Go to hell Photobucket
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by I.R. Brainiac | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I had always preferrred Photobucket in the beginning because clicking on a photo in a post didnt first send you to an inbetween page like some other image hosting sites.
No limit on resolution if you stayed under 1 mb.Worked great.
Then I noticed my screens were looking bad and thought I was using Photoshop wrong or something.
Turns out photobucket started recompressing all your images to save bandwidth even tho you stayed under the maximum rez and size criteria.
No warning,dosnt matter if its a free account or pro...just ruined all your images.
Sounds like the netflix effect to me.
Screw you Photobucket.
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Reply #22 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:06 PM
Just use Dropbox. You can dump whatever you want into your Public folder and it won't be altered.
Reply #23 Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:44 AM
Dropbox is great. Unfortunately the 2GB limit on the free account gets used up way too quickly, I have found 
Reply #24 Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:38 AM
so it seems, these type of companies get you inticed, give us maginal service and hope that we will upgrade to their pay service.
I think that the ability to remove graphics is a major plus and since my graphics are usually only for forum posts I gotta stay with photobucket, until something better comes along.
just the none smart people ha ha Just kidding gmc2
MS probably has me registered over the years many times, so I guessed I probably do, just not proud of it.
Reply #25 Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:55 AM
Skydrive is linkable, or Dropbox might be a good solution.
Reply #26 Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:39 PM
cool skydrive is Linkable like Imageshack where you get a code and can put it here and it will show and image ?
ok and yes Skydrive is FREE forgot to put that in on my other reply
@ gmc2
all .MSN (Pay) .hotmail (Free) .Live (Free) are only good if you check them at lest every 3 months that's the down side..
what do you not like about them, just curious.
I have
MSN, Live, Road Runner, Yahoo, Gmail, seen AOL no way don't want
Had Hotmail forgot password so had to make a new account with WinCustomize so been here a lot longer then it shows.
Reply #27 Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:26 PM
I'll check out Skydrive next...for now its back to Imageshack...I dont seem to be getting the ads detour anymore...tho that might be Firefox's doing,I dont think so.
I googled hell and photobucket and this post was 3rd from the top...woohoo! small victory! 
Reply #28 Thursday, July 22, 2010 2:50 PM
what do you not like about them, just curious.
I don't like creating accounts and giving away private data to companies that either use or sell that data for targeted advertisements. When I do, it's because there is a need for it and not a want. I provide my personal data to SD and they have proven to be a trusted site. However, I didn't like it when I had to create a off site (third party) account in order to show pictures within the forums, but I did cause a picture is worth....
AND, just because it makes perfectly good business sense doesn't mean I have to like it.
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Reply #21 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:00 PM
had 2 accounts for many years.....never had a slow issue with them....and never timed out....