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Old 08-26-2010, 06:17 PM
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Default Let's stop using photobucket on the forums.

Photobucket is probably the worst image hosting site. What use is an image host with a bandwidth limit? I use imgur for all my image hosting needs.

http://imgur.com/

There are other's out there that work the same way, that's just the one I happen to use.

Edit:

http://tinypic.com/

http://imageshack.us/

Imageshack can be unreliable sometimes, but not as unreliable as photobucket.

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Old 08-26-2010, 06:52 PM
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So I should just trash my whole photobucket account based on the fact that you don't like it?

Yeah, not gonna happen.
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Old 08-26-2010, 07:06 PM
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So I should just trash my whole photobucket account based on the fact that you don't like it?

Yeah, not gonna happen.
No, that's not what I suggested at all. Imgur and other sites like it are purpose built for hosting images intended for forum posts. Photobucket is not. All I'm asking is that people use one of those sites for posting images on this forum, or any other forum. It's frustrating to scroll through a picture thread and see half of the posts made of multiple placeholder thumbnails from photobucket notifying me that the user's bandwidth allowance has been exceeded.
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Old 08-26-2010, 09:27 PM
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its a choice of preference
you can't tell the entire forum not to use something
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Old 08-26-2010, 09:47 PM
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its a choice of preference
you can't tell the entire forum not to use something
I'm not making demands of anybody. I can't imagine why anyone would intentionally choose photobucket over any other site to host an image post, so I assume it's a matter of not knowing about alternatives. Obviously it's not something that can be enforced, but if it could be acknowledged as an official preference it might be helpful.

I know on the somethingawful forums they state in the rules that it is preferred that any image host besides photobucket is used (a preference not a hard and fast rule). Before imgur was launched the users there created waffleimages as an alternative to photobucket, but I can't advocate for that here because it's run on the private servers of SA forum users specifically for images posted to SA.

I bring this up because of this thread.

http://forum.imfdb.org/showthread.php?t=216

A whole bunch images there weren't showing up. Whether or not the images load from photobucket is variable depending on how many people are viewing the thread.
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Old 08-27-2010, 12:00 AM
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its a choice of preference
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But it's POI. He manages to say something 'douchy' every three days or so!
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Old 08-27-2010, 12:58 AM
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okay, i feel this should be pointed out POI, just so you dont piss me off.

1. i fucking hate your guts right now
2. i have a feeling that 3/4 of this forum hates your guts right now
3. some days i will have a short temper, it depends what mood im in.
4. you have already been banned, lets not go through this again
5. if you are corrected, dont be a dick, just accept it and shut the hell up
6. dont be a smartass
7. keep unnecesary comments to yourself

that is all. leave me alone
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Old 08-27-2010, 02:14 AM
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Guess what, they banned all the argentinian users (including myself) a month ago:

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In July 2010 TinyPic blocked access to the site to users from Argentina, cutting off thousands of users to access, view or delete their stored images. No statement has been released from TinyPic nor any user questions replied, instead a sign appears upon accessing the website inviting user to join PhotoBucket, but without giving any solutions for the user' stored images and videos
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Old 08-27-2010, 02:17 AM
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Guess what, they banned all the argentinian users (including myself) a month ago:
Because fuck Argentina, that's why
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Old 08-27-2010, 02:35 AM
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Because fuck Argentina, that's why
Looks like Tinypic doesn´t like argies. But, as far as I know, they are blocking us because nobody wants to pay for a Premium Account.
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