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Monday, July 3
Photobucket is a dick
Thirteen years of work
TLDR; Photobucket, which started as a free third party image host, no longer allows third party hosting for less than $400/yr

13 years ago, I discovered the magical world of computer graphics and web design. I used photobucket to house every image creation of mine - artwork, designs and photos. From shitty fanart to resources for the public, photobucket was what I used to show my work to the world. The past decade of my memories and my history is in photobucket. Everything that made me who I am, I religiously documented in photobucket.

Today, without any warning, I was alerted to this.

  



My images were being held for ransom unless I upgraded to their paid plan. 3rd party linking to photobucket images was disabled for everybody, after being free for 10+ years. It was a rude shock for everyone.  It was not just my blog. Many forums and resource sites that held precious memories and information are scrambling to fix what photobucket did to us.

They screwed over their paying customers too (I was once one). They have multi-tiered plans, but the only plan that allowed you to display 3rd party images cost..

$400 A YEAR.

 
I tried signing up, as I didn't mind paying, but look at this absurdity!


They went from free to $400 a year, holding all our images ransom.

My storage, which was just 20% full a few days ago, suddenly became over the limit at 150%. They also decreased storage by 5x?

This blog. My website. My neopets adoptable page. Everything has been replaced. I don't know how to update 13 years worth of images in my old sites - my history is important to me (as much as lots of it is shit) and it breaks my heart to see that most of my old blog posts don't make sense anymore. Luckily recently I've been directly hosting images on Blogger.

I wanted to write about my Seoul trip, after not posting here for so long, but now my top priority is to fix this. I'll think of a way and switch to a new host as fast as I can. Thank you all for sticking around.

 me trying on korean glasses

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Edit: What the hell, I can't even access my account to migrate my albums.


I'm doing it manually now. I used incognito mode on Chrome, right clicked on my blog images and selected "Open image in a new tab". I'll restore them shortly!

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