Photobucket

[gaz45]

Hi all I am having problems uploading photos to photobucket it reaches 90% then freezes wether I try 1 photo or more as anyone else had any problems like this and how was it remedied
Thanks

[JonMW]

I've also had this problem for some time. Only thing I do is click on libery when it freezes, and usually the pictures are uploaded anyway. I think it's Photobucket pausing the progress bar and waiting for the ad to come on. Anytime the ad comes on for me the progress bar goes to 100% when it doesn't it only goes to like 85 or 90% and stops but the pictures are still uploaded.

[Paul]

Yeah its been playing up for a few days, they are uploading but like jon says it freezes near the end

[gaz45]

cheers guys

[burnie43]

It takes me longer to upload and share pics on here than it does to build a kit......and it takes me forever to build a kit !!! Lol
What a pain it is !!
cheers
Mark

[chief5437]

Been having probs for a while now. The iPad and iPhone apps crash after opening a pic. And website is deathly slow. Works eventually but then uploads six copies of each pic, lol!

[Joesdad]

Been having probs for a while now. The iPad and iPhone apps crash after opening a pic. And website is deathly slow. Works eventually but then uploads six copies of each pic, lol!

Same here Chiefy, I'm glad it's not just me hate it

[chief5437]

Are there any other alternatives that do the same thing? Main thing being automatically resizing for the forum?

[chief5437]

Been having probs for a while now. The iPad and iPhone apps crash after opening a pic. And website is deathly slow. Works eventually but then uploads six copies of each pic, lol!

Same here Chiefy, I'm glad it's not just me hate it

Just tried again. So far it's uploaded each pic 15 times!

[Coen]

Here is what photobucket had to say when I emailed them to find out what the hell was up...

Hello,
A few days ago photobucket was offline for a few hours to perform maintenance. Before that I had almost no trouble using my account from my PC, IPad, or my ITouch - uploading photos, managing the content, or editing images.
Ever since the maintenance period I can't upload more than one or two images at a time, and most of the time the upload fails.
I can't delete any images from previous uploads, however, this morning I was able to delete a few but it took 2 hours for them to delete them. A message telling me to hang on this will take a while hangs on the screen and nothing appears to be happening.
All of the pages open and close very slowly now as well, it never did this before either.
This never happened before the maintenance period. I've changed no settings, added no new devices nor altered my account. I'm all paid up and I still have 27% of my storage left unused.
This issue exists on all of the machines that I use so it is not limited to one particular machine.

I'm currently using Windows 10 with Google Chrome as the browser (version 47.0.2526.111m) I also use Safari on my Ipad and Itouch (both are running the most up to date version of the OS)
I have a fibreOp connection with just under 200Mbps download and 55Mbps upload.
The files that I am trying to upload are simple ,JPG that I've uploaded almost 17000 of already using the same devices to create the images that I've always used. (an Itouch)
I would really appreciate any assistance with fixing this as I have considerable time and effort invested in my account and I wish to continue using it.
In it's current state it is unusable.
Thank you for your help.

What I thought was a very detailed account of what I was experiencing, I expected a very helpful reply... silly me.

This is what they replied with... most helpful...

Hi (the first part of my email address... so personal ),

This is an auto-response from Robert, the Photobucket robot, to your email regarding Google and your account information. The following information may help to recover your account, and will provide further details for account privacy and search engine indexing. If you are still unable to find and/or access your account, please reply back to this email and a Photobucket Support Representative will contact you shortly.

If you found your Photobucket account in a Google search but do not have access to your account, search here for step by step instructions on how to recover it: https://secure.photobucket.com/forgot

For information regarding why your account or name is searchable on Google, go here: http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us ... gle-Search

Please reply to this email if you have any other questions. The Photobucket Support Team will get to your ticket as soon as possible!

Robert
(The Photobucket robot)

I replied by copying and pasting my original email and adding...

Ps... Robert was useless and wasted my time.

Then they replied with something that resembled and answer... vague... but better than Robert.

Hi,

Our engineering team has been working to find a fix for the recent issues with your account. Good news! We have deployed a fix that seems to have solved the problem. We will continue to monitor the site to ensure its success. If you are still having issues, please let us know so that we can continue to look into it.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this caused! As a thank you we would like to offer $20 off your next print purchase.
You can find our Print Shop here: photobucket.com/print
Please use the code THANKYOU2016.

Again, thank you for being loyal users while we worked through this!

Sarah@Photobucket Support

Have a question about something else? Our help site is packed with articles to get the help you need quickly. Click this link to access our help site - http://support.photobucket.com/home.


She was right... it worked... for a little while .. then went all wonky again.
I wrote her back and she said...

Hi,

Thank you for your continued patience while we work through the issues that many users are experiencing. The issue is complex and a full resolution is still in the works. You should be able to successfully upload content now, albeit with slower upload speed than usual. You may also need to refresh the page after upload to see the content. We will continue to work towards a full resolution.

As always, your feedback is invaluable. Please respond with any continued issues you run into with as much detail as possible.

Thanks for your patience!

Sarah@Photobucket Support

So... that's what they have to say about it all.

[chief5437]

So, typical useless answers then! I've just tried asking on their Facebook page, waiting out!

[TheSmoo]

i'm finding as Paul has said refreshing the page when it hangs usually reveals a few photos that worked, doing them individually worked for a wee while yesterday but it's still being a pain

[mannloon]

I posted pics a few days ago in a thread and when photobucket wouldn't work i just uploaded to imgur. It's not as much of a gallery type thing but if you just need stuff up it works. I've been using photobucket since 2004 and honestly it's garbage even when it is working. It used to be much more streamlined and had no ads, but due to heavy exploitation by certain types online it eventually had to get quite convoluted. It's current form is built on making money from ads and preventing back door image scanning. It needs to be usurped.

[Avgas]

I've given up on it, I'm spending more time getting pictures up and onto the forum than I am modelling, it's getting daft. When it finally decides to work there are multiple copies of the same photo. Try and delete them and you get 'Hang on, this may take a while'. Utter garbage.

[Joesdad]

Agreed...it should be put out of our misery.

[Coen]

I have near tens of thousands of photos hosted on it, and a tonne of them are embedded here.
In fact every photo that I have ever posted here is hosted on photobucket.
So I have no choice but to stick with them. If they go down then all of my work here on the forum goes with it.

[chief5437]

Just tried imgur but I can't see anywhere to get the img link so it posts the pic rather than the link. Same for Flickr.

[Gav0909]

Imageshack is an alternative I think, however whenever I knew people who used that, they often ended up using PB, so I assume Imageshack is rubbish.

I was having all the aforementioned issues this evening. A stuck message when deleting multiple uploaded images, and uploads stuck at 90% or failing.

[Coen]

Looks like they're doing something big over there in PB land.. they've been in maintenance mode all day.

[RobBye]

I've noticed, on many forums, images shared from Photobucket aren't displaying. I hope all those links aren't permanently broken...

[Coen]

I just got this from them...

Sarah (Photobucket Support)
Jan 29, 10:06 AM

Photobucket servers are experiencing outages and are undergoing emergency maintenance. Our system is starting to come back online. You may still see intermittent maintenance. We do not have an ETA on when full resolution will happen. We will keep you updated as soon as more information becomes available. We truly apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience!

Sarah@Photobucket Support

[Twokidsnosleep]

Nothing as entertaining as a dangling cat gif
Hope it comes back online soon, otherwise I might actually have to do some work

[chief5437]

This is getting annoying now! Got a load of updates to do, and can't even log in anymore!

[Twokidsnosleep]

I am in the same boat, how am I supposed to live without posting photos and babbling about the work I have done
It is torture

[chief5437]

I am in the same boat, how am I supposed to live without posting photos and babbling about the work I have done
It is torture

That's so true! I've got the best updates in history to upload, which means I'll win ALL the group builds, but now I'll be a loser. And it's all photobucket 's fault, lol!

[Twokidsnosleep]

Ha Ha, but I have gone one worse
Now I have drifted off onto E Bay and bought a F1 Kit....I blame this all on Photobucket
I should be wasting my time posting photos instead of internet shopping

[chief5437]

Lol! That's it, I'm blaming all my future purchases on photobucket, cheers buddy!

[Avgas]

Back online apparently.

Just tried it and it appears to be working normally.

[MarkVerploeg]

Yep it works again
i just posted a update without any problems

[Coen]

Mine is all tickity boo too!
It's funny... The forum was really quiet while photo bucket was down... Hardly any posts in the down time.
The unread posts for me only showed five or ten active threads all day.
Now there a four pages.
Goes to show you how important photo bucket is I guess.
Eggs in one basket comes to mind... I wonder if there is another image hosting site that is as good, better, or close enough?
I have over 16000 pics hosted on photo bucket and most of those are embedded here. If it goes down or if something happens to my account then that is a lot of work that will go poof.
I'm sure that I'm not alone.

[mannloon]

You could always just upload them via an ftp client to a web server you rent. I think my .com when I had it was $40-50 a year through godaddy with space and hosting.

[Coen]

I had one of those for storing my digital books and research photos a year or so ago, but Google drive was much easier to use and so I switched to that.
The thing was full of jargon and techno babble an I soon got bored of translating all that crap. I've never heard of my.com
I was thinking something that was as easy to use as photo bucket or google drive.

[Twokidsnosleep]

My photo bucket account is out again today with "unexpected errors" Can't sign in.
How the heck am I supposed to kill some down time at work fooling around rather than actually working????
The sheer inconsideration of some websites

[Coen]

Mine been working fine for a couple of days now.
I even got an email from them explaining what happened ... That that they were sorry... A 75% off coupon for some cramp that I have no use for .... And an extra six months of free subscription.
I wasn't expecting that.