Photobucket

Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:04 am

What is wrong with Photobucket these days

I can't sign in, so I've tried forgot my password, the page don;t load properly, finally got it to do so put in the user name etc get you've been sent an email.......................no email 3 hours later

YouTube · Post by **NorthernModeller** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:51 pm

Don't know what to tell you. never had a problem with it myself. only the fact it runs a little slow sometimes.

Post by **ElCapitan** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:58 pm

I had a similar problem with the password reset email. I requested it this morning, still nothing! Since then I've managed to figure out my password fortunately!

Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:59 pm

ElCapitan wrote:I had a similar problem with the password reset email. I requested it this morning, still nothing! Since then I've managed to figure out my password fortunately!

Glad it's not just me then, cheers mate.

Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:37 pm

Managed to get on using another computer that I'd not signed out of, can't now save changes to pictures cropping etc, just keep getting a message across the top of the page say "hmm something gone wrong your changes haven't been saved try again now" or words to that effect

Still not got a reset email either it's hopeless

Post by **ElCapitan** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:49 pm

Have you tried using Flickr instead?

Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:40 pm

ElCapitan wrote:Have you tried using Flickr instead?

No mate that's Yahoo isn't it, didn't they have a s serious breach of security recently or at least it was only owned up to recently?

Post by **ElCapitan** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:48 pm

Yeah they did, but i shouldn't imagine they'll risk that happening again

Post by **Plopper** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:40 pm

So on a bit of a side question, can we use anything other than Photobucket to upload pictures from here?

Post by **digger303** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:52 am

Plopper wrote:So on a bit of a side question, can we use anything other than Photobucket to upload pictures from here?

good question !

Post by **ElCapitan** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:37 am

Yes, Flickr does the same job! You can see that Skypainter used it on his Monogram Phantom thread.

Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:53 am

Photoshop appears to be working again today, all very odd!

Post by **wookiee76** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:47 pm

There has been a relatively new update to photobucket and i think it introduced more bugs and issues than it fixed.

Post by **Plopper** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 9:51 pm

I was thinking of using my Google account as that already has all me pictures on!

Post by **Su35** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:56 am

I've been trying to upload a few pics onto pb for a few days now, and it just hangs up and never completes! Driving me insane.

Post by **chalkyw** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:29 pm

Photobucket is just soooooo slow and it turns putting a post on here in to an all night 'adventure'

Post by **RobertK** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:33 am

If you dont like photobucket you can use any host that allows hotlinking really.
I used my personal webspace without any problems.

Post by **Paul** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:11 pm

I use photobukcet with no problems at all, there are other hosting sites you can use

Post by **Su35** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:23 pm

I used to have no issue with pb in the past until late. Now given up and switched to flikr.

Post by **GarethCrossland** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:24 pm

I had a problem signing in to Photobucket. I hadn't used it in a while and I thought I might have changed the password and forgotten it. I tried the reset password, but it still didn't work. I had to contact support to get them to sort it out. As I try it now the site can't be reached! Oh well...

Post by **Plopper** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:04 pm

Just testing Google Photos to see what happens!!!

https://goo.gl/photos/w4us99XYHdes81pA6

EDIT, so Google Photos is a no as it doesn't let you hotlink?

Post by **Plopper** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:32 pm

Just testing Photobucket on my phone. I'm a VERY late adopter of mobile phones. In fact I've only had one since June. So if I post a picture of the family pet by mistake I apologise.

Edited as I deleted the other picture.

So it looks like I'll be using Photobucket after all.

Post by **Lysus** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 5:25 pm

It's not bad as far as it goes, they do perform regular maintenance but it rarely results in a total take down, just makes it slow for a while.

Post by **wookiee76** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:15 pm

Seems to be back to its old self for me now, thankfully.

Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:16 pm

Yep, I got a message from them saying they where doing updates.

Post by **dogsbody** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:59 pm

Was just there and they're down for maintenance.

Chris

Post by **OneSmallStep1966** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 7:07 pm

I saw a message on there earlier today saying they were dealing with a DDOS attack so them being down right now might have something to do with that?

Post by **DBMiller** » Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:11 pm

I haven't been able to log onto Photobucket since yesterday morning. One of the problems I've had in the past was it loading popups (slowly!) behind my main screen so I can't see them right away. That slowed it down a lot. Now, nothing.

Post by **Lysus** » Wed Oct 26, 2016 3:48 pm

DBMiller wrote:I haven't been able to log onto Photobucket since yesterday morning. One of the problems I've had in the past was it loading popups (slowly!) behind my main screen so I can't see them right away. That slowed it down a lot. Now, nothing.

If you use Chrome or Firefox you should try uBlock Origin, it kills ads and pop-ups. (Embedded ads like those on ISM here are safe, but they aren't the kind that kill your browser speed anyway).

For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... iagm?hl=en

For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... ck-origin/

For Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

If you're an IE user (or is it Edge now?) you should consider trying either browser out--I prefer Chrome myself. It's a bit of an adjustment, but IE has slowly copied those two a lot over the last decade so it won't be that drastic a difference to you. I think others have ported it for IE/Edge and Safari, but not the uBlock people themselves so I'll let you look up the extensions yourself.

You can also "whitelist" sites that you don't mind letting ads show through, and with two clicks you can disable it. For YouTube users who depend upon ad revenue and don't have a Patreon, I sometimes do this so I don't deprive them of income.

Post by **DBMiller** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:29 pm

Thanks for that info!

Post by **Plopper** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:48 pm

Off line again for me can't see my photos in posts and can't access my account!

Post by **WMH** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 7:55 pm

"Message from Photobucket Support:

Update: During the planned maintenance last night, we encountered an unforeseen issue. Our team is continuing to work on resolving that issue, and we will provide another update as soon as possible. Rest assured that your information and content is safe. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.

(last updated November 4, 2016 – 2:50PM MST)"

Photobucket should be back on line NOW Sunday Morning . I am again able to view the images again.

Post by **Plopper** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 7:58 pm

Yeah I can log back in to my account now.

Post by **privatepete** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:33 pm

Can anyone help I have given up with Photobucket (can not upload any pic from mobile to pc to forum) so gone over to Flicker but how do you get pics from Flicker to the forum.I'm thinking of stopping post all together it's just not worth the hassle anymore.
Pete

Post by **ForbesHutton** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:51 pm

Photobucket theft.

On Oct 30 photobucket automatically withdrew money from my paypal account for a years subscription renewal.

On Nove 2 photobucket sent me an email:
We've experienced a problem when trying to automatically renew your Plus subscription. The Plus subscription payment did not process, most likely due to expired payment information.
here.
Click "Stop my recurring payments" located just below your account expiration date.
Now click "Restart my recurring payments," located in the same spot.
Photobucket Support Team.

Since they had withdrawn the money 3 days earlier, I ignored this.

Nov 8 photobucket reverted my account to the limited free version and also blocked access to the limited version for 24 hours.

Nov 8 I sent them a "service request through their system (good luck trying to find an email or phone number for these thieves), with the paypal transaction number and a screen clip of the transaction record from my paypal account that says clearly that the money was for photobucket.

So far I've heard nothing. The account has not been restored nor the money refunded, at this point photobucket has, by the Canadian criminal standards, committed fraud. If I don't hear anything within the next 24 hours, I'm going to open a dispute with paypal and file a report with the RCMP.

Post by **digger303** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:15 pm

could it be the result of them being hacked and the thieves now have your money. All they would have had to do was change the account details and your money and others would flow to their accounts.

Post by **ForbesHutton** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:24 pm

digger303 wrote:could it be the result of them being hacked and the thieves now have your money. All they would have had to do was change the account details and your money and others would flow to their accounts.

There's nothing on the internet about pb being hacked, and if they were they'd have responded by now. If they were hacked, the cost of my subscription (which I'll get back from paypal anyway) is nothing compared the the settlement of the failure to secure my data.

Post by **digger303** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:46 am

Sometimes companies are to scared to admit to anything because Joe Public won't ever use them again.

Post by **Stokesy44** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 9:37 am

Gotta love the internet.

Great quote from The West Wing when Leo laments the demise of NASA after the moon landings.

Leo - My generation never got the future it was promised. Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped.

Josh - The personal computer.

Leo - A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography? Where's my jet pack? My colonies on the Moon?

Post by **ForbesHutton** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:01 am

Well it took them a week to respond. They restored the full account. I'm sure the PayPal dispute I opened on Friday lit a fire under them.
So if you do have a problem with photobucket be aware that the customer support is basically non-existent, a week to respond and there is no phone number I can find anywhere on the internet that will be answered (the one they provide to paypal goes to a recording telling to to send an email to service@photobucket).

Post by **digger303** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 6:03 am

ForbesHutton wrote:Well it took them a week to respond. They restored the full account. I'm sure the PayPal dispute I opened on Friday lit a fire under them.
So if you do have a problem with photobucket be aware that the customer support is basically non-existent, a week to respond and there is no phone number I can find anywhere on the internet that will be answered (the one they provide to paypal goes to a recording telling to to send an email to service@photobucket).

Yes so many want your money and little else, last thing they want to do is be engaged with customers.