{"id":8928,"date":"2019-12-19T07:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2021-05-11T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:13:14","slug":"to-hell-with-photobucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/to-hell-with-photobucket\/","title":{"rendered":"To hell with Photobucket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ih1.redbubble.net\/image.34131556.6088\/ap,550x550,16x12,1,transparent,t.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"103\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it, this was the last straw. I&#8217;ve used Photobucket for years, but after that absurd price hike they attempted in 2017, and with all the blackmailing attempts, I went to Flickr. Flickr is a pretty neat photo hosting service, but the fact that they scramble file names after you load them makes manually writing a photo address impossible. And, they&#8217;re photo browser stinks, it&#8217;s too convoluted to manage your photos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then PB reconsidered their stance and things seemed to go back to normal, so in 2018 I went back. Still, there was a LOT of downtime last year. However, for the last month or so, every single time I log on, I get an annoying message that I&#8217;m over my bandwidth quota. And if I don&#8217;t upgrade my account they&#8217;ll shut me down. According to my account data, I&#8217;m using about 80% of my bandwidth, so this sounds like they&#8217;re trying to bully me to upgrade. And as the cherry on top of the cake, today their servers have been down all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo that&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m done. <strong>SCREW PHOTOBUCKET<\/strong>. I&#8217;m migrating all my photos elsewhere and this is the last time they see my money.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s it, this was the last straw. I&#8217;ve used Photobucket for years, but after that absurd price hike they attempted in 2017, and with all the blackmailing attempts, I went to Flickr. Flickr is a pretty neat photo hosting service, but the fact that they scramble file names after you load them makes manually writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/to-hell-with-photobucket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To hell with Photobucket&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-miscellaneous","post_format-post-format-aside"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8930,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}