Photo storage other than photobucket?

[Ben@SpeedTech]

Anybody else having issues with photobucket lately? It's so clogged up with garbage ads it barely loads for me even with 60 M internet, and it often locks up and crashes. What a waste of time it's become.

What are some of the better free alternatives for photo storage?

[XLexusTech]

Amazon s3

https://aws.amazon.com/free/?sc_channel=PS&sc_campaign=acquisition_US&sc_publisher=google&sc_medium=s3_b&sc_content=sitelink&sc_detail=amazon%20s3&sc_category=s3&sc_segment=cloud_storage_with_s3&sc_matchtype=e&sc_country=US&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!101664432522!e!!g!!amazon%20s3&ef_id=Vr4w-AAABL9J5NAb:20160831003934:s

[Frank.J]

Picasa Good one

[SSLance]

I used to use Google plus, then they changed their formatting and hot linking quit working easily...so I went back to photobucket and have the same experience as you Ben, it is frustrating for sure but I guess we get what we pay for. I have so many pics on photobucket though, it'll be hard to leave and go anywhere else...have seriously thought about becoming a "paid" ad free member justs to see how much faster it gets.

[ricer]

we do shutterfly. It used to be Kodak gallery but was bought out. Have been using that for at 4-5yrs now. www.shuttefly.com

[Ben@SpeedTech]

Thanks for the input folks. Looks like Picasa has been absorbed by Google. Still gotta check that one out. Shutterfly appears to be free with unlimited uploads while Amazon is free for 12 months and has a pay scale according to usage.

Ironically I got a feedback email from photobucket today. I told them the problems associated with the ads ruin the website experience and their customers will be leaving as a result. They probably already know that and are hoping folks will pay the fee to make the ads go away rather than leave, sort of forcing us into to paying. That's pretty crappy customer service. It is what it is I guess.

[Flash68]

Ironically I got a feedback email from photobucket today. I told them the problems associated with the ads ruin the website experience and their customers will be leaving as a result. They probably already know that and are hoping folks will pay the fee to make the ads go away rather than leave, sort of forcing us into to paying. That's pretty crappy customer service. It is what it is I guess.

Attract enough people and get them hooked and liking your product/service for free, and then eventually monetize it via ads or paid user subscriptions. It's a pretty standard business model since the advent of the internet economy.

[Ben@SpeedTech]

I like photobucket because I can create individual albums for each car or subject and I can organize the pics' order in several different ways. I prefer organizing by file name since I name them like "silver GTO 001, silver GTO 002...". that way I can add more photos later, like from the shop guys' pics, and have them all remain in build chronological order. Creating a link to share is easy. Actually using the website for now is awful unless you pay for it I guess.

Shutterfly does have ability to create specific albums, however organizing within albums by date uploaded is the only option. Creating a link to share is easy. This program seems super easy and clean, and it being cost and ad free and unlimited storage is really appealing. They must make their money by having photo based products available- prints, mugs, etc.

Google photos has a weird way of organizing. It looks like all your photos are in one inclusive album, I don't see a way to create an individual album for each car. Their search is interesting though, the program is able to identify different things within photos, for example I did a search of my photos on tires and it only opened the pics that showed tires on the car. Did the same with a chassis search and it only opened pics of the chassis. The search tool isn't perfect as it didn't bring up all the photos that had tires, so if you're looking for a specific pic in a large album of pics it may take some trial and error. Creating a link to share is easy.

Hope this info helps others.

[Ben@SpeedTech]

Attract enough people and get them hooked and liking your product/service for free, and then eventually monetize it via ads or paid user subscriptions. It's a pretty standard business model since the advent of the internet economy.

That makes business sense, but in this case earning revenue from the companies that post ads which ultimately kill website performance and then charging customers money to alleviate the problem by avoiding the ads that companies pay for, screws everyone. :rolleyes:

[ironworks]

That makes business sense, but in this case earning revenue from the companies that post ads which ultimately kill website performance and then charging customers money to alleviate the problem by avoiding the ads that companies pay for, screws everyone. :rolleyes:

Its doesn't make business sense at some point it will fail to exist. Ain't no such thing as free.

Photobucket uploads way faster the drop box.

[bretcopsey]

My wife and I have been using Walgreens online photo storage.

https://www.walgreens.com/login.jsp

Unlimited photo and albums. Can save, sort etc. as Ben described. Easy enough to use and fits what we need. Never tried posting a direct photo link though.

Oldest son's first truck:
http://photo2.walgreens.com/walgreens/slideshow/AlbumID=30810977002/PictureID=1109181244002/a=6426541002_6426541002/otsc=SHR/otsi=SPIClink/COBRAND_NAME=walgreens/

Seems to work?

[califconstruct]

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I dunno.. I pay the Photobucket fee, to have more storage.. and still get all the ****ty ads that jack it all up.

I guess you have to get the higher pkg...:bang:

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[BMR Sales]

Anybody else having issues with photobucket lately? It's so clogged up with garbage ads it barely loads for me even with 60 M internet, and it often locks up and crashes. What a waste of time it's become.

What are some of the better free alternatives for photo storage?

Yeah, for the last couple of months, PB has sucked!

[SSLance]

Do you guys having issues with photobucket run ad blocking software? I do and have wondered if the long delay when it seems like nothing is happening is because of my AdBlock app.

For what it's worth, once the initial long delay happens and whatever ad is in cue finally pops up...I can make it go away and then it all seems to work fine. it's just that initial delay when you are trying to post a quick picture up that is such a pain.

[dontlifttoshift]

https://www.smugmug.com/plans

It's so cheap and easy to use, why beat your head against the wall? The pictures never move, they are easy to link and imbed, no ads, more importantly no waiting for ads to load, and a great app so the pictures are always available if I have a signal.

All of the for 3 bucks a month.......a dime a day.

[SSLance]

I'd pay Smugmug long before I'd pay PB or any of the others...I just may look into that. Thanks Donny...

[Sieg]

I've been using SmugMug for 6+ years now and have been very satisfied. No ads, no invasive up selling, good speed, great mobile access and uploading, no security breaches. Well worth the small annual fee IMO.

FWIW - I currently have 64,199 photos on their site.

If you're interested here's a discounted sign up link: https://secure.smugmug.com/signup?Coupon=achuJuglTx7pQ


https://www.smugmug.com/about/

[SSLance]

I'm in Scott...Thanks for the discount referral...

My first hotlink image posted hosted on SmugMug

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Monte-Carlo-Barney/i-2t5GHwr/0/O/DSC07065.jpg

[Sieg]

I'm in Scott...Thanks for the discount referral...

Awesome! Hope you enjoy it as much as I have. :thumbsup:

[SSLance]

So far it is fantastic... need to get to my laptop where the majority of my photos are stored to do some massive uploading...

Do you use the app on your phone to upload phone pics? and if so how clunky is it and what kind of resources does it hog?

[D-$]

If you're going to pay I would look at using Office 365. It would provide you 1tb of storage and MS Office, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.

[Sieg]

So far it is fantastic... need to get to my laptop where the majority of my photos are stored to do some massive uploading...

Do you use the app on your phone to upload phone pics? and if so how clunky is it and what kind of resources does it hog?

I upload all the images off my phone periodically to SmugMug, upload speeds are very good and I shoot max image size on my Galaxy S7. I also use the app as a gallery to show people images and it's fast considering the 64K images in my galleries. Very pleased with the app, no performance impact noticed whether using Verizon or wifi connection.

[Sonar Chief]

Just to throw my 0.2 cents in I use ImageShack ($2.83 /month) and have never seen an ad once! I don't really use it to sort albums and all that just store pics to upload to Lat-G.

https://imageshack.com/signup/lmlvdHV8g4eOnWFmaZeZlZiWmZmbbpVwbpVomJOUk5PJamKamJ dxm8dtcA This is the referral link to ImageShack should anyone want to sign up.

Michael

[XLexusTech]

Not sure if I said this in my previous post on this but amazin s3 is free for up to 5gb....

The site in my signature is hosted there. It's very easy to use after watching the tutorial of following the how to

[BMR Sales]

PhotoBucket seems to be better this week - I wonder if they were doing software changes? It's still not great but better than last week

[Ben@SpeedTech]

Thanks for all the input everyone, hopefully we can all benefit from it. :thumbsup: