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Posted: 7/6/2017 12:29:49 AM EDT

Due to the current brouhaha wrt photobucket, I've seen a lot of people announce a jump to imgur.

I wonder how many have taken the time to read the TOS?

http://imgur.com/tos

People who produce their own content and might be concerned about its use might want to read the section titled "Intellectual Property".

Just a snippet - "...With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content. To the extent that you delete any such file or content from the public portions of our site, the license you grant to Imgur pursuant to the preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content Imgur has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense..."

As with other "free" services on the web, it is offered as a free service because you and the info they can use/ collect and market/ sell are the ~~product~~ commodity.

I've been using PBase for years. It's not too expensive, but over the years it has had problems with service interruptions and a lack of communication from the owners. I've started looking elsewhere, and am currently looking at SmugMug and Zenfolio.

So... what are others here doing for web hosting of their images?

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Posted: 7/6/2017 4:38:34 AM EDT

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Flickr Pro has been my goto for a long time. Not sure how much longer now that Verizon owned it, but we'll see how that shakes out.

Posted: 7/6/2017 10:35:14 AM EDT

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Same here. Any problems I've encountered were relatively minor (interrupted service, etc.), and were corrected within a day or so. Overall, I'm happy with it, and will stay there unless something "catastrophic" happens.

Can't remember the details, but it seems like SmugMug (or maybe it was Zenfolio?) had some issues not too long ago.

Posted: 7/6/2017 11:06:22 AM EDT

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I had a yahoo email from back when they started, and a flickr account from when they started. Until last year. After one of the breaches was announced in the media, I tried to do a update of password and security settings. They asked for info that hadn't been required at my previous regular update, and locked my account. After multiple emails back and forth they finally agreed to close my accounts. They never let me back into them. Doubt that I'll go back to flickr.

Posted: 7/6/2017 11:15:02 AM EDT

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Same here. Any problems I've encountered were relatively minor (interrupted service, etc.), and were corrected within a day or so. Overall, I'm happy with it, and will stay there unless something "catastrophic" happens.

Can't remember the details, but it seems like SmugMug (or maybe it was Zenfolio?) had some issues not too long ago.

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Same here. Any problems I've encountered were relatively minor (interrupted service, etc.), and were corrected within a day or so. Overall, I'm happy with it, and will stay there unless something "catastrophic" happens.

Can't remember the details, but it seems like SmugMug (or maybe it was Zenfolio?) had some issues not too long ago.

I've happy with it, overall, and haven't felt the need for an immediate change. But the service interruptions seem to affect users differently depending on the problem. I've had multiple-week periods of time where images wouldn't show or link, and we might get a "yeah, we're working on it" response at some point, and eventually things work again. The Pentax K-1 has been on the street for over a year, and some of us have been using it for 12 months or more, and it is still not in the list of cameras, even after multiple requests. Others have complained of the same thing. There are other issues and complaints in the forums that remain unanswered. It's almost as if the site has been put on autopilot and the owners only do something when things go wrong. Not an immediate huge deal, but it makes me wonder about continued long-term operation of the site.

Hadn't heard of issues at the other two, I'll have to see if I can find the info.

Posted: 7/6/2017 11:23:24 AM EDT

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Seems like I read about it over on the Cafe. Or maybe I'm just losing my mind.

Posted: 7/6/2017 11:27:40 AM EDT

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Probably not, I don't spend as much time there since my Nikon stuff is gone. I'm going to go do some reading.

Posted: 7/6/2017 1:16:04 PM EDT

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I've started looking elsewhere, and am currently looking at SmugMug and Zenfolio.

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My photo web site is hosted at SmugMug (currently a Power plan account). They've been flawless for me for the past ~3 years. Even their basic plan ($48/yr) is reasonable considering they allow unlimited photo uploads (including raw files). I use this site for my main storage/sharing host.

FWIW, I also have a free Flickr account mainly for another avenue of exposure. (ha!)

I stopped using Photobucket (paid account) years before the most recent wave of anger/frustration. SmugMug offers better service for less money (at least that was the case when I left PhotoBucket without looking back).

Depending on your volume/storage requirements, Amazon Prime, OneDrive, and GoogleDrive may serve your need. Another idea is 500px.com, but I think it's more suited for photographer community engagement and photo sales than sharing with friends and family.

Posted: 7/6/2017 1:58:47 PM EDT

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oh fuck

....you mean they can use all the ARFCOM MEMES I've snatched up for the past 17 years

and pics of my mas produced guns

shrug

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Posted: 7/6/2017 2:10:01 PM EDT

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My photo web site is hosted at SmugMug (currently a Power plan account). They've been flawless for me for the past ~3 years. Even their basic plan ($48/yr) is reasonable considering they allow unlimited photo uploads (including raw files). I use this site for my main storage/sharing host.

FWIW, I also have a free Flickr account mainly for another avenue of exposure. (ha!)

I stopped using Photobucket (paid account) years before the most recent wave of anger/frustration. SmugMug offers better service for less money (at least that was the case when I left PhotoBucket without looking back).

Depending on your volume/storage requirements, Amazon Prime, OneDrive, and GoogleDrive may serve your need. Another idea is 500px.com, but I think it's more suited for photographer community engagement and photo sales than sharing with friends and family.

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Thanks!

Posted: 7/6/2017 2:12:15 PM EDT

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oh fuck

....you mean they can use all the ARFCOM MEMES I've snatched up for the past 17 years

and pics of my mas produced guns

shrug

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I don't think any of us are worried about those. I've seen a few people post some nice images from imgur after switching. Just brought it up in case they haven't read the TOS and might want to not give away photo rights to a nice image.

Posted: 7/6/2017 2:18:58 PM EDT

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I don't think any of us are worried about those. I've seen a few people post some nice images from imgur after switching. Just brought it up in case they haven't read the TOS and might want to not give away photo rights to a nice image.

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yep

i appreciate you pointing this out.

I keep all my family pics offline

Posted: 7/6/2017 3:03:39 PM EDT

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I use a smugmug account. I have the portfolio level. It costs $150 per year.

Posted: 7/6/2017 3:20:16 PM EDT

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i appreciate you pointing this out.

I keep all my family pics offline

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You just use arf/ imgur for the general web stuff? Or another site?

And the family pics are another thing - I don't post any family other than myself, so I forgot about mentioning those.

Posted: 7/6/2017 3:21:25 PM EDT

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Thanks. No problems with the service?

Posted: 7/6/2017 3:26:41 PM EDT

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You just use arf/ imgur for the general web stuff? Or another site?

And the family pics are another thing - I don't post any family other than myself, so I forgot about mentioning those.

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Photobucket until a few days ago

Tons of pics, several years worth, in sub folders like "handloading" and "retro-AR" etc

Been moving everything to imgur, and reorganizing

Posted: 7/6/2017 3:31:20 PM EDT

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I have never had one. At the same time I don't monitor it 24/7.

Posted: 7/6/2017 4:12:59 PM EDT

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Thanks guys!

Posted: 7/8/2017 5:35:10 PM EDT

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Photobucket until a few days ago

Tons of pics, several years worth, in sub folders like "handloading" and "retro-AR" etc

Been moving everything to imgur, and reorganizing

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The problem with imgur is that they don't accept large jpeg files. I signed on to flicker and so far no problem with uploading large files.

Posted: 7/8/2017 6:00:35 PM EDT

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500px got in trouble a few months ago for selling photos without attribution and (as of the writing) not paying the photographers.

Personally, I use Deviantart for my photography stuff. Free unlimited hosting and if I want to upgrade to get more services on their site like multiple uploads, it's $10 a month. Plus I can sell prints out of there if I feel like it. Only complaint is that the images are right click enabled, but I doubt anyone will steal my stuff.

Posted: 7/8/2017 6:18:23 PM EDT

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The problem with imgur is that they don't accept large jpeg files. I signed on to flicker and so far no problem with uploading large files.

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can you imbed a photo here on ARFCOM from flicker ?

Posted: 7/8/2017 8:55:40 PM EDT

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The problem with imgur is that they don't accept large jpeg files. I signed on to flicker and so far no problem with uploading large files.

can you imbed a photo here on ARFCOM from flicker ?

Yes, it takes a bit of wrangling, or at least it did in the past, but it works.

Posted: 7/8/2017 11:37:14 PM EDT

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500px got in trouble a few months ago for selling photos without attribution and (as of the writing) not paying the photographers.
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That wasn't my interpretation. There was an article posted by one creator making this claim and subsequent updates indicated the photos were sold through affiliates and billing cycle overlaps led to a perceived delay in payment. Another example of the headlines getting ahead of the reality - and I'm not sure this would even be a concern for somebody looking to host photos on free sites like Photobucket, Flickr, etc. [shrug]

Posted: 7/9/2017 12:06:41 AM EDT

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Yes, just click the share button in flickr and copy/paste the bbcode.

Posted: 7/9/2017 12:47:07 PM EDT

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Yes, it takes a bit of wrangling, or at least it did in the past, but it works.

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The problem with imgur is that they don't accept large jpeg files. I signed on to flicker and so far no problem with uploading large files.

can you imbed a photo here on ARFCOM from flicker ?

Yes, it takes a bit of wrangling, or at least it did in the past, but it works.

It is easy. They even give you a little 'sharing' button that auto formats for html, bbcode, or whatever.

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