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I am furious with 'Photobollocks' but I suppose I should have seen it coming ... sigh.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Looks like they are just trying to hold existing users to ransom.
Personally I am quite happy that there are probably a few old threads of mine on other forums which will now have the 'Please update your account' image in place of a picture - it will remind other people not to use PhotoFuckwit ever again.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Obviously, it's a bit ott for the vast majority of us, but for perhaps a significant number of us, a real option..
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is this a conscious attempt to slow the exodus, or just too many people trying to leave at the same time?
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Ignore this I was just trying something to get around image hosting
If you are using Android, it wouldn't take too long for me to make a quick app which will upload pictures to your website.
I've been using postimage.org lately and will be looking into google pics.
Since these are all the free(-riding) users who cost the company a lot of money for storage capacity and bandwidth but don't generate any, because hotlinking - if done correctly - doesn't trigger ad revenue. Bye bye… the company instantly saves a fortune and doesn't lose any income.
Then repositions itself as a smaller, subscription-only service probably aimed at professionals and companies, so it can drop all the infuriating ads that drive passive viewers away from it. Hence the deliberately high price for the only service that offers hotlinking, since it's actually still trivial for those users.
The real problem for other companies who still offer a free service will be how they make money from it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
People often expect media for free nowadays but somebody has to pay for it somewhere.
My guess is that once everybody starts migrating their pics to other free sites the huge cost of extra bandwidth will get the other sites charging which will cause migration to the next site and the merry-go-round will start all over again.
Google is the most frustrating as it seems to work but the link expires after a day or 2 lol
its not just the free users affected here, pb's existing paid subscribers are also being held to ransom. People who pay $100 a year jave had the same message as those who pay nothing.... even worse, PB are still advertising those $100 accounts!
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This could be wildly wrong (and it wasn't my deduction, I read it elsewhere! My initial reaction was that they'd go bust within six months) but it does look to me as if it could be an intentional strategy and not total stupidity. No-one could be *that* stupid, surely? A partial rollback would also make them look like they're listening, to the type of customers they actually want.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Imgur it is for me.
I've just done mine again to be sure then deleted the account, they came down much quicker now and no corruptions