06-07-2020, 02:50 PM
I never really had any issues with photobucket in the past, as they gave me a very good price on a package with unlimited storage space and unlimited bandwidth. I had just over 5,000 photos there.
Their technical support was always prompt and courteous, and any issues that arose were always dealt with promptly and efficiently.
However, the site has been bought-out, and they're currently doing an "upgrade", which has changed their "albums" from a pages format to a single page for each album. On the pages version, you could start at either the first or last page, (if you remembered approximately where the photo you wanted was located) and get to that page quite quickly. When you found the photo and clicked on the img data, the picture was copied and could be pasted wherever you wished it to appear. You could then return to the same page, and continue from where you left-off, or, simply jump to another page or another album.
The album all-on-one-page requires the user to scroll down through the photos from the beginning, until you find the desired one. You then click on it to "view" it enlarged, then click again to "copy" it, and it can then be pasted wherever you wish it to appear...unless it's here on Big Blue, where the copied & pasted picture turns into the word "undefined"...in other words, no picture here, although it does work on the MR forums.
Then, when you wish to post another photo from the same album, perhaps one which was right beside the one you just posted, you're sent back to the beginning, so that you have to scroll all the way down again. When I know that the photo is quite a ways down, the scrolling feature cannot keep up with my scrolling finger.
Exacerbating the problem is the fact that my "improved" account now has duplicates and/or triplicates of many of the photos in almost all of the albums, so instead of perhaps 200 photos to go through in an album, there may be 500 or 600 of them. I could delete the extraneous ones, except one of those copies has been posted somewhere, perhaps months or years ago, and if I delete that particular one, that picture disappears from where it was posted. Deleting the extra photos is also a one-at-a-time operation, so extremely time consuming.
In addition to the above quirks, some albums, which I know for a fact to be fairly large ones (17 pages-or-so in the old format) now show perhaps only a dozen-or-so photos.
I'm assuming that the site is still undergoing these "upgrades", so am trying to not over-react, but this is becoming very upsetting, as I find that photos are a good way to answer questions about the things we do in this hobby. Without them, my ability to share my knowledge is compromised. Yeah, I could still write it out, and you could read until your eyes begin to glaze over, but it won't be long until you'll just give up. I'm starting to feel the same way.
I am going to copy this, and submit it to photobucket, as it includes most of my concerns. Change, merely for the sake of change, is not necessarily a good thing.
Wayne
Their technical support was always prompt and courteous, and any issues that arose were always dealt with promptly and efficiently.
However, the site has been bought-out, and they're currently doing an "upgrade", which has changed their "albums" from a pages format to a single page for each album. On the pages version, you could start at either the first or last page, (if you remembered approximately where the photo you wanted was located) and get to that page quite quickly. When you found the photo and clicked on the img data, the picture was copied and could be pasted wherever you wished it to appear. You could then return to the same page, and continue from where you left-off, or, simply jump to another page or another album.
The album all-on-one-page requires the user to scroll down through the photos from the beginning, until you find the desired one. You then click on it to "view" it enlarged, then click again to "copy" it, and it can then be pasted wherever you wish it to appear...unless it's here on Big Blue, where the copied & pasted picture turns into the word "undefined"...in other words, no picture here, although it does work on the MR forums.
Then, when you wish to post another photo from the same album, perhaps one which was right beside the one you just posted, you're sent back to the beginning, so that you have to scroll all the way down again. When I know that the photo is quite a ways down, the scrolling feature cannot keep up with my scrolling finger.
Exacerbating the problem is the fact that my "improved" account now has duplicates and/or triplicates of many of the photos in almost all of the albums, so instead of perhaps 200 photos to go through in an album, there may be 500 or 600 of them. I could delete the extraneous ones, except one of those copies has been posted somewhere, perhaps months or years ago, and if I delete that particular one, that picture disappears from where it was posted. Deleting the extra photos is also a one-at-a-time operation, so extremely time consuming.
In addition to the above quirks, some albums, which I know for a fact to be fairly large ones (17 pages-or-so in the old format) now show perhaps only a dozen-or-so photos.
I'm assuming that the site is still undergoing these "upgrades", so am trying to not over-react, but this is becoming very upsetting, as I find that photos are a good way to answer questions about the things we do in this hobby. Without them, my ability to share my knowledge is compromised. Yeah, I could still write it out, and you could read until your eyes begin to glaze over, but it won't be long until you'll just give up. I'm starting to feel the same way.
I am going to copy this, and submit it to photobucket, as it includes most of my concerns. Change, merely for the sake of change, is not necessarily a good thing.
Wayne