photobucket users, no more hosting of pics... Options

[NgoFcukinWay]

I love the FB group, its just another outlet for me to be rude to people who ask stupid and redundant questions.... and I can post sarcastic gifs in an instant

how much oil do i need for my 1.8 ST?

[cheela]

I love the FB group, its just another outlet for me to be rude to people who ask stupid and redundant questions.... and I can post sarcastic gifs in an instant

how much oil do i need for my 1.8 ST?

trick question, you don't need ANY! it'll keep running regardless.

[richee3]

I love the FB group, its just another outlet for me to be rude to people who ask stupid and redundant questions.... and I can post sarcastic gifs in an instant

Like the one asking about putting JDM tails on a USDM Celica about half an hour ago?

[njccmd2002]

Lol. Fb. Wins. Too bad box is not there. Anywho, im going on vacation to pr. When i come bak ill see if i fix the 2gr thread

[Tigawoods]

so how much was your diffuser and where can i get one??
link?

custom made all the things

how much oil do i need for my 1.8 ST?

1.8 quarts, obviously

Like the one asking about putting JDM tails on a USDM Celica about half an hour ago?

yea....i was just tagged in that lol

[njccmd2002]

Yup. Lol. Tag youre it!


The st 1.8 takes cooking oil. Pam preferably.

[1994Celica]

I usually just tag this forum and tell people search it through here. People who ask oil capacity..... like seriously owners ksnisl man or freaking google?

[njccmd2002]

From now on just tag mike thoma

[BonzaiCelica]

no other site like ours ahhh. even after i was contributing every once in a while to coomer account through paypal. then this happened....

[njccmd2002]

Sadly we all knew this day would come

[jordisonjr]

so how much was your diffuser and where can i get one??
link?

custom made all the things

how much oil do i need for my 1.8 ST?

1.8 quarts, obviously

Like the one asking about putting JDM tails on a USDM Celica about half an hour ago?

yea....i was just tagged in that lol

Oh, you mean this one? http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=97875&hl=

lol. Apparently the facebook responses weren't clear enough.

[bloodMoney]

From now on just tag mike thoma

I'm going to make that my goal from here on out... Be the first one to tag Mike in the comments.

[Tigawoods]

I'm going to make that my goal from here on out... Be the first one to tag Mike in the comments.

Bring it on


This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Jul 24, 2017 - 2:48 PM

[Langing]

I first posted this comment on Nial's buiild thread, to me a most impressive work and one that might stand as a poster-child for what genuine harm photobucket's change in policy has done to its users. It was when I checked back in with his thread that I discovered this disaster. So, I am late to the party.

What has happened is unbelievably sad when you consider that every participant has labored under the impression that our work was being constructed to last 'forever'. No one imagined that we were building our structure on a sand foundation. . .

Additional information on what is going on at photobucket is available at a website called --- downdetector.com.

A typical comment posted on downdetector.com:

Mary Anne Reid • 22 days ago

For those of you who have no clue what is going on with PB, they have disabled all 3rd party links unless you are willing to pay $400 a year. What that means: If you run a blog, forum, ebay, etc. page/website and you embed your pics via the 3rd party link option, they are no longer viewable. This has caused extreme outrage and everyone scrambling to attempt to download their albums to salvage their pictures to move to another photosharing website. Visit their Facebook page for more info.

That is one of a great number of comments from outraged customers of Photobucket. Later comments indicate that it may be too late to get images downloaded off their faltering site.

AS i SAID TO NIAL

Now, as to your (NIAL'S) images during the years you have been working on your project, no one would expect you to laboriously rebuild your 'build thread', so it looks as if we are all SOOL, unless someone was to do something to reverse Photobucket's actions, such as file a class action suit to get Photobucket to turn 3rd party links back on. It seems to me that what they have done either is illegal (extortion), or should be made illegal, because the hurt to all of us is quite difficult to absorb or understand. How can anyone continue using the Internet constructively if the very basis that underlies their efforts disappears? Sorry that it happened to your build in particular, Nial, because I have followed your work since almost day one, and found it truly inspirational.

Or maybe this (6GC) website owner could negotiate with Photobucket and come back to all of us to let us decide whether to pay whatever they may demand. At least this might give us an option for which the perceived pain was just dollars and not months of hard work most will just not expend the labor doing, and if they do not, this site may itself (along with Photobucket) fall into the bit bucket in the sky. In the future, maybe we could all sign up to pay some reasonable monthly fee so the website could handle the images and this could never happen again. No other photosharing website, including FB, comes with a guarantee that they would not ever do something like what Photobucket did. There is, on this website, amongst the chatter, some valuable information!!

[95CelicaST]

Yeah.... Coomer isn't going to go negotiate anything with Photophucket. Nor do us old timers expect Coomer to add image hosting functionality to this forum and cope with that traffic cost (let's face it - you're not donating to this site's operational costs as-is). He's hardly ever on here since about 2007, and that is OK. We're just happy to have the site operational.


Does it suck that they disabled 3rd party hosting? Yes.

Are they the only game in town? Nope.


It'll suck to have to go through my build thread and re-link EVERYTHING, because I have to now look at the photo name that is in the URL code, find that photo in my Imgur album and change the link, but that'll only take a handful of hours. Not the end of the world, and not worth complaining to Photophucket about. I would never give them an indication that their move has caused me grief. I imagine they're over in Denver like



This post has been edited by 95CelicaST: Jul 25, 2017 - 9:41 AM

[Langing]

The $400/year at Photobucket gives an account capable of 500 gigabytes of photo storage, with 3rd party linkage, fast bandwidth and no advertisements. Photobucket seems to have been intentionally signalling their move for some time by slowing down operations of all free accounts and sticking so many ads in your face that you could hardly navigate. Individuals would choose giving up rather then face that Photobucket system.

Judging from all the bad comments I found on downdetector.com, people are thoroughly frustrated and want off the Photobucket system as fast as possible. And, remember, Photobucket's 'come on' at first was free image hosting, but they provided easy ways to imbed photos into THIRD PARTY WEBSITES, such as ours. Ethically speaking, due to their 'bait and switch' attitude, they ought to grandfather all people who used their system to THIRD PARTY link to on-line fora, and there must be a great many that have used Photobucket that way up until now. Likely, what they are doing now is what they planned from the get-go, cause they wanted to make money.

If Photobucket would provide help to consolidate all individual accounts making up any single on-line forum into one $400/year account, and all members of that forum contributed whatever small amount would be required if the cost was distributed over the entire membership it would take to make up that cost, keeping our images on Photobucket would be far better than the service we currently get (or don't get). After all, no matter where we get on-line photo storage, it costs someone to provide that storage, and eventually we would have to begin paying something.

Consider also the notion of providing that image storage on our own website, run by Coomer. Supposing he would consider doing that, would members be willing to be 'taxed' a small monthly fee to help Coomer deal with that cost, or the costs he has already borne? When is it ethically right for people to feel they should 'pay' for services they receive on the internet that they are used to getting for free?

It seems to me that the information gathered on our website has intrinsic value that needs to be added to the commonwealth of value to be used by all who need it. Maybe that's not politically correct thinking, but that's how it appears to me.

I said all that because I cannot sleep thinking of the harm being done to the 6GC website by the decision made by Photobucket, along with the way they went about enforcing their need to 'monitize' their website, and my mind keeps searching for a solution that would resurrect our valuable collection of information on the 1994-1999 Toyota Celicas and doing the least harm in the process. Members are already trying to off-load their photos and going to alternate hosting sites, some will even expend the time to seek out and relink their photos.

If we could find a 'principal' at Photobucket with whom we could negotiate a solution to our problem, one single Photobucket account that all 6GC members could access to store their photos, that Photobucket solution would apply to all other forums in similar situations, so it would be in their interest to facilitate it's happening. They want to make money, we want to keep our information in tact. Are our members willing to pay a small monthly fee? How do you 'old timers' feel about having to pay a small monthly fee? What if it were only $5/month?

[njccmd2002]

Lol. You are overthinking it. The site is over. Few members going around. All those great posts were done by members. NO longer active. Do we call them out of retirement to come fix it?

Moat have moved on to other cars or growing families. In my case, i learned a lot. So much i hardly reference this site anymore.

This site greatness was coming to a stop. Photobucket accelerated process.

So if your local church passes free food to the homeless for a week. Next week they run out of money. Do the homleas have a right to sue?

Free is not forever. They are in the business of making money

[Langing]

Lol. You are overthinking it. The site is over. Few members going around. All those great posts were done by members. NO longer active. Do we call them out of retirement to come fix it?

Moat have moved on to other cars or growing families. In my case, i learned a lot. So much i hardly reference this site anymore.

This site greatness was coming to a stop. Photobucket accelerated process.

So if your local church passes free food to the homeless for a week. Next week they run out of money. Do the homleas have a right to sue?

Free is not forever. They are in the business of making money

njccmd2002, I have nothing but respect for you as you have helped me many times in the past. Maybe you are right in all that you say. Maybe I just have to accept it, as in 'what will be, will be'.

Still, I have a 1994 Celica with it's engine in pieces in my garage, waiting to be put back together. I have never done such a thing before in my lifetime. I would like to be able to appeal to the body of information collected over the years by past and current members who laboriously documented their work and knowledge. I thought they did it so others might make use of it. Why else would they have done that work? 'Overthinking' it may well be, but in my mind we ought to do something to preserve what has been accumulated, so that others who pick up a Celica and want to restore or enhance it might also use the information, way on into the future. I doubt I am the only member who feels this way. You seem to be in a different, more accepting and resigned place, since you have been through the process so many times already, and perhaps you have already gotten all that you needed from this website. I am glad that you are still hanging around.

[VavAlephVav]

I didn't even realize this until a couple of days ago either.
Although I see that my Google drive has a section for "Pictures" and it says Coming Soon. I already use google drive to upload and share large files from books to videos so hopefully they will take the third party hosting feature too.

Of course the alternative of hosting the pics directly on this site is all about server space. And that costs money too.

[Box]

Third party embedding service for Google Photos: https://ctrlq.org/google/photos/

I just started using Flickr, has a mobile app and easy to use.