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Tim Mangan-Kansas
Posts: 1728
Joined: Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:25 am
Location: Kansas, Pittsburg
Martin Colony History: 2016 - 22 Pair

Photobucket is no longer allowing pictures stored on their site to be copied to 3rd party sites unless the photobucket owner pays an annual fee of $400. All pictures from my photobucket account that I have shared on this forum over the years have been removed by photobucket. I am sure this affects a lot of other forum members who have used photobucket to post their pictures. I, along with many other photobucket users, are either unable or unwilling to submit to this type of extortion from photobucket.
Licensed Bander
2015 - 14 Pair - fledged 68
2014 - Moved to Kansas - 7 Pair, 35 eggs, 28 fledged in first year
2010 Thru 2013 - Moved-Tried to start new colony
2009 - 46 pair, 217 eggs, 178 fledged
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Ryan
Posts: 308
Joined: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:19 pm
Location: Eganville, Ontario
Martin Colony History: Visitors are rare. On the northern edge of the martins range.

I noticed the same thing to my photos.

I'm sure there's another option out there and I'm sure photobucket will lose a lot of users as few will pay up for such a basic service as image hosting, and at a crazy cost, IMO. In 2017 you're going to have a hard time selling image hosting when bandwidth has increased so much to internet users and the cloud networks are seeing such growth.
2010- 1 SY male on and off for a couple weeks
'11- 0 visits
12- 0 visits
13- 0 visits
14- 1 SY male stopped by over 2 weeks.
15- 0 visits
16- 0 visits
17- 0 visits
18- 0 visits
19- Break-through year. Had a SY Male stop in on June 7th and stay all day, every day until end of June
20 - The male didn't return. I did see a SY male do a few flyovers.
21- a couple brief visits
22-3rd rack added, all within a mile. This one at prime location, 0 visits
23- 0 visits
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John Miller
Posts: 4866
Joined: Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:11 pm
Location: St. Louis, MO

None of mine seem gone...I just share links, which maybe isn't what you are talking about.

Let's see as a test. This is an older photo of Ivan Miller's colony near Jamesport, Mo.

http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o50 ... znatoe.jpg
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Matt F.
Posts: 3978
Joined: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:48 am
Location: Houston, TX

John Miller wrote:None of mine seem gone...I just share links, which maybe isn't what you are talking about.
Hi John,
It's indeed different.
What Tim is talking about (as a Photobucket user I got nailed on this as well) is called "hotlinking".
When you display a picture (the actual picture, as opposed to a link like you posted) on one website, by linking directly to the source image hosted on another website.
I agree with Tim - Photobucket has lost their marbles by doing this.
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DornCounty
Posts: 2169
Joined: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:58 pm
Location: Rural SE Kansas
Martin Colony History: .
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Trio-Jedi

I wouldn't call it extortion. Everytime a photo gets loaded the hosting site has to use resources. When hotlinked they receive no revenue the site that uses it does. When you click a link, it takes you to photobucket page and they can make the revenue from the adds. Maybe $400 is a bit much, but the cloud is not free.
2017 - Home & Public Colonies - 300 Cavities
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Ryan
Posts: 308
Joined: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:19 pm
Location: Eganville, Ontario
Martin Colony History: Visitors are rare. On the northern edge of the martins range.

Hey Tim, I tried the photo sharing site https://vgy.me/ and it works like the old photobucket site did.

I think if you go easy with it and don't over do the third party hosting, you'll be ok. I just did a test in my WDC thread and it seems to work great.
2010- 1 SY male on and off for a couple weeks
'11- 0 visits
12- 0 visits
13- 0 visits
14- 1 SY male stopped by over 2 weeks.
15- 0 visits
16- 0 visits
17- 0 visits
18- 0 visits
19- Break-through year. Had a SY Male stop in on June 7th and stay all day, every day until end of June
20 - The male didn't return. I did see a SY male do a few flyovers.
21- a couple brief visits
22-3rd rack added, all within a mile. This one at prime location, 0 visits
23- 0 visits
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handyman315
Posts: 300
Joined: Thu May 12, 2016 11:03 am
Location: SW Ohio
Martin Colony History: Colony established May 20, 2017 after three unsuccessful years. Persistent and aggressive Tree Swallows plagued the site, but beyond learning - and practicing - to control them, was the return in 2017 of a 2016-SY-M previously unable to find a mate. As a handsome ASY-M, he brought along two females and a swagger that soon put the Tree Swallow issue to rest. As the anchor pair, he and his mate hatched all six of their eggs into fat and healthy babies into what settled in to be a three-pair, flourishing new colony with up to 11 birds total, including 3 SY-M trouble makers.

John Miller wrote:None of mine seem gone...I just share links, which maybe isn't what you are talking about.

Let's see as a test. This is an older photo of Ivan Miller's colony near Jamesport, Mo.

http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o50 ... znatoe.jpg
Not working for me; wants 3rd Party hosting enabled.

Goodbye PhotoBucket.
2023-42 Nests, 197 Eggs/Babies
2022-48 Nests Fledged 203
2021-43 Nests Fledged 185
2020-31 Nests Fledged 133, three early deaths due to cold & rain
2019-19 Nests Fledged 84
2018-11 Nests Fledged 48, ASY-M Arrived April 6, Despite Snow & Cold, Joined Soon by Mate & Two Adult Pairs
2017-3 Nests Fledged 13, FIRST-YEAR LANDLORD! Resident SY-M from 2016 Returned (as ASY-M) on May 20. At Least 11 Adult Residents
2016 Late-Arriving SYs, Resident Lone SY-M
2015-14 Many Visits
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John Miller
Posts: 4866
Joined: Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:11 pm
Location: St. Louis, MO

Yes...they sent me an email saying I had to pay too. Isn't that an old song?
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flyin-lowe
Posts: 3789
Joined: Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:49 am
Location: Indiana/Henry Co.

Unless there are businesses using 3rd party hosting (I have no idea if they do or not) I can't imagine anyone paying the $400 a year they want right now. I assume a huge percentage of the 3rd party hosting is people like us posting pics into forums. I can't see a single person paying for the service just to do that.
2026 HOSP 27
2025 62 pair HOSP 20
2024 60 pair, HOSP 44
2023 60+ pair, HOSP 8
2022 60 nests with 262 eggs, HOSP 14
2021 62 pair, HOSP 9
2020 42 nest, HOSP 8
2019- 31 pair
2018- 15 pair 49 fledged
2017 3 SY pair, 12 eggs , fledged 10. 4 additional lone SY's
2016 1 pair fledged 4
2015 Visitors
2014 Visitors
2013 Moved 6 miles, 1 pair fledged 2.
2012 30 pair fledged 100.
2011 12 pair 43 fledged.
2010 5 pair 14 fledged.
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Ryan
Posts: 308
Joined: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:19 pm
Location: Eganville, Ontario
Martin Colony History: Visitors are rare. On the northern edge of the martins range.

They could have probably got $5 a month out of a lot of people, but $400 a year is insane.


Just move your photos here: https://vgy.me/

Works great, and less clutter and sluggishness of the photobucket site.
2010- 1 SY male on and off for a couple weeks
'11- 0 visits
12- 0 visits
13- 0 visits
14- 1 SY male stopped by over 2 weeks.
15- 0 visits
16- 0 visits
17- 0 visits
18- 0 visits
19- Break-through year. Had a SY Male stop in on June 7th and stay all day, every day until end of June
20 - The male didn't return. I did see a SY male do a few flyovers.
21- a couple brief visits
22-3rd rack added, all within a mile. This one at prime location, 0 visits
23- 0 visits
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PMTOM
Posts: 5
Joined: Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:32 am
Location: USA

Some beautiful pictures there guys!
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