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Topic Started: Jun 29 2017, 08:41 AM (3,810 Views)
Prenton
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I just joined village photos over the past half hour, and it seems to be trouble free and easy to use.

I had kept all of the photos that I had downloaded to photobucket on my hard drive, sorted by event or group build model name. I have gone back to the last three pages on the Dublin Chapter meetings thread, and was able, using village photos, to substitute the photos on those threads with the same ones that I had previously put up via photobucket.

It's tedious, but it can be done.

Philip

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Just want to say thanks to Jason for all the effort he has gone to in putting in the workaround to this site and keeping us all updated with what has happened and what our options are. Jason has clearly spent a lot of time and effort on this topic and it's much appreciated.

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Yes fair play to Jason I've seen how hard he's been at work in the background to sort this.

I have very little on photobucket. I changed to Flickr years ago though it's not without its faults with unasked for "improvements"

Photobucket have shot themselves in the foot with this and a massive migration from the site is underway according to their Twitter and Facebook page. Hopefully it'll be a massive fail for them otherwise the other hosting sites may follow their lead.




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Prenton
Jun 30 2017, 09:53 PM
I just joined village photos over the past half hour, and it seems to be trouble free and easy to use.

I had kept all of the photos that I had downloaded to photobucket on my hard drive, sorted by event or group build model name. I have gone back to the last three pages on the Dublin Chapter meetings thread, and was able, using village photos, to substitute the photos on those threads with the same ones that I had previously put up via photobucket.

It's tedious, but it can be done.

Philip

Philip is village photo good for posting pics to the forum is it similar to Photobucket posting wise as I can't find anything good for posting pics and I certainly won't be installing Photobucket again thanks
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Maurice

Another site is www.postage.org, forget who told me, maybe "Woodley", have used and appears to work well.
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des byrne
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Prenton
Jun 30 2017, 09:53 PM
I just joined village photos over the past half hour, and it seems to be trouble free and easy to use.

I had kept all of the photos that I had downloaded to photobucket on my hard drive, sorted by event or group build model name. I have gone back to the last three pages on the Dublin Chapter meetings thread, and was able, using village photos, to substitute the photos on those threads with the same ones that I had previously put up via photobucket.

It's tedious, but it can be done.

Philip

Philip is village photo good for posting pics to the forum is it similar to Photobucket posting wise as I can't find anything good for posting pics and I certainly won't be installing Photobucket again thanks
Des
Hi Des

Yes, its similar to photobucket, but a little faster, and simpler. You can set up libraries of folders for different pics, but - as far as I can see - you cannot set up sub-libraries within libraries. Slightly problematic if you want to keep each of your events and your group builds separate, but on the other hand the uploading is sooo much quicker than photobucket. To upload photos to the forum, just click on the individual photo in your hard drive / folders and you get a link which you copy and past, just like photobucket. But it works! And quicker....

I really cannot see myself going back, even if the people behind photobucket realise their mistake and rescind this crazy $399 charge for third party hosting.

Philip

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Prenton
Jul 1 2017, 11:02 PM
des byrne
Jul 1 2017, 09:16 PM
Prenton
Jun 30 2017, 09:53 PM
I just joined village photos over the past half hour, and it seems to be trouble free and easy to use.

I had kept all of the photos that I had downloaded to photobucket on my hard drive, sorted by event or group build model name. I have gone back to the last three pages on the Dublin Chapter meetings thread, and was able, using village photos, to substitute the photos on those threads with the same ones that I had previously put up via photobucket.

It's tedious, but it can be done.

Philip

Philip is village photo good for posting pics to the forum is it similar to Photobucket posting wise as I can't find anything good for posting pics and I certainly won't be installing Photobucket again thanks
Des
Hi Des

Yes, its similar to photobucket, but a little faster, and simpler. You can set up libraries of folders for different pics, but - as far as I can see - you cannot set up sub-libraries within libraries. Slightly problematic if you want to keep each of your events and your group builds separate, but on the other hand the uploading is sooo much quicker than photobucket. To upload photos to the forum, just click on the individual photo in your hard drive / folders and you get a link which you copy and past, just like photobucket. But it works! And quicker....

I really cannot see myself going back, even if the people behind photobucket realise their mistake and rescind this crazy $399 charge for third party hosting.

Philip

Cheers Philip I'll give that a try tomorrow as I'm working now
In regards to Photobucket you just have to see the reviews on the app store to see how much custom there losing and reviews since a few months back so its gone to dogs altogether
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Maurice

Sorry lads,only saw my mistake this morning should have read

www.postimage.org

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Just a note for anyone using Village Photo. Their terms and conditions quote:

"User content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose. You grant to Village.Photos a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Village.Photos the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights".


So they can do what they like with your pictures.

Graham

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Jul 5 2017, 03:38 PM
Just a note for anyone using Village Photo. Their terms and conditions quote:

"User content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose. You grant to Village.Photos a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Village.Photos the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights".


So they can do what they like with your pictures.

Graham

Thanks Graham

No worries - if they want to distribute (or even sell) photos of my modelling efforts, then that's fine by me.

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Well spotted Graham. I'm not sure what the Terms and Conditions are on other sites, but like Philip, I'm happy for them to do whatever they want with my photos, they'll only be build logs of my models anyhow, and I have the originals on my PC...
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Just a heads up about Village.photos.

I've hit a snag with them. I decided to change my password, and I changed it to something long (over 20 characters). It accepted the change, but when I tried to sign in with the new password, it told me the password had to be 16 characters or less! Of course, it didn't tell me that when I was setting the password.

Anyhow, I then couldn't sign in, as neither my old or new password are working. I clicked on the 'forgot password' link, and asked it to send a link to my email address, and it said it couldn't send to my email address. When I originally signed up for village.photos it said I'd get an email confirming my account with them, and I never did, so I don't know if that's linked to this issue of them not being able to send me a password reset email or not. So basically I'm now locked out of my village.photos account.

I emailed their support email, twice so far, with no response.

So, beware, village.photos might have issues of their own, around account management and (lack of) support.

As an aside, I was changing my password as someone tried to hack my email (which *was* a similar password) a week ago. This would have been a couple of weeks after I signed up for village.photos, which was the most recent online account I created. That doesn't mean the two events are linked of course, but it does have me thinking!

Unless I hear back from their support soon, I'll be looking for another photo hosting site...

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Uh Oh!

Thanks for the info, Jason. I will check tomorrow whether I got an email - I don't recall one.....😒

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Yeah, it's a little worrying Philip.

As a quick update, I got a response from Support, and they said they've changed email supplier as they were having issues. When I ask for a password reset email now, I no longer get an error, it now says it's sent an email to me.

However, of course, I'm not getting the email, even 12 hours later. So I've contact support again to let them know...
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Just a quick update, I now have all this sorted. I tried to contact Support again and heard nothing, but when I tried to click on the Lost Password link again, it sent me an email which I actually received and I was able to change the password and all's working again.
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Already I've tried to read dozens of threads only to find no pics .Its not a massive exaggeration to say they have destroyed the internet (or at very least damaged a decade or more of content )for modellers and countless other communities .What a shower of ******* !
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Already I've tried to read dozens of threads only to find no pics .Its not a massive exaggeration to say they have destroyed the internet (or at very least damaged a decade or more of content )for modellers and countless other communities .What a shower of ******* !




Very annoying - even in google searches when you click on a pic you get the dreaded clock face.
I think it has also slowed down traffic to forums and turned more people to showing their work on Facebook




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Looks like Photobucket have finally reversed their decision not to allow 3rd party hosting
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May 20 2018, 08:08 PM
Looks like Photobucket have finally reversed their decision not to allow 3rd party hosting
That's good news - for how long it lasts!!

Great to see all the old photographs, particularly of the Dublin Chapter meetings - the first one is from summer 2009!

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