photobucket's new site

[nondescript spice]

for those of you who use photobucket as i do, i was wondering what your opinion was of the new site. i HATE it. it is not any easier - if anything it is more complicated, imo.

i found a link to use the original site, which i did. but today, while trying to edit a photo, i had no choice but to use the new site to do it, which is b.s.. now i can't get back to the original site.

anyone else having trouble with it, or is it just me?

[Crowfan]

I had trouble with it too.

[davidbeegah]

I've had trouble as well. I do not like the new site at all. No improvement

[nondescript spice]

great timing - i got an email from PB today, welcoming me to the new site. it said they heard my feedback and think i will be pleased with the new site. i stated quite plainly in my feedback how i felt. if i didn't have so many pics in my account, i'd delete the whole buggardly thing. if anyone knows of a secret back door to get to the old site, please let me know.

[CBG]

I got the same email yesterday..."You HEARD my feedback?" Obviously NOT because you're going ahead with your crappy changes....My biggest complaint: They lump the pics together, and don't allow you to easily link to your pictures. Oh, and the editing is a JOKE!! The WORST, "user unfriendly" is an understatement.

[Crowfan]

Feb 7, 2013 13:02:33 GMT -5 CBG said:

I got the same email yesterday..."You HEARD my feedback?" Obviously NOT because you're going ahead with your crappy changes....My biggest complaint: They lump the pics together, and don't allow you to easily link to your pictures. Oh, and the editing is a JOKE!! The WORST, "user unfriendly" is an understatement.

Given my history with linking and posting, I thought it was just me.

[Phantom Engineer]

I don't know why websites take something that works OK and then make it worse. It must be just basic evilness.

[Cubey]

The preview they showed before was awful (half broken, very different) but the actual version they have put up now isn't as bad. I just accepted it and moved on with my life.

[Ijon the Asano]

I don't really use my acct when I'm not on the board, so just recently saw the new system. I'm no fan of it either, especially because my old hardware limits what software I can run, and some of the browsers I use have real compatibility issues.

I had a specific weirdness the other night that I finally gave up on, but maybe someone has a clue. I was trying to upload two pics I'd found on the net. The first went in fine and showed up in my portfolio. The second gave me a status bar but nothing showed up. I did this a couple times, then somehow accidentally got into what seemed like a new portfolio with four copies of that pic. Never could seem to get the two to mate up.

[nondescript spice]

wow, i've never had that happen. that's a special kind of screw up.

i still hate the new pb. what i have found since the new site began is this. i'll upload a pic to a specific album. like, i put a new pic of chaplin in one of my chaplin albums. then i try to post it, but it comes up blank; error. i have found if i re-upload it to a different album, most times it will post with no problem. it isn't as if the specific album is too full. it just does it randomly and i loathe it.

[Deleted]

Speaking of "some forever not for better" Youtube makes me so ANGRY!!!! I've had a channel for 7 years and had custom wallpaper up and had it exactly the way I wanted. These bastards just come around saying "we're going to update your site" (kinda like saying we're gonna take you around the block for a scrape) So now my channel homepage is the most antiseptic looking piece of crap. Now if I want to spruce it up I have to have a Google account to load art from. I miss the golden days of the internet with its plethora of hideous sites full of bad midi music, awful animated GIFs and horrible screensavers.

GIVE ME BACK MY 2000 INTERNET!!!!!!! GIVE ME BACK THE OLD MP3.COM!!!!!!

Rant done, thank you.

[dph]

I've used Photobucket since 2005, and I have to say I'm quite unhappy with the new site. I can get around and do what I need to do alright, but it is SOOOOO SLOW!!!! They loaded so much crap on the site that it runs incredibly slow on my internet, and I'm on DSL.

As for Youtube, I just had a first. Went to watch a video and it made me choose whether I wanted to watch one long commercial or if I wanted two commercial breaks in the vid for a 14 minute video. That pissed me off so much that I just switched to a different video. Not worth it.

[Ijon the Asano]

Bud Eagle and dph, you are both seconded.


My bizarre photobucket upload error has recurred. I'm not entirely clear, but it seems like images whose filenames begin with digits are a problem. Anybody else seen that?

[nondescript spice]

i didn't really need a new reason to dislike photobucket, but they have given me one. i have two different accounts for PB, and i went to the older account to look for a particular picture. signing into the account wasn't too difficult, since my computer remembered the password, but getting back into my present account has been impossible. i clicked on the thing to re-set the password because it would not accept the one i knew to be correct, but instead, it just change the password on the OLD account, but somehow saved my username to my PRESENT account. so i can't access either at the moment. as soon as i get it straightened out (i don't want to lose access to some of the pics i've saved), i'm kicking PB to the curb.

[dph]

I'm also disappointed with Flickr. This is a bit of a old problem but earlier this year Flickr modified it's format to an ugly and hard to navigate system. On top of that, just like PB, it is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW! I used to chat and share pictures with a group on there, but now most have moved on to a site called Ipernity. Ipernity is ok....however I still don't like it. It's still got a little bit missing, like telling me if I received a new comment or what not. So it looks like I'm out of that particular hobby for now.