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[impy]

Dear photobucket,
Please, please fix yourself because this hostage situation you've got going on with the internet at large is only going to end badly for you... and well, everyone else, but you'll be the one to actually go out of business. Seriously, $400 to use the service the way it's been billed for years?! That's some grade A fuckery right there.

So, so glad my account was hit with that just in time for my vacation. I mean, why wouldn't I want to have to deal with it? The kicker is that it hit the account that I paid for and has the backup of some other service that was all "here's extra photobucket goodness just for dealing with us!" so really, wtf.

Huh. Maybe the lightning extravaganza the dog and I saw on our failed walk earlier wasn't simply heat lightning because that right there? That's thunder. Debating running out to get the mail before the storm may or may not hit. Too late. Rain's here.

In any case, this has been day one of my vacation.

Comments

[venivididolli]

Geez, what's wrong with Photobucket now? I've had to run it on Internet Explorer, but it's been working fine otherwise.

[impy]

They decided they don't want to have people use their accounts to host images and are replacing images with a stupid "exceeded bandwidth please upgrade to plan500" or similar message. They also removed the option for linking from all plans but their insanely priced one. At this point, if you weren't paying their pro plan (I think), you're at risk of being slapped with the image of doooom. One of my accounts got hit yesterday. I cannot see any way they win unless they want to go out of business. $400! What the hell?

[venivididolli]

No one's gonna fucking pay that. Ugh. I should see if there's anything there I need to save to my computer.

ETA: Does it still work as photo storage? I'm not going to pay for another year, but if they're not messing with the photos there, I could at least have time to move stuff.

[impy]

They've said it's still fine for storage and I can still see all my stuff in the borked account so I'm inclined to believe it. I'm really hoping this is like when Netflix thought they'd separate their streaming and rental services and the internet said no, so Netflix recanted and upped the price a bit.

But waiting has never been my favorite thing.