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Photobucket and Signatures

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Hi everyone, you may have started noticing signatures 'breaking' (or rather displaying a photobucket default 'warning against linking'). Basically, in order to use photobucket-hosted images elsewhere (including GW, but also your alliance forums), they require you to pay 400$ a year. Ridiculous, of course.
The above article tells you more about this scurrilous practice.

Personally, I am fond of imgur.com, a site that (for now) still does what photobucket once did. I recommend downloading your pictures from Photobucket and setting up an imgur.com account.

Photobucket-links will soon be removed from all signatures, as they are breaking the forum's look.

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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

Wow that's a real bullet in there own foot from photobucket
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This is the second mass extinction of sigs and graphics forum/blog content, after Imageshack changed its address from .us to .com few years ago.
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

Yes, although this is relatively easy to remedy (no need to go link-hunting like with Imageshack). As album owner, you are still able to see and download your images.
If you happen to be looking for a solution, you can try this: go to photobucket, download all your images, and host them elsewhere. :)

Regardless, it is a shame and a somewhat strange decision by them.

Legendary Apophis wrote: Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:38 am This is the second mass extinction of sigs and graphics forum/blog content, after Imageshack changed its address from .us to .com few years ago.
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

And with this, I have now deleted both of my photobucket accounts, because they're useless.

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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

Psi, you did good work.
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Ohhhhhh I forgot all about Photobucket, I wonder what mine has, of it exists still.
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

Please peeps convert over to imgur for sigs or remove the photobucket ones as they are clogging up the forums and lets not forget that there is a rule in place for sig size and I don't personally wanna have to enforce it in the market place if I dont have to. I know it may seem like a pain to do however I did it and it took me maybe 10mins tops to do.
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

~Odin~ wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:22 pm Please peeps convert over to imgur for sigs or remove the photobucket ones as they are clogging up the forums and lets not forget that there is a rule in place for sig size and I don't personally wanna have to enforce it in the market place if I dont have to. I know it may seem like a pain to do however I did it and it took me maybe 10mins tops to do.

It's not exactly hard to do....

And it's not like people haven't had warning.
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

Tok`ra wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 2:35 pm
~Odin~ wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:22 pm Please peeps convert over to imgur for sigs or remove the photobucket ones as they are clogging up the forums and lets not forget that there is a rule in place for sig size and I don't personally wanna have to enforce it in the market place if I dont have to. I know it may seem like a pain to do however I did it and it took me maybe 10mins tops to do.

It's not exactly hard to do....

And it's not like people haven't had warning.
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

Agreeing with the mods on this board feels really weird btw :p
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

Tok`ra wrote: Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:43 am Agreeing with the mods on this board feels really weird btw :p
Do I make you feel dirty baby? :p

On a serious note, Verbal warnings have started to be handed out, Please follow the instructions given. If you choose not to follow the instructions then you will be issued with a formal warning.
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

I found old pictures from the UK meet up in 2007 uploaded to imageshack still displaying fine on these boards. Gotta say, I was astounded actually.

But yes, all these broken photobucket images are very annoying. Especially yours Kikaz :smt064
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

now we have a new host for forum can't admin do the sig setting thing where sizes above a certain size can't be posted? I know some forums had that feature years ago surely this one does :smt017

(I've turned sigs off so I no longer see a heap of outdated photoshop ones and ones where spoiler no longer works :D
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Re: Photobucket and Signatures

do we have a good sig maker yet. that can do a great sig under these peramiters
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