Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Two vast and trunkless legs of stone => Topic started by: Cramulus on July 14, 2017, 06:22:11 PM

Title: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Cramulus on July 14, 2017, 06:22:11 PM
Look at my goddamn signature, what the fuck


this means ALL the wompcabal images in the PD archive are now broken.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Cain on July 14, 2017, 06:34:51 PM
Well, Photobucket has been sucking for years now.  That they think they can charge for 3rd party hosting, in 2017, is hilarious.

If nothing else, it's a good excuse to go put the entire wompcabal archive up on Imgur.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 14, 2017, 07:22:29 PM
I've used a direct link for years, they're the f'kin yahoo of image hosting. Shit from the dark ages. Total clusterfuck of crappy clickbait ads but I'm too goddamn lazy to shift my old shit.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: LMNO on July 14, 2017, 07:57:14 PM
I just realized this fucked my food blog, regardless that I haven't updated it in months.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Cramulus on July 14, 2017, 10:11:26 PM
is there some ... magical way to download everything, shift it over to another host, and then bulk find/replace URLs throughout the PD archive? maybe using magic?


also, I don't think we have the wompcabal login anymore


(http://i.imgur.com/qtnu7.jpg)
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Trivial on July 14, 2017, 10:31:27 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 14, 2017, 10:11:26 PM
is there some ... magical way to download everything, shift it over to another host, and then bulk find/replace URLs throughout the PD archive? maybe using magic?


also, I don't think we have the wompcabal login anymore


(http://i.imgur.com/qtnu7.jpg)

Find some Python web scraper?
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 14, 2017, 10:47:15 PM
You should be able to download everything and re-up it on imgur, but I think you're fucked on mass replacing links.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Brother Mythos on July 15, 2017, 12:45:47 PM
Photobucket hasn't jammed any of my "3rd party hosted" images yet. However, after logging in, I can no longer download any new images. Now, every attempt to download something gets me kicked out of my account and back to the login screen. Fortunately for me, I don't have many images on their site that are being "3rd party hosted."

What I find most surprising is that this whole thing is happening with no formal warning or notification. Photobucket used to send out advertising Emails on a regular basis. But, I have yet to receive a single Email related to their holding of 3rd party hosting privileges for ransom.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Junkenstein on July 15, 2017, 07:55:30 PM
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/bin/kursor.gif)

It's so bad, it's even in the newsfeed.

I think we need a few alternative versions of that in there.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 15, 2017, 09:59:13 PM
I recommend switching to postimage
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Roly Poly Oly-Garch on July 21, 2017, 05:11:44 PM
I had some...home videos backed up in a private folder through them. They deleted them for ToS. No notice. No chance to recover...just gone.

I fucking HATE Photobucket.
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 23, 2017, 05:38:43 PM
That is exactly why I use bluray disks and flash drives for backups instead of cloud storage
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Bu🤠ns on July 26, 2017, 12:01:26 AM
this is brilliant

https://linux-update.blogspot.com/
(http://i.imgur.com/a5EpRg4.png)
Title: Re: Fucking Photobucket
Post by: Bu🤠ns on July 26, 2017, 02:39:01 AM
http://tinyurl.com/ybcsadj2 < -- did a google image search.  it guessed the description as "please knock sign" which, i assume is a common item used in blogs where this was affected? i'm not sure. but you can scroll through affected blogs