Photo? Suck it.
In writing up yesterday's post about the song, I went back to the posts that got made in 2006, including links to the video of said song. It reminded me of Photobucket's new policy, which I got emails about within the past week or so. Basically, if you want to link to your pictures and have the pictures show up somewhere other than Photobucket, you have to pay. Otherwise, you'll get a broken link or what have you. My friend Kris, who was the person who'd recorded the song back in the day, had uploaded it to Photobucket and told me to spread the link around. I believe I eventually found a way to download it to my own Photobucket account as well so I had my own access to it. I'll have to look around to see if I have a downloaded copy, because that's the sort of thing to put on YouTube at this point. And, well, granted, if we play it again at camp (which I'm hoping, even if we just read through it a couple times), I can record it on my own camera, but really that first performance of it was pretty cool, even with the brass missing the key change. Now, due to Photobucket's new rule, you can't view the video on her journal. Bummer. And, since I'm using a too-old browser, I can't watch the video even if I click over to it.
My personal Photobucket account was sort of a slush thing. It's where I host random crap I find on the internet. Back when I was keeping up with _forward_march_--and, well, getting forwarded emails in the first place--I would get some with pictures, and need a place to put the pictures, and I didn't want them on my Flickr account, which is where I put actual pictures I've personally taken. Photobucket was perfect for that. I'll still upload things to Photobucket every so often, but it's rare, to the point that I have to remind myself to log in and keep the account active. To get not one, but at least two emails about this situation didn't make me happy. I just wonder why it took them to this point in time to try to get people to pay for their accounts. They've had paid accounts for a while, but now they're forcing people to get them if they want to use Photobucket as more than simply storage. (Personally, since that's all I've used it for in recent years, it doesn't entirely bother me, but it's the principle of the thing.) There are other places to host pictures. I'm pretty sure Instagram is free, and Twitter has picture-posting capabilities. To me, Flickr is a classier site, and while I could have a free account there, I choose to pay for it and overall have been happy with the service I've been provided. Photobucket was never my first choice. Now, it's almost like, why do I still have this? And then I remember the various pictures I've found on the internet that make me happy, yet I don't need to store them on my hard drive, and there you go.
My personal Photobucket account was sort of a slush thing. It's where I host random crap I find on the internet. Back when I was keeping up with _forward_march_--and, well, getting forwarded emails in the first place--I would get some with pictures, and need a place to put the pictures, and I didn't want them on my Flickr account, which is where I put actual pictures I've personally taken. Photobucket was perfect for that. I'll still upload things to Photobucket every so often, but it's rare, to the point that I have to remind myself to log in and keep the account active. To get not one, but at least two emails about this situation didn't make me happy. I just wonder why it took them to this point in time to try to get people to pay for their accounts. They've had paid accounts for a while, but now they're forcing people to get them if they want to use Photobucket as more than simply storage. (Personally, since that's all I've used it for in recent years, it doesn't entirely bother me, but it's the principle of the thing.) There are other places to host pictures. I'm pretty sure Instagram is free, and Twitter has picture-posting capabilities. To me, Flickr is a classier site, and while I could have a free account there, I choose to pay for it and overall have been happy with the service I've been provided. Photobucket was never my first choice. Now, it's almost like, why do I still have this? And then I remember the various pictures I've found on the internet that make me happy, yet I don't need to store them on my hard drive, and there you go.