Is anyone finding Photobucket slow?

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    As per the title really. Photobucket is so slow for me that it is unusable. Is it my computer (all other sites I use including photo storage sites seem fine) or is it PB that has the problem?
     
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    Hi @longk my Photobucket got so slow over the last few months so this week that I got my account deleted,and then made a new account yesterday and its fine today,just changed all my details but used the same email;)

    PS I know that our good friend @Zigs has been having problems also:smile:
     
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      You might have noticed i'm not using my normal array of simileys, that's because they're hosted by photobucket and the time it's loaded I've forgotten what I went there for.

      Thought it was their way of getting everyone to pay to go ad free :th scifD36:
       
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        I gave up using Photobucket a couple of years ago and just download straight to GC from my computer. It's quicker and easier - just drag and drop.

        I don't know whether this may be a problem if each photo is too big a file. I take all mine at approx. 1.5 mg and they drag and drop easily so I don't need to reduce the file size. Up to a couple of years ago GC wouldn't allow drag and drop with photos at that size. They may even allow bigger now but I haven't tried it.
         
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          Do you lose all your photos doing that?

          @shiney - I only use PB for small files anyway. I store the good stuff on Flickr and an external drive. I reckon that @Zigs is right and they're trying to bully us to pay which is a little silly when Flickr gives me one terrabyte for free!
           
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          @longk so why don't you just drag and drop straight from your computer? :scratch: It saves uploading to PB and then downloading to GC.

          I don't put anything in the Cloud. I'm too old fashioned for that :old: and don't trust anything I can't put my hands on. My photos are backed up to three hard drives. Paranoid! Moi? :loll:
           
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          @shiney - there is a lot of my older photos on PB that were lost when the hard drive that they were on succumbed to coffee. Once I have the old pics back PB can swivel.

          In terms of safety of my photos that I care about cloud and an external device covers it for me.
           
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              I wouldn't trust my pictures to anyone else so they are kept within my computer and backed up with an external drive. However, when my computer gave up the ghost and I switched to Windows 10 with a new machine, the external drive was useless. Yes, all my pictures were on there but W10 would only accept the pictures one at a time. Not good when there are thousands! The chap that sorts my computer eventually loaded them by taking the hard drive out of my extinct computer and loading from that. :) I have kept that drive should I need it again.
               
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              When I had my computer upgraded, a few years ago, I had a new, bigger, hard drive installed but kept the old one in the computer as another back-up/copy. So I now have multiple back-ups. Probably a bit of overkill (with the external back-ups) but you can never be too paranoid when it comes to saving the photos and data. :heehee:

              We have something in excess of 70,000 photos and I know where to find all of them! :hate-shocked: The filing system in my head is still working OK. :old: :snork:
               
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                I never trust just one method so that is why I keep physical and virtual copies.
                 
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                  My internet is much too slow to upload a lot of data to the Cloud. They've recently brought fibre into the village and my upload speed has risen to a magnificent .8mg. :doh:
                   
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                    Modern technology Shiney, make the most of it! :heehee:
                     
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                      I do. :blue thumb: We didn't have anything like this in the Ark :noidea:
                       
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                        0.8 Milligrams? (tempted to post just how much stuff I used to be able to upload)
                         
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