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Willing victim of the Disney Snowball Effect...
Okay so after a coffee and lunch break I am back! 
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 Hello, everyone - and Happy Monday!First - I apologize for the delayed replies. I must admit that I didn't know some of these latest replies were here because - you guessed it - I didn't get e-mail alerts, and the last couple of times I popped over here to read updates in other folks' trip reports I didn't check my own TR! Second - Be sure you are not signed into the DIS as someone else! I don't know if TK, Dawn, PHX, Michele or anyone else here might recall, but last year (possibly while I was doing the June Cars Land preview TR, or just starting the "Aunt Betty..." TR??), fellow DIS'er deejdigsdis mentioned that when she was trying to comment on something in another thread she realized that she was somehow, mysteriously signed in as another DIS'er and she had no clue how it happened! I also recall reading a post from someone else on the board last year, stating that they had somehow been signed in as another person. Well, yesterday the same thing happened to me!   (<<I used both of those emoticons because it is both a funny and scary event at the same time.)I was going to sign in to the DIS to answer a message and post in a couple of my threads, but instead of signing in first I went to the Just For Fun/Community section of the board to see if a particular awards show thread had been started. (I've been tracking Bradley Cooper's red carpet appearances for the whole awards season, so I needed to know if he had been seen!   ) When I clicked on the thread I found to view it, and later went to the upper right corner of the page to actually sign in...I WAS SOMEHOW ALREADY SIGNED IN...AS SOMEONE ELSE!!!!! I'm not going to name the other DIS'er whose account I somehow inadvertently tapped into, but I had neither seen nor heard of this person before! As soon as I saw that it said "Welcome, [name of other DIS'er]," I quickly signed out! Thankfully, I had not posted anything (unknowingly) under that person's name, or tried to send a private message from that account or anything! Yikes! The scary thing is that this could easily happen to any of us on the board - someone else could accidentally end up in one of our accounts, posting under our names! I have no clue exactly how that sort of thing could happen - I assume it has to be a glitch in the server somewhere, but the fact that we know it was happening last year too (to at least a couple of folks) and is still happening is very scary! So my word of warning to everyone is - even if you think you are not signed in, but are just simply reading or viewing a thread you clicked on - be sure to look at the info in the upper right corner to see if you are signed in as someone else!! I didn't even think I was signed in as myself, let alone as another person - so imagine my shock when I saw that I was signed in, but under a totally different name! Again...yikes! Third - Photobucket is horrible. I am sooooo mad at them (as are thousands of other people). All I have to say is that it is a darn good thing I have basically already finished the December 2012 TR (I'm not counting the Wrap-Up post that I haven't yet done, which isn't really all that crucial) because if I were at a point now where I had to upload 1000+ photos to Photobucket to start the report, I would not be able to do it. And I won't be able to do any trip reports later this year unless Photobucket fixes what they have messed up, or unless I can find a suitable image hosting site to replace them. I know there are a lot of people out there on the DIS who are Photobucket users, either with the free accounts or the Pro/paid accounts. I have one free account and one Pro account. The Pro account - when I first bought into it - was supposed to have a lot of bandwidth so there would be no fear of exceeding my bandwidth limit and having my photos disappear from forums. Photobucket has changed its Pro accounts to "Plus" accounts and limited bandwidth anyway. BUT, worse than that is that they have now gotten rid of their old editor - which is okay because I don't really edit a lot of photos anyway - and changed their entire website layout. In the process of Photobucket's website layout change (massive overhaul), they have removed several vital features that I was paying for, such as being able to choose the size of the photos before I uploaded hundreds or thousands of them! I could choose the 640 x 480 size before I began the upload process. They have taken away that feature, and the default size they have chosen for my photos when I load them now is something much, much larger than what I need or want. In order to get my newly uploaded photos to be the size I want would mean that I have to go through each one, individually, and resize it.  If I come back from taking 300 or 500 or 700 or 1000 photos, I am surely NOT going to sit there and resize each one.What Photobucket has done by choosing this larger default size for photos is make it so that the bandwidth limits on everyone's accounts will be reached much faster - unless you pay them even more money to upgrade to a higher level of bandwidth, of course. Or, if I get too upset and stop loading my photos on their site, it saves them extra time and money in operational, maintenance costs...so they win that way too. Also, Photobucket has successfully managed to mess up the order/sequence of all of my photos in all of my albums. I had them all in "Sort by File Name" order, so the photos would fall in the order I took them. Now, they are all jumbled around, and because Photobucket has not yet reinstated the Sort by File Name option, I cannot put my photos back the way they were. I tried "Oldest First" for all of the albums, thinking that was better than nothing. It didn't help - everything is still out of order. It takes me forever to find even one photo in an album of 250 photos because everything is out of order. The new Photobucket site is also much slower than it was - and on my specific ancient PC, it is next to impossible to get anything done. All week long I have been trying to create some thumbnails for the first page of my Christmas Superthread, and have been met with one hurdle after another because of stupid Photobucket. Fourth - Photobucket shares photos that people don't want shared! Get this! Among the hundreds of angry complaints I have read from other Photobucket users - some of which included other people who post on forums, and who don't want the forced huge size of photos because the large photos take up too much space on their board and are hard to load with slower Internet connections - one or two complaints I read involved people who had either deleted or moved photos in their Photobucket accounts, or so they thought, only to go back to old threads they had posted in a long time ago and discover that Photobucket had 'replaced' the photos that had supposedly been deleted or moved with other photos in their accounts that were supposed to be private!!!! Again...yikes!!!!! So this means that if you guys, perhaps, posted something in the dining thread 2 years ago and had since removed or deleted that specific photo from your Photobucket account, Photobucket just MAY have replaced that photo in your old dining thread post with another photo from your account that you hadn't planned on sharing!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how scary that is? And I have to admit - even before I read about this happening to other people, I actually noticed an occurrence of this in a thread on the DIS fairly recently. Someone's photo in a thread had been replaced with another, totally inappropriate photo that they never posted here! I know they didn't post it here because I saw the original post when it came through! Photobucket put that image there in place of the one they had moved or deleted from their account!!! So, if you are someone who has ever posted in a thread on any forum using your Photobucket images and then ended up deleting or moving photos in your Photobucket accounts, you might just want to revisit some of your old threads and see if anything has been...um...'replaced.' Photobucket should be sued for that mess - letting people's private photos show up on forums in place of deleted photos! I hope they get sued. They should have coding and scripts in place to prevent that sort of thing from happening. But even aside from that blunder, just the simple fact that Photobucket has removed vital organizational/uploading features from their website and fixed it so that everyone will reach their bandwidth limit faster, everyone will have to take more time to upload, locate or do anything with their valuable photos and everyone is now angry with them is enough to make me want to seek out another hosting site that will offer the sorting and uploading features I need. I don't think that Flickr is any better, unfortunately. Anyway, I have been 'yelling at' Photobucket all week, as have hundreds (probably thousands) of other people in their Support/Feedback forums. Some of us have been tactful and articulate while expressing our disgust. Some others have just let the expletives fly! I was tempted to do that too, but there is that saying about 'catching more flies with honey,' and Photobucket doesn't really care about how they inconvenienced everyone and made everyone furious anyway...so what good does it do to curse at them? That doesn't mean I'm not thinking certain things, though! Quote:
I think you're still at DLR now, if I'm mot mistaken (or maybe just about to come back?), and hopefully enjoying a fabulous trip with a dose of Disney's style of Mardi Gras fun. And I hope you tracked down all of the masks! I know it took me forever to get on here and reply to you, and you probably won't have much time to check in here when you get back anyway. I just wanted you to know that I thoroughly enjoyed reading your above post! I was laughing out loud at times - about the creepy owl painting (I must see a photo of it!), about the Girls Gone Wild image of Mard Gras, etc. Also, your explanation of exactly what Mardi Gras is like in certain spots and at certain times, and how to prepare for it, etc., is extremely informative! If I were ever going to go to Mardi Gras I would want you to be my guide, or to navigate me through the blocked off streets, etc.! For some reason, when my former friend used to explain Mardi Gras to me it was never all that clear! It's good to know that a lot of what is believed about Mardi Gras is just totally wrong, or that it is not universally like that for the whole celebration. My former friend used to also tell me about how the stereotypes of New Orleans residents eating nothing but 'New Orleans food' all the time are untrue as well. He was saying that people have a perception that everyone in New Orleans is eating gumbo or crawfish or Cajun cuisine all the time (when at that specific moment he was driving to a Papa John's to pick up a pizza), just as people probably have an impression of Los Angeles residents eating tofu or strange health food dishes all the time. He said he had never even eaten what would be considered "New Orleans food" until the early '90s. Quote:
I'm glad to hear that your favorite golfer won! You're absolutely right - when a favorite wins anything (a tournament, a game, an award, etc.), it makes the event 100 times better! I'm also so glad to hear that your mom is doing well. I know you mentioned that you have a sister (the one who loves Christmas music year-round) - have you and your sister been helping your mom out or spending a lot of time with her? Thank you for going back to the November TR to have a second look/read - when I was working on the December 2012 TR I was hoping that any people totally new to my thread would realize that I was not skipping over Cars Land and Buena Vista Street, but that I had taken tons of photos of those 2 areas (as well as the Jingle Jangle Jamboree) in November and didn't want to force the same holiday photos on everyone all over again. So, because I did the November TR and the December TR - and those trips were really only like a month apart - I kind of look at them as one big TR combined, but with a gap in the middle! Quote:
I'm happy to see you posted here - I don't think you've posted in this TR thread in the past. Thank you for the compliment. I was certainly not the first person to take mask photos but I don't recall seeing any other mask photos that were quite as extensive and in-depth, I guess you could say. I know that Belle Ella/Jessica took quite a lot of mask photos a couple of years ago (I always give credit to those who came up with certain ideas or did certain things first), but I'm not even sure if there were as many masks on display at that time. I think that more have been added in since then, and I got the bonanza of them!! Anyway, I really wanted to take my time and try to get unusual vantage points, or frame the photos a bit differently. As I've mentioned, on each trip for the last few years I have tried to get something - even if it is just one photo - that is kind of unique, or that I haven't seen in anyone else's threads. The photos may end up being successful (or not), but I try. And I try to get at least a few pictures that I can look at and say, "I love that!" I'm my own worst critic, probably, by I can manage to like a few shots here and there. I should mention that I happened to notice a certain photo on the cover of a certain e-book last year, and that e-book was released in 2011, if I recall. I am almost positive - and I could be wrong, and it could be a HUGE coincidence - that the person who did this e-book found one of my 'different' photo ideas in my December 2010 "Evil Chair and Peppermint Cone of Death" TR and then took her own shot of the same thing, putting it on the cover of her book. I don't think she used my actual photo, but I think that she was probably lurking on the DIS - or posting actively, perhaps - or possibly was "doing research" on the Web and saw the photo in my TR if she stumbled upon the DIS. She probably liked the photo, thought it was a good idea and decided to get her own copy for the book. The timing of it is just too perfect. So, it's nice to know that there are people out there - silent or not - who like some of the photos I take or photo ideas I have. I take a lot of photos but I really do try to be creative now and again, about certain things, and if someone is inspired enough to want to get their own photo of the same thing(s), it is flattering! I hope you enjoy Goofy's Kitchen! I'll be waiting for the review! I don't know if you should trust my recommendation, though, because you listened to me about the holiday season at Disneyland and how wonderful it is - and you didn't end up having a great trip, as I recall! But I hope Goofy's is a big hit for your family. For one thing, you might get the extra bonus of seeing an extra Princess or two there, in addition to seeing them at Ariel's. Usually there are a couple of Princesses running around at Goofy's in addition to the other characters. There could be anywhere from 5 - 8 characters onsite. Also, the buffet is very large and there is a good selection for the kids and adults.One other thing - I saw you ask Laurie/DizNee Luver about getting the PPH park view room in her TR. While I would definitely say that specifically paying for a park view room at the PPH is the best way to guarantee you get that view, I have been lucky to have been upgraded (for free) to a park view for my last 3 PPH stays (and many others have gotten free upgrades too). My 2010 and 2011 views were even better than my December 2012 view. I've stayed at the PPH a lot (first time was in 2000), but never received free upgrades until 2010. So you might get lucky and get a great view even if you don't specifically pay for the view. I suggest doing a pre-check in at the PPH as early in the morning as you can manage (way, way before actual check-in time), because that will put you on their "list" of people to call if a room opens up ahead of time. They make a note in their system to call you if a room is ready early, and often times that room will be a park view. If you show up closer to when the actual check-in time is, you are probably just going to get the room that has been pre-assigned to you. Quote:
Thank you so much for joining in before this thread closes! I knew there had to be some lurkers out there who would eventually pop in and say hello before I hit that dreaded 250-page mark. Thank you for the compliments - I'm so glad you enjoyed the photos.  The last time I passed by or through Pacific Wharf I noticed a lot of other things that I hadn't even paid attention to on previous trips but didn't have much time or incentive to take more photos at that moment. (I guess those can be tackled on a future trip!) There really is a lot of attention to detail in that area too - just as is the case for all of the areas in both parks - but I think that because the 'colors' (or lack thereof) are so drab and bland, and everything just looks so...wharf-y...people just don't appreciate how well-themed it is. I think we probably take it for granted because it's not bright and vibrant. Yes, yes, yes - by all means, do a Christmas trip! If I could not go to DLR at any other time of year, Christmas time would be my one trip for the whole year - even if it's just a day trip and nothing else. If I couldn't go to DLR for a few years and finally made a return, Christmas time would be the one time I would prefer to go over any other time. It's a really special, beautiful time to be there, and the decor is so thorough and extensive. The details are amazing, too, from the themed music in each land and the holiday goodies, the different styles of Christmas trees, IASW Holiday, etc. I love Halloween Time too, but until Disney starts doing more with it the holiday season is at the top of my list! Be sure to subscribe to my "Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread" on the main Disneyland forum for info, discussion and breaking news. Plus, in August I will begin our Third Annual Theme Week Countdown, when we focus on a different theme or aspect of the holiday season each week and everyone shares their photos from that theme. It's a lot of fun!  
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 Christmas Time Trip Reports "The Evil Chair & The Peppermint Cone of Death - A 2010 Christmas Tale" (begins on Page 83/Post #1244; ends on Page 110/Post #1641) "Aunt Betty's Weepy, Wacky, Wonderful Christmas Trip to Disneyland- Dec. 2011" (begins on Page 189/Post #2825; ends on Page 213/Post #3181) CHRISTMAS PHOTOS OF CARS LAND & BUENA VISTA ST. - 11/12/12 (begins on Page 222/Post #3328; ends on Page 231/Post #3464) "Candlelight & Cannonballs! (MANY MARDI GRAS MASK PICTURES!) -12/9/12 - 12/12/12" - begins on Page 235/Post #3524 (in progress!)   Halloween Time Trip Reports"The Return of the Masked Mouse & His Diabolical Twin- Halloween Time 2011" (begins on Page 145/Post #2170; ends on Page 155/Post #2312) Other Trip Reports:  Catalina Island/Avalon - My Solo Day Trip, in Photos (LOTS of Photos!)- 7/21/12 |
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02-11-2013, 01:07 PM
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Prayers and pixie dust from your friends on the DIS
Hugs I have been flipping all around the internet 
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Oh that is too crazy! I made sure that I am signed in as me.
I think emoticons are very appropriate.I never have a problem with photobucket.  But, I know several people that have. It is an iffy thing. I did find out that I can store pictures on Costco. I may do that next trip. If there is ever another trip.
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Willing victim of the Disney Snowball Effect...
Okay so after a coffee and lunch break I am back!
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Remember to check the sign-in area in the corner even when you don't think you're signed in at all. I hadn't signed in as anyone yesterday, not even myself! - I only opened up the BAFTA awards thread to read it - and there I was, signed in as another DIS'er! A lot of these Photobucket problems have just now come up and are coming up because Photobucket has just begun to force everyone into their new format, little by little, whereas they had given us the option to stick with the old site until last week - and the new format has fewer features so people are flipping out because they paid for certain services (you should go to the Support/Feedback section of Photobucket and see the pages and pages of angry complaints under a couple of the threads! , not to mention read the hundreds of comments on their Facebook page in the last week or two). Photobucket apparently did not work out the bugs in the new system when they began 'testing it' last year, and they forced everyone into it when it is still totally incomplete. That's why people are furious. For example, if I come back from a DLR trip and have 1500 photos to upload, I can no longer choose the 640 x 480 size before the photos upload (640 x 480 is, I think, sort of supposed to be the universal photo size for discussion forums, but many, many, many people on our board post larger photos). Photobucket has defaulted me to a much larger size, thus causing me to hit my bandwidth limit (on a Pro account) faster because the larger photos take up more space. I would have to literally go through every photo and resize each one to get it to the 640 x 480 size before posting it in a TR, which is insane. And I can't do the huge photos in my TR because my PC will freeze up. I've seen a couple of other folks from message boards posting on Photobucket's site, talking about the same thing - where is the size pre-selection tool - and Photobucket either ignores it or says "We'll see if we can add it..." Meanwhile, they've had that tool for years before this switch! Also, I can't get my photos in the order I need them to be because they messed it all up. Imagine having 75 albums on a site and all of the photos in each one are messed up and out of order! Apparently they have messed up a lot of other albums in folks' accounts too. But...knowing that Photobucket has been 'replacing' photos in threads that people deleted or moved with other private photos from their accounts is realllly scary. That's why I wonder what kinds of photos may be lurking in some of our older threads here on the DIS, like the dining thread! Surely some of those older photos have been deleted/moved from the Photobucket accounts, but Photobucket may have 'replaced' the moved/deleted photos with other photos! I stumbled upon a really DISboards-inappropriate photo in a thread a few weeks ago, and I deleted it right away because it was not what the person had actually posted there. It was one of those 'replacement' photos put there because of Photobucket's horrible, faulty website switcheroo! Lord only knows what might lurk in some of the older photo threads now! Maybe all of the Photobucket mess will be sorted out and you won't have to deal with it by the time of your next DLR trip - and you WILL take another trip. (I can't believe it's already been a year since the last trip you took!) Right now, the functions take about 10 times longer to complete and everything is a chore. All flippin' week I have been trying to just resize some photos to thumbnails to put on Page 1 of the Superthread and it is one endless problem after another.I looked at Image Shack - they DO allow you to pre-select the size you want before uploading. But do they give you IMG codes for posting on forums, I wonder? If so, then bye, bye Photobucket! 
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Christmas Time Trip Reports"The Evil Chair & The Peppermint Cone of Death - A 2010 Christmas Tale" (begins on Page 83/Post #1244; ends on Page 110/Post #1641) "Aunt Betty's Weepy, Wacky, Wonderful Christmas Trip to Disneyland- Dec. 2011" (begins on Page 189/Post #2825; ends on Page 213/Post #3181) CHRISTMAS PHOTOS OF CARS LAND & BUENA VISTA ST. - 11/12/12 (begins on Page 222/Post #3328; ends on Page 231/Post #3464) "Candlelight & Cannonballs! (MANY MARDI GRAS MASK PICTURES!) -12/9/12 - 12/12/12" - begins on Page 235/Post #3524 (in progress!) Halloween Time Trip Reports"The Return of the Masked Mouse & His Diabolical Twin- Halloween Time 2011" (begins on Page 145/Post #2170; ends on Page 155/Post #2312) Other Trip Reports: Catalina Island/Avalon - My Solo Day Trip, in Photos (LOTS of Photos!)- 7/21/12 |
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Well Sherry - that is kind of terrifying on all accounts. I hope I don't accidentally get signed in as someone else or someone else doesn't get signed in as me - that could cause all sorts of confusion! Also, alternative pictures being posted - wow that could get exciting!! Fortunately, I don't have pictures in a photo sharing site but if I did boy I would be a little worried - Yikes
 Yes - you have such a good memory!! I do have a sister (two actually) but one that I've mentioned her. My mom and dad are actually staying at her house while my mom recovers. They live in a small town here in Arizona and she did NOT want to have the surgery there so she came down to Phoenix.  LSULINDY - I also found your view of Mardi Gras interesting because all I've ever seen are the Bourbon Street pictures/videos and seriously have never wanted to be anywhere near New Orleans during that time - totally not my scene. Your info sounds really fun and like something I would completely enjoy - thank you for sharing. Have a great week Sherry!
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Willing victim of the Disney Snowball Effect...
Okay so after a coffee and lunch break I am back!
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I think that by the time deejdigsdis noticed that she was signed in as another person last year, she had already posted something or sent a message from their account. She realized after the fact that she was signed in as the other person, and then had to send that other person a message to let them know that she had posted as them! Thankfully, I managed to catch on to the fact that I was signed in as someone else yesterday and hadn't posted yet. But yes - it's scary all around, how easily that can happen. Anyone can somehow accidentally end up in someone else's account without even realizing it. And the alternative photos thing is a major blunder by Photobucket! Yes, it could be very exciting, indeed...which is what I would think a lot of people might be afraid of if it doesn't get fixed. The changes they are making to their site are bad enough because they are taking away features that their users depended on, but compromising the privacy of some of their users by letting 'other' photos appear online in place of photos that were moved or deleted is just crazy!Basically, these two examples I have shared today - the DISboards/sign-in weirdness and the Photobucket madness - show that we really shouldn't be doing anything online at all! Any info we store online anywhere - even if we think it's safe, secure or private or whatever - could easily be lost forever or compromised somehow, in the blink of an eye! I definitely remember you mentioning your sister and how she likes to listen to Christmas music all year round! As much as I love me some Christmas music (remember, I did that survey in which I had to listen to over 600 Christmas songs last year), I do have to have a bit of a break from it after the holidays are over. Like, for example, right now I couldn't really listen to holiday songs. I have to get to summer before feeling the need to speed ahead to the holiday season! I'm glad your parents are able to stay with your sister while your mom recovers. It's probably a great comfort to them to be able to stay there! You have a great week as well - and a great Valentine's Day too!
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Christmas Time Trip Reports"The Evil Chair & The Peppermint Cone of Death - A 2010 Christmas Tale" (begins on Page 83/Post #1244; ends on Page 110/Post #1641) "Aunt Betty's Weepy, Wacky, Wonderful Christmas Trip to Disneyland- Dec. 2011" (begins on Page 189/Post #2825; ends on Page 213/Post #3181) CHRISTMAS PHOTOS OF CARS LAND & BUENA VISTA ST. - 11/12/12 (begins on Page 222/Post #3328; ends on Page 231/Post #3464) "Candlelight & Cannonballs! (MANY MARDI GRAS MASK PICTURES!) -12/9/12 - 12/12/12" - begins on Page 235/Post #3524 (in progress!) Halloween Time Trip Reports"The Return of the Masked Mouse & His Diabolical Twin- Halloween Time 2011" (begins on Page 145/Post #2170; ends on Page 155/Post #2312) Other Trip Reports: Catalina Island/Avalon - My Solo Day Trip, in Photos (LOTS of Photos!)- 7/21/12 |
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02-11-2013, 08:28 PM
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Mouseketeer since birth!
I am lucky to have kids who also love Disney and a husband who loves it (and us) enough to humor my passion! 
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Uggh about Photobucket. I have been reducing my image size in Picasa before I export and upload to Photobucket, but now that I consider the mass amount of photos I will probably upload after our March trip, it could be a royal pain. I have noticed that Photobucket's order of my photos seems totally random, not by when the photo was taken or when it was uploaded. On a small scale it's just annoying; on a large scale it could be horrific.
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02-11-2013, 08:54 PM
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It can be annoying when someone else uses your account when you have no knowledge of it. I don't like to sign in every time when I am on the DISer account which I have my computer, iPad and iPhone where I am signed in automatically and just like you said that someone could use my devices and say something that I won't know about.
I have never used Photobucket and after reading your latest about it, I am glad that I don't use Photobucket. I am using flickr and it is so fun to use and easy to install. The only downside of using flickr is that you are limited of uploading pictures unless you buy the subscription so you can upload as many pictures all in one time. I have uploaded thousands of pictures from all my trips and food porn which I am glad that I am using flickr.
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Willing victim of the Disney Snowball Effect...
Okay so after a coffee and lunch break I am back!
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PHX - The problem with the "new and improved" Photobucket site (what a joke that term is) is that it's not user-friendly at all. As you said, on a small scale it would be annoying to deal with resizing. On a large scale it is awful now. It was not awful before, but it is now that they are forcing everyone into the new website. I'm not even just saying all this because I'm mad at Photobucket. I've tried to find the 'advantages' or benefits of the new format and there are none. Not one single thing is "better." They have reduced the functionality (which many people pay for), removed several important features (such as the Sorting options, which would put your photos and my photos in their proper order, as well as being able to choose the photo size before uploading) and made everything harder to use. They've messed up the order of everyone's photos. They've flat out lost some other people's photos. They'e somehow allowed private photos to appear on public forums. Everything now takes longer to accomplish on the site. It even takes longer to simply view an album because of the awful infinite scroll. When you're trying to scroll through 250 photos in one album - and they are all out of order because you can't sort them the right way - the infinite scroll in a nightmare! There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of angry people complaining to Photobucket on their Support/Feedback forum and on their Facebook page in just the last 2 weeks because sooooo many things are wrong with the site. Occasionally someone from Photobucket will pop in and give a bogus "We're working on it; let us know what features you need and thanks for being so passionate about Photobucket" type of answer...which only prompts a near revolt in the forums! They should have had all of this worked out before forcing people to the new site.It seems like Photobucket is aiming to push people into using up so much bandwidth (even the paying users) that they will have to pay for even more bandwidth and then Photobucket gets more money, OR the users will reach their bandwidth limits, get fed up and leave the site for good - which would free up tons of bandwidth for Photobucket, and save Photobucket extra time and money in operations and maintenance for everyone's albums. They are certainly not doing things in such a way that implies they want to keep customers. They appear to want to chase a lot of people - even the paying people - away. Also, Photobucket is kind of setting itself up to be a place where only the casual photo-taker goes - like the people who take the occasional cell phone photos and want to share them. They are not really set up or functional enough at this point for the users who work with photos and work on photo-based projects all the time. Their current roster of features is not conducive to large quantities of photos. They are kind of treating it as though the average person just takes 10 or 20 photos and not much else. Image Shack lets you pre-choose the photo size before uploading - I just don't know if Image Shack gives IMG codes to post photos on forums. Quote:
It's a very discomforting feeling to know that any one of us could easily end up signed into someone else's account or have someone else end up in our accounts! There is no reason that should be happening - I guess it's just a glitch in the server somewhere - and yet it happened to Deejdigsdis and at least one other person last year, and it happened to me just yesterday! I have no clue how I ended up signed in as this other DIS'er when all I did was click on a thread but there I was, signed in as that person! So definitely be sure to always check the info in the upper right corner - even if you think you're not signed in and are maybe just reading threads silently, you could be signed in as someone else without knowing it! Yikes! Photobucket was a pretty good site for a long time, even though the site was often slow-moving. Now, though, I truly think they want to get rid of a lot of their customers and cater to the mobile phone photo-takers, not the serious picture-takers. I'm glad you posted, Bret, because I had been planning on going to your TR in the next couple of days to ask you specifically about Flickr. I remembered that you use Flickr - and you obviously have lots and lots of photos stored there - so I knew there had to be some advantage to it. If you can take as many photos as you do and keep them all on Flickr with no problems, I knew there had to be something good about it. Tell me this about Flickr - with a paid subscription, can you sort the albums the way you want them, like by file name or by number or whatever? And, can you pre-select the size of the photos (640 x 480, 860 x 680, 1028 x 800, etc.) before you upload them, so if you are loading 1000 photos to your Flickr account the photos will load in the size you want? Those are the two main things I need - to be able to organize/sort my albums by file name or in the order that I want, and to be able to pre-select the sizes of the photos before loading. I can't go through and resize every single photo after it is loaded. Image Shack appears to have the size uploading option that I need, and if I find out that they also provide IMG codes for photos to be shared, I'll jump ship and ditch Photobucket for Image Shack. I don't think that Photobucket cares if they lose many, many customers at this point.
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Christmas Time Trip Reports"The Evil Chair & The Peppermint Cone of Death - A 2010 Christmas Tale" (begins on Page 83/Post #1244; ends on Page 110/Post #1641) "Aunt Betty's Weepy, Wacky, Wonderful Christmas Trip to Disneyland- Dec. 2011" (begins on Page 189/Post #2825; ends on Page 213/Post #3181) CHRISTMAS PHOTOS OF CARS LAND & BUENA VISTA ST. - 11/12/12 (begins on Page 222/Post #3328; ends on Page 231/Post #3464) "Candlelight & Cannonballs! (MANY MARDI GRAS MASK PICTURES!) -12/9/12 - 12/12/12" - begins on Page 235/Post #3524 (in progress!) Halloween Time Trip Reports"The Return of the Masked Mouse & His Diabolical Twin- Halloween Time 2011" (begins on Page 145/Post #2170; ends on Page 155/Post #2312) Other Trip Reports: Catalina Island/Avalon - My Solo Day Trip, in Photos (LOTS of Photos!)- 7/21/12 |
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There are a lot of people taking pictures with their cameras instead of the point & shoot, DSLR, etc. today. I do take some pictures with my iPhone when I don't have my camera but as you know that I will depend on my DSLR when I take pictures at the park. I am really far behind on my trip reports including my January trip where I want to get to it as soon as possible. I have used flickr ever since I have started writing my trip reports since 2009. I like the service of flickr where I can upload as many pictures and videos as possible with a selection of the size of the pictures. With the paid description of flickr. The Flickr Pro offers access to your original files, unlimited uploads, unlimited storage, and unlimited bandwith which is very nice. The free account let's you have 300 MB of monthly photo uploading which is not that much in compare to the unlimited uploads. It costs about $25 a year for the subscription but I am able to upload all my photos from my trips so I can show them to my family and friends as well as showing them on my trip reports. You can sort the pictures by files but I haven't done that yet recently since I just upload them. The sizes can go as small as 75 x 75 and go all the way up to the original size which my Nikon D5100 SLR goes up to 4928 x 3264. If I try to upload my picture at that size you will not be able to see the whole picture on your computer screen. Even my monitor which is a 28 inch does not even come close to showing the whole picture. The Flickr Pro lets you organize/sort the albums by name in the order that you want and to be able to pre-select the size of the photo as you want. When you see my photos I always try to get them at a fine size where it is not too big. As you know in the past that I always try to make my pictures a decent size for you and other DISers so they can see them. The only problem about flickr is that if you want to upload a lot of pictures you have to get the flickr pro subscription or be limited with only 300 MB of monthly photo uploading limit with the free account. At first when I used the free account, I was unable to upload a lot of pictures. Ever since I got the flickr pro subscription it has been great to use and upload all those pictures. I have never used Image Shack and hope that it all goes well for you.
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Thank you so much for all the great info about Flickr. In the various complaint threads on Photobucket's forums I've seen a few people say that they had originally moved their pictures to Photobucket from Flickr, so that's why I wasn't sure what was wrong with Flickr (if anything). But, again, knowing how many photos you take and how many you have to load to your photo hosting site, I knew it had to work fairly well. I may or may not switch any of my existing Photobucket photos to Flickr (that would be a LOT of broken links here on the DIS), OR I may just wait until I take an all-new round of photos (of whatever subject) and load those to Flickr. I have only briefly glanced at Image Shack so I haven't tried loading anything there yet to see if they generate IMG codes. As long as I can pre-select the upload size (640 x 480 is the size I use and that's really the maximum size that a lot of message boards require their users to stick with, as I have learned in the last week and a half from some angry Photobucket users who run discussion forums) and sort the photos in the album by the file name, those are my main concerns and I don't mind paying the $25 or whatever. Right now, I am about to tear my hair out over this stupid Photobucket. You know, I have been slowly but surely revising the first page (9 posts) of the Christmas Superthread - just working on little things in certain posts here and there, and jumping around between posts to add things in or take things out, and adding in thumbnails to certain posts (like the Holiday Treats post, the Hotels/DTD post, the Holiday Shopping post, etc.). I'm not finished with the Superthread at all yet, but just the simple task of trying to create the thumbnails for the posts has been a huge ordeal because of Photobucket's madness in the last couple of weeks. They slowed down my progress so much when they messed up the order of my photos so I can't find anything, and they have put this obnoxious infinite scroll on the pages so it takes forever to load all the photos in one album. All I am doing is resizing the photos and adding borders, and it has taken this long just to get thumbnails for a couple of posts because nothing is working properly!  I have two more posts to make thumbnails for and at this rate it will probably take me another 2 weeks just to get them finished if Photobucket doesn't shape up fast.
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Hi Sherry,
It is soooo frustrating when technology fails and slows down our fun. I'm intrigued by flikr too. Bret, has it run pretty smoothly for you?I've never had an issue with Photobucket but then again I'm a casual user. Got to have something reliable in place when I talk my guys into a DL Christmas vacation this year!  TK
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You may not use the features that others use (like choosing the size of photos before uploading), or you may not be on Photobucket very often. You may not have been switched to the all-new website. I'm not sure. All of the specific Photobucket problems I have been describing for the last 2 days have just started to come up in the last 2 weeks for thousands and thousands of people - many of whom have paid for a certain range of services. Those services/features are either now totally gone, or they are so faulty and flawed that no one can use them. Photobucket switched everyone to a whole new website before they had the new one finished. It is not only slowing down fun, unfortunately. As I have discovered, there are many, many people who use their Photobucket images to post listings on eBay, to write regular articles, to write blogs, to run websites or forums or to make edits to designs or art. These massive errors on Photobucket's part have impeded people's progress in getting their actual work done - and it doesn't look like anything is going to be fixed and back to normal for months. Most of the stuff I do here on the DIS - my TR, my Superthreads, my Theme Week Countdowns, etc. - revolves around my images on Photobucket...and the crucial features I use and pay for have been taken away, as well as the order of my photos has now been totally messed up to where I cannot find anything. Imagine how hard it will be for me to create Theme Weeks for the countdown when I can't locate my photos quickly and easily! Anyway, it's a mess...
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Sherry,
That is beyond awful. PB tried to change me to the new site and I clicked 'no'. The random posting of photographs is deplorable. I may leave my PB account and then start a new one in flikr going forward. Sorry you've had such a rotten experience. This should be FUN right?
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They will switch you over without a choice very soon - I think it's something like a couple more weeks or so before everyone is forced to the new site. They seem to be rolling people into it, in groups at a time. They pushed me there because I was editing photos and making thumbnails for the first several posts of the Christmas Superthread and they wanted me to use their "new and improved" editor. I was forced to the new site, only to find out that they messed up the order of all of my thousands and thousands of photos and that the editor doesn't work. Since Photobucket won't have all of the necessary features reinstated for a long time time...well, let's just say that Photobucket can probably expect to be inundated with even more angry posts in their Support/Feedback forums for a long time to come, and they have already received thousands of complaints. That is the one bright spot in this debacle - some of the posts by furious Photobucket users on Facebook and on the Support forums are hilarious! I think that one girl said she'd rather go and stand in the middle of traffic and get hit by a truck (though she put it much more humorously than that) than to use this "new" Photobucket. I have been enjoying reading the flood of angry messages to Photobucket since last week.I am a paying user of Photobucket and their new mess will interfere with everything I do on this forum, but I really, really I feel awful for the ones who not only pay BUT who are also using their stored images for eBay sales, paid articles and blogs, running their businesses, etc. There are a lot of people who depend on Photobucket's services to run their businesses, as I've learned. And you know what the screwy thing is? These people - whose actual work and livelihoods are being interrupted - can't even legally file a class action lawsuit because Photobucket has some fine print somewhere on their site that says, basically 'if you use the new site, then that means you have accepted the new site,' or some hogwash. So that means that anyone who has tried to use the new site and figure it out has "accepted" it and cannot sue them!! Let's not even get into the fact that Photobucket has allowed some folks' private images to become public and to show up on public forums - I would bet that they fixed it so they can't be sued for that either!!
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Your welcome Sherry. Before I went with Flickr fully, I have heard about Photobucket from other people and I thought that this would be a good site to use over Flickr for uploading pictures and showing them on the threads. But since I use Yahoo mail so much, I went with Flickr which is part of the Yahoo company. Even paying $25 a month for the Flickr Pro, it is a good investment for someone who uploads a lot of pictures and videos and show them to the people. Switching from one site to another is a lot of work and finding the links for those pictures on Photobucket will be hard where you have posted a lot of pictures on the threads. You can always leave the old pictures on Photobucket and put all the new photos on Flickr which will be easy. Also you can post some of your favorite photos to Flickr so you won't have to worry about them. Even though I haven't use the full settings on Flickr, it is a really good investment in my opinion and you can select the size of the picture. As you already know that I do appreciate all the hard work you have done on the Superthreads that give valuable information about the two season at the DLR which is so fun to go to. Hope everything goes well with you on the threads. TK Flickr is running smoothly for me TK. As I have said to Sherry that I use Flickr to store all my photos online so you and other people can enjoy them. I should be setting the pictures up in galleries and sets. But I just like to upload them to Flickr and look for them shortly. This does take a long time to look for them but I know where they are located on the site. I have over 26,000 pictures uploaded on my Flickr ever since 2009 which is a lot of pictures.
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