I've been using Flickr and it's awesome. But now I'm worried about old TRs! I don't even know if I'd remember my photobucket login.
Ugh, you must have used Photobucket early on? I know you use Flickr now and it seems like it works well from what I can see. I actually clicked through a bunch of random TRs the other day and it looks like a good chunk of the DIS is using Flickr.
What is that sign for?!?!
From what I've seen, the state of CA has laws that require everyone be warned about everything. Like I know that we've bought random (pretty innocent seeming) products with labels that say "California wants you to know this could kill you" (or similar
). So, I guess that we might die from visiting Disneyland, but that seems like a decent way to go, I suppose.
I'm willing to take that chance.
I love these benches!!!! And I love that you take pictures of just about everything on your trips! I really need to step up my game on our next trip.
Haha, I was actually just thinking about the picture thing today as I was working with the pictures from my early trip reports. Our first trip as a couple (Dec. 2009), there were only like 20-something pictures I posted for a whole day! But, that was also prior to everyone carrying around a smartphone with camera. Now I take WAYYYYY too many (and Dug always has
). You should see how many more pictures I have that I don't even post.
I do make an effort to take a lot of random photos, though, so I can piece our movements together post-trip when I make notes (I am not very good at making notes during the trips).
It was!
She is SUPER excited to meet him! Love it.
And I doubt she even knew who he was.
So fun!
A girl after my own heart!
Man that was a lot of Chip & Dale! Izzy seemed to love all of it!
They are the best - we have had SO many great times with Chip and Dale over the years.
I feel bad for everyone with the photo bucket accounts. I just started using disboards, and have just been uploading directly to the site. I can't image having to go back and re-upload all your photos! I hope you (and everybody else) find a good alternate!
Thanks, it's such a pain! When I started doing TRs, there was never an option to upload directly. And now I don't want to use it, as I can't imagine how many posts my reports would be if I had to limit each one to 10 pictures.
Anyway, yeah, I am really not looking forward to this project.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm gonna go save my old trip report.
No problem!
If you have a Mac, id suggest going to each post and selecting "print" then down in the lower left corner select "PDF" and then "save to PDF"
You can save each individual post as a PDF and save your trip report that way.
I actually have done that, though need to make sure I'm up to date. Back when the DIS changed platforms, I got paranoid and saved everything like that. And I'm glad I did, as they screwed up a lot of my old punctuation in the transition.
There may be an easier way too. I'll do some investigating.
Let me know if you find anything helpful.
Howdy! Just caught up on your TR - love all the pictures and the little details you give. Izzy was a dynamo on that first day! We stayed at the Park Place in way back in 2005 when our kiddos were 3 & 6yrs old respectively and the short walk was really nice.
Thanks! She did great traveling and we had a blast on day 1. LOVED that short walk...spoiled me forever.
Bummer about PhotoBucket going to that high-priced model, Imgur or Tinypic are good alternatives from what I hear.
Thanks! I just don't get the decisions they made. I mean, someone who (in theory) only has like 20 pictures in Photobucket, but all linked into forums, is never going to be able to justify $400/year to stay with them. They should have thought this through better.
I've been using
Smugmug.com for years. I have the basic plan, which runs $5.99 per month or $3.99 per month if you pay a year at a time. For that I can upload unlimited pictures and videos. They originally started as a picture backup site, so your pictures are replicated to 3 different datacenters in the US, but they do so much more. I mainly use them for backing up and sharing my photos. They have an app that automatically uploads the pictures we take on our phones, so I don't have to worry about something crashing on my phone and losing my pictures. They also make it very easy to share photos, for example for our recent trip to Disneyland, I created a password on our Disney pictures folder. That allowed me to send my daughter a link that automatically opened a web uploader for her to share her pictures to that gallery. It's also super simple to download all of the pictures from a gallery, if you want to work on them locally. And they offer print services, so we've used them for Christmas cards several years.
Thank you so much for the info on this! I've seen this recommended in other places as well and decided to try the free trial - seems great, so far! I don't mind the small fee, as I currently pay a small fee for Photobucket (and smugmug seems to work much better than photobucket ever did). Also, that comment about sharing photos is super helpful! We did a joint trip with another DIS-er (
@Imagineer5 ) in December and still haven't managed to share our photos with each other, so this would be perfect!
Hmm. I've started using Imgur, and I like it fine. But I don't know how reliably it will remain free over time, since I didn't expect this issue with Photobucket. I'm in the same boat about not wanting to re-link all my photos, but I don't have nearly as many as you would! Good luck!
Yeah, I'm wary of the free ones now because they may follow suit. And, heck, I'm a paying subscriber of Photobucket, but I'm still not going to be able to maintain my links past next year. I kind-of don't trust anyone to maintain my photo links now.
And, yeah, there are a LOT to re-link. Ugh.
Izzy clearly had a great time with the characters at breakfast. Chip and Dale are the best for interaction. I remember years ago Hannah jumping off the train when she spotted Meeko.
Ha, cute! Yes, we consistently have great experiences with Chip and Dale! Love them!
I use Flickr for my trip reports and find it works well. It must be so frustrating for people who have so many photos linked to photo bucket.
Thanks! Definitely frustrating and maddening.
I've switched to Imgur and am slowly switching my photos to that site. However, from the chatter I've heard, I'm just delaying the inevitable; it seems more and more sites are going the route of photobucket. (The reason I chose Imgur over flickr is because I read flickr is trying to switch to a subscription-based company, as well.) It's a frustrating scenario...all those old photos have to be swapped.
Such a pain. When I joined, Photobucket was THE place to store photos for the DIS. And now it's hard to know where they'll be safe. I hope the other companies take note of the backlash against Photobucket's poorly thought out plan and do better. But, yeah, I don't know how I'm going to find time to swap out all those old photos. As it is, I haven't even found time to set up chapter links in this TR.
But, hey, I guess if I have to go back into my old posts, maybe I can fix all the punctuation that got screwed up a couple years back when the DIS migrated.
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Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! I've been working on the photo hosting issue a bit. I started by removing all of like 12 photos I had in a very old free Photobucket account and shutting it down with a lovely note to Photobucket about how misguided they are. Most of those photos were from my VERY FIRST report on the DIS!! Because there were so few, I actually went into the posts and inserted them directly into the DIS. And it seems to work just fine. If you are interested in a short and entirely different report, feel free to check out this guy: https://www.disboards.com/threads/m...by-a-13-and-9-year-old.2367668/#post-34940632 It's great for nostalgia too!
Beyond that, I decided to sign up for the free trial of Smugmug and that seems to be working quite well from my 1 day of testing. Unless I find an issue, I will probably move my other free Photobucket pictures over there and re-link my first few reports. Just wondering, do you guys still see the photos in the early ones, like this one? https://www.disboards.com/threads/the-last-minute-super-bargain-bonus-trip-9-11-update-the.2541655/ I do, but wasn't sure if there were just cached on my computer or something.
Since Dec. 2010, I've used the paid account, so I'm not going to worry too much about those until, well, next year sometime? I will probably upload the photos into Smugmug, but save the re-linking projects for later. For the time being, I'm going to work on my next update with Photobucket, as I have the pictures ready there, but might switch over the new updates soon.
And one more trial thing. Apparently Smugmug handles uploading videos much better than Photobucket, so I'm debating if I link them there or keep using (free) Vimeo for those. So, here's a video I found in my old account and am testing how it posts here. But it also reminds me how much cooler we used to be pre-parenthood. Enjoy:
Hmmmm, looks like I can't actually embed it here, so may be sticking with Vimeo. But I'll leave it here anyway for fun.