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TinyPic being shut down by Photobucket (doors closing September 16.)

tomsit

tomsit

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TinyPic.com reports on their homepage that they are shutting down. Letting users know they have a limited time to download their images without bulk download possibility (doors are closing September 16.) This must be a nightmare to their dedicated users as they cannot download all their images in bulk(!). The bummer here is that Photobucket is the owner, so it seems they pulled the plug on the site to redirect old users onto their paid platform. For only $7.99/month (then you get unlimited access) It's just sad.

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They bought tinypic to get them out of the market and now they are shutting it down without giving users the option to easily access to their content (bulk). It seems that they strongly believe that people will just start using they service instead the one they just killed. How silly is that?

The also got a lot of favorable media, but read the comments in each entry to see how people actually feel.

The problem of Photobucket is that is a service that was used for hosting your stuff when there's was not way to share photos in forums and later in social media. Same did tinypic, imageshack, etc. They never reinvented themselves and I think that they won't be able to recover the forum market at all. After the $400 ransom incident, any respetable forum is now self-hosting their photos (same goes to people using it to host photos in eBay or whatever).

Thank good now they are actually selling plans, but the plan offering highlights too many "unlimited" terms for stuff that isn't unlimited. This is the traditional overselling model in action.

These people just don't learn.
 
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