Nary a day goes by, that these boards aren’t full of links to photos on photobucket, and I am never able to view them. The images just don’t show up when I click the link.
(I normally run my browser with JavaScript disabled, but I know to enable it before going to these links. Still doesn’t work.)
I am using Ubuntu Linux Release 9.10, with Gnome 2.28.1, and Firefox 3.6.9. Yes, I know that’s old. So what? There are plenty upon plenty of other sites where I can see images just fine, including my own where I’ve posted links to images like this one several times? (Uh… Y’all can see that, right?) There’s plenty of sites with plenty of images I can see, many of them even with JS disabled, so why should photobucket be so fucked up that I can’t?
I’m not sure if I’m having the same problem with a lot of other image-sharing sites like that. I haven’t been paying much attention to which is which. Usually, if an image doesn’t show up on first click (even without JavaScript), I just say fuck it.
Not to point out the obvious, but maybe Windows, JS and a browser that’s about 18 versions newer the the one you have.
Okay, I don’t know anything, at all, about Ubantu (or Linux at all), but your browser’s, like, way old. FF is up to 21. If you really don’t want to update it and you really like 3, maybe at least try downloading the current version of Chrome or Opera or something just to see if Photobucket will run with a current browser on your setup. Then, at least, you could narrow it down to FF3.6.9 and/or not running JS (depending on if you block JS with the other browser).
For what it’s worth, I’m on a Mac running the latest version of Mac OS X and the latest versions of several different browsers, and half the time I can’t even get PhotoBucket to load the damn page, let alone the images.
I use Firefox with NoScript, and I generally have to temp-enable script on the page at least once, sometimes twice & then refresh the page. It does seem balky these days.
I also use Firefox (latest version, 22.0) with script blockers, etc., and I’ve never been able to successfully view a Photobucket page regardless of the settings I change. I don’t even try any more.
I’m also running MAC OS X 10.8.4 (the latest version) and about 90% of the time, the Photobucket page loads but it doesn’t display the image. Re-loading the page has no effect.
I think with photobucket, problems can sometimes be caused by the posted link being a link to their mobile version, which doesn’t work quite correctly when a desktop user follows it.
As a side note, I really wish that people would just use imgur instead when uploading photos. It never seems to give me any trouble, whereas I have endless trouble with Photobucket. (Mac OS X 10.8.4, problem occurs in both Chrome and Safari, which are both updated to current.)
I’ve had links to pictures that work, but when I try and look at the next picture (or any other picture in an album), I get the page but not the picture. I use Safari (I didn’t mention that in my previous post).
What I’m seeing in this thread so far, is that a LOT of people have trouble viewing images there. Looks like it isn’t just me, and isn’t just my paleobrowser. Maybe it’s people posting links to a mobile version of their photo page, that won’t come up on a desktop?
Digital is the new Analog, can you tell us what it is about your environment that does work with photobucket?
Suggestion for all Dopers: Seems lots of people out there can’t view pictures at photobucket. If you want to post links to your pics, find someplace else to put them.
I personally never post images to a website that won’t allow a direct link to the image. Sure, here that’s no big deal, but, on other boards, I like being able to embed the image.
GusNSpot’s links work fine-ish for me. They both go to the mobile site, and as my experience with other links by other posters here, they are teeny, tiny little low-res squares that have yet to be worth bothering to look at. No options to increase the size or resolution and the pics are hard to see on either monitor I use - a 17" (XP, FF 22.0) at work and at 37" (Win7, FF 22.0) at home. I can right click and “view image” to blow it up, but the resolution is so bad it’s useless. Terrible, I tells ya!
The takeaway from my post - don’t worry, the pics that do load aren’t worth it anyway.
