# What's up with Photobucket?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 27, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480 "2006-04-27T17:46:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480/1 "2006-04-27T17:46:03Z")
Back in the day, Photobucket users were only allowed images of sizes up to 250k. Any more, and the’d be resized. After a while, the limit was increased to 512k. Now the site says free users can upload images up to 1024k. But here’s the thing: it’s never worked for me. Every time I tried uploading anything over 250k, it’s been resized. Why?
---
### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480/2 "2006-04-27T19:06:09Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#):
>
> Back in the day, Photobucket users were only allowed images of sizes up to 250k. Any more, and the’d be resized. After a while, the limit was increased to 512k. Now the site says free users can upload images up to 1024k. But here’s the thing: it’s never worked for me. Every time I tried uploading anything over 250k, it’s been resized. Why?
I’m not sure of an answer to your issue, but you might want to ask that question in their forum (or look to see if there is an existing answer in the FAQ)
[http://forums.photobucket.com/](http://forums.photobucket.com/)
---
### Author:  [@Iris\_Rings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iris_Rings)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480/3 "2006-04-27T19:13:25Z")
Photobucket is now owned by somebody commercial (eBay?) and for some reason that disqualifies those pictures from appearing on [CraigList.com](http://CraigList.com)
Because of that, I’ve switched all my shared photos to [http://www.tinypic.com](http://www.tinypic.com) (“tiny” refers to the short url created)
---
### Author:  [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480/4 "2006-04-27T22:39:03Z")
WAG: Perhaps the problem isn’t file size, but image size, i.e. the dimensions. They may also have a maximum width and maximum height.
---
### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480/5 "2006-04-27T23:07:32Z")
> [@Iris Rings](#):
>
> Photobucket is now owned by somebody commercial (eBay?) and for some reason that disqualifies those pictures from appearing on [CraigList.com](http://CraigList.com)
> Because of that, I’ve switched all my shared photos to [http://www.tinypic.com](http://www.tinypic.com) (“tiny” refers to the short url created)
Wait, hey, a couple of questions, please?
- I just clicked on that website and it doesn’t seem to be asking for a password or anything. Is that your site or does it not use passwords?
- Can you only upload one pic at a time?
- And the bottom says owned by Photobucket or something. So what’s the difference?
---
### Author:  [@Iris\_Rings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iris_Rings)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480/6 "2006-04-27T23:34:40Z")
- no, there’s no passwords. you don’t have control of your pictures, so don’t post anything you might want to delete later.
- I was sure they had a multiple load, but I can’t see it now. Maybe I’m confusing sites.
- The tie to Photobucket stumped me too, and I asked Craiglist about it but got no answer.
- I just noticed they might not work for you at all because "Images hosted larger than 250k are resized "
I’ve also used [http://imageshack.us/](http://imageshack.us/) which says its limit is “image types allowed: jpg jpeg png gif bmp tif tiff swf - maximum image size: 1024 kilobytes”
And they have a “slideshow” button, whatever that means.
---
### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-photobucket/354480/7 "2006-04-27T23:44:36Z")
> [@Iris Rings](#):
>
> - no, there’s no passwords. you don’t have control of your pictures, so don’t post anything you might want to delete later.
Well, this alone turns me way, way off. I must have control! I must be able to do whatever I want to my pics! 😉
Seriously, I post things all the time for a short period of time. “Here’s the pics I took last weekend of my garden, what do you think? Here’s the entry for the SDMB Photo Contest”…and I don’t like leaving them up there to take room up.