ok im curious to know if anyone use see's pics on the site blank out with "Upgrade to Pro Today...Bandwidth exceed...photobucket"

i guess it is every picture hosted on photobucket, im not for sure...

but not all the pictures are showing this

The RDT photobucket account went over it's 25GB monthly limit.

25GB.

Can you belive it?

Anyways, I forgot to pay for the pro this year, so when I get paid on Tuesday, I'll pay the $35 and they'll all be back.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Attention RDTiburon

You have exceeded the 25 GB monthly bandwidth limit on your free
Photobucket account. As such, your image and video links have been
temporarily disabled. Your images and videos have not been deleted but
will be reactivated on the 04th of the month, when your bandwidth
usage resets to zero.

If you'd like to re-activate your links right away, you can upgrade to a
Photobucket Pro account for FREE by clicking on this offer.

http://www.trialpay.com/stores/photob/pro?tid=6rGU1k1
*Free Trial Pay offers may not be available in all areas.

With a Photobucket Pro account you get unmetered
bandwidth, 10 GB of storage, removal of advertisements in the account, and
premium support. Pro accounts are $39.95 for a full year -- just a drop
in the bucket, but by accepting this offer you get it for FREE.

Click here
http://www.trialpay.com/stores/photob/pro?tid=6rGU1k1 to upgrade now and keep your
images and video clips active!

Thanks!
Photobucket</div>

wow

is it really worth upgrading if we havent needed it before?

i mean we would probably exceed it again sometime in the future, but if this is the first time its happened is it even worth upgrading for right now?

theres only like 5 days left in the month after tuesday until it gets reset again, right? I just think it would save you some money by not having to upgrade from free IMO

Actually, we have. More and more pictures are being put in there for COTY and COTM, DIY's.

Anyways, we had paid for our first year, but I forgot to do it when it came due back in November or whatever it was.

cool, problem solved!

No, it's not solved.

LOL

BTW folks, i figured why we went over 25GB of bandwith this month.

Calendar photos...

Every time someone opened one of the calendar or COTM/COTY threads, they loaded all of those pics. We need to start using the thumbnails on there.

I get paid tomorrow, so I'll upgrade the account then, someone remind me TOMORROW.

Additionally, maybe we should start using low quality thumbnails for the pics we keep on the portal page. Everytime the portal page is loading, it loads the COTY pic, COTM pic, and we have the most recent COTM winner pics going down the center.

Maybe we should stop the portal page announcement of COTM, and just keep it the one COTY and one COTM pic?

Using the thumbnail option on Photobucket should work for all of those, and greatly drop our bandwith.

it's easy, you select all the images, scroll to the bottom, and hit "Generate IMG Tags" or whatever it says. copy and paste.

Okay, we are good and premium through 27 January next year. Your donations at work!