matty40s

All frozen again this morning!!

Going from free for 10 years to an immediate £399 a year if you wanted to keep your photos and they were shared on blogs was a ridiculous move. They lost 98% of their users. At its peak, Photobucket employed 120 people and accounted for 2% of American internet traffic. In 2019, the company employed 10 and ranked approx. 1,500th I lost many pictures. If they had said £5 a month or £50 a year I would have probably gone for it...but to extort and threaten to delete unless you paid a massive fee was just not on. They are now subject to a class action as they are going to use all the photos stored and sell them to AI media companies without permission.

Bit like Photobucket which stole all the pictures in 2015 unless you paid them a massive ransom fee. How to kill your business.

All gone now.

On balance...

Knew I had one....

Been a few reported recently...

A couple of years ago I dropped into Middling Swindlers to pick up a new ash tray for my Morso Squirrel. Picked it up and sliced my finger open on a sharp weld spatter. On user inspection, the thing was NOT Morso,had obviously been slung together in 30 seconds and passed off as Morso....someone locally had obviously said " I can do those cheaper". I did complain. Normal service and brand product was resumed when I checked a few weeks later.

The CRT advert was almost abstract in its attempt to give you a reason to make a will for them. You had to try and work out what the advert was saying. It didnt make sense. That is the ultimate fail for an advert. If I was CRT, I would be claiming money back from the advertising agency....although thier contracts will almost certainly prohibit this.

The GU has been frozen for over 2 weeks now here. We did manage 2" of snow yesterday 4 hours before the Metoffice said our rain would turn to snow. ...as soon as we were supposed to have snow, it turned to a mix of sleet and rain, mostly gone this morning. One funny thing this week was the big green fatty that has inhabited the towpath opposite the local brokerage for 7 weeks who has daily ran his very noisy genny on his front deck....complained. The brokerage managed to lift several boats for surveys before Christmas...just managing to lift the last one as the ice was forming. So this week, needing to lift it back in, they ran all the boat engines on the wharf including staff boat engines , to break the ice up ready for the boat to go back in. Noisy genny overstayer complained about the noise of ice breaking and engines running. 🙂

Nope, ive probably whizzed through 2 or 3,. JUst go to their header page on YouTube, it's all there in its glory.

Aye, but do those people expect an income from their crisis. And how many crisis(es) can you have before you are tagged as either completely inept, or just follower-laundering(c)