Dear PBase
After being a member since around 2003 I can no longer justify your exuberant annual fee compared to other FREE online photo providers.
Not only do you charge a fee where many are free, the website and navigation has NEVER been updated since joining. Why is that ?
Obviously the main reason you don’t provide a MASS download feature is to stop member migrating their photos to these better free providers.
So out of principle I manually downloaded ALL 30 albums and moved every photo to GOOGLE Photos, then deleted everything from pBase.
It was a useful service when new, but I’m afraid you are just holding many archive photo holders to ransom now.
It was nice knowing you
Goodbye!
I'm not sure that this is of such great import that it needs to be posted across 5 different sub-forums, some of which it's off topic for. (HTML and stylesheets, really?) That's less "Goodbye" and closer to "spam".
But that aside... "exuberant"? I do not think this word means what you think it means.
You probably mean "exorbitant", but I'm having a really hard time calling $23 per gigabyte per YEAR either “exorbitant” OR “exuberant”. An amount which incidentally has not changed (except to provide you with more space for the same cost) in over a decade. Are your food bills the same as they were a decade ago? Utilities costs?
As for other sites being “free"... once again I do not think that word means what you think it means. The Internet isn’t a Wonka factory. Someone has to pay for servers, someone has to pay for network bandwidth, someone has to pay for site development. With “free” sites you “pay” in other ways. Google rifles through your stuff to match ads to anything that you’ve ever written in Gmail. Other sites plaster ads all over their pages, which you can stop with an ad blocker... until such time as those sites disappear because they can’t cover their costs. So this “free” thing? You actually mean “Somebody should pay for the services that I use but it should be coming out of someone else’s pocket, not mine”.
There are legitimate grievances with PBase but as with most things in this post-truth world, it’s irritating to see them omitted in favour of hyperbolic and factually incorrect garbage with a vague hint of conspiracy theory thrown in.
To say that there has NEVER been an update since 2004 is arrant nonsense. The file uploader and drag and drop gallery manager is one, Geotagging was introduced even though it does not currently work properly, this forum was updated a few years ago. Are they enough? Do they keep PBase current with more modern technologies like tablets? No to both, but at least be honest about it instead of saying something that is factually wrong.
The same applies to what is “obviously the main reason” for them not providing a bulk downloader. “Obviously” the real reasons are that they aren’t developing much of ANYTHING and if they were, that would probably be at the bottom of anyone’s priority list. “Obviously” anyone with an ounce of sense still has copies of the photos that they uploaded and therefore just as “obviously” there should be no need to waste limited time developing a bulk downloader when there is a stack of things that they need to develop first. And haven’t. And probably won’t, which is a legitimate gripe.
But to suggest that the reason they haven’t is because of some grand conspiracy to hold people hostage? Get a sense of perspective.
Goodbye, With nobody in your favourites group and having made a total of 5 posts in 13 years, all of which are this, I’m sure you’ll be missed.