That is the issue. I started photobucket for the one reason of posting pics here. If that doesn't work anymore, I need to find a new site.
Photobucket works fine. Any site is going to start charging for too much storage at some point so changing one way about how we put pics on a hosting site will fix everything but it has to be right from the beginning.
Resize the pictures to a size that will load quick on any webpage. If not; a person opening that page may need to wait while that one picture on the entire page downloads.
There's simply no reason to put a picture on Photobucket that's over 100kb; most should be less than half that. People don't realize just how big a 10MB picture really is. It would take 100 - 100kb pictures to equal one 10MB picture and there isn't enough clarity in the picture on a forum like this to tell the difference between the two. It's just wasteful. If a person is careful; they can put 40,000 pictures on Photobucket before they reach the 2GB threshold of them charging money at the time of this writing.
Regardless of what hosting site one uses; they need to use the simple practice of resizing the pictures before putting them up on the hosting site for use on this or any forum or to send by email.
For those of us who have been doing this for at least a couple decades; hard drive space and online storage space was precious and not to be taken for granted. Those good online practices are still needed today unless someone doesn't mind paying $400 a year to a company to host those pictures.