For those of you that, like me, have used it for years, now is a good time to save your images and locate a new site for hosting.
I recommend Imageevent. Not free but reasonable.
Photobucket went from free to pay at some point. They still nominally allow free hosting but it’s limited to a tiny 25MB and images are watermarked. They also hound you aggressively about upgrading to the paid hosting. Not that I blame them — you gotta make money.
I’ve already switched to hostpic.org. It’s free, doesn’t require any sign-up, you can upload a picture stored locally or from URL, they provide links in both HTML and BB code, and you can access them using the TOR browser without having to deal with reCAPTCHA harassment.
All they lack is a built-in resizing function.
Are you an Amazon prime customer? If so use Amazon. And yes I know, Google sucks, but you can host your pictures there for free also.
Yup, I am sad.
I understand the reason, nothing is free, but Photobucket is a HORRIBLE solution. They hold your images for ransom and watermark them if you don’t pay. And as of a couple months ago they did not yet have an option that would let you download and save all of YOUR OWN photos. I put some pics on Photobucket that were on a hard drive that has since failed so those are my only copies, yet they won’t make it easy to retrieve them.
Thanks ken in texas. ALL my ping list graphics are hosted on TinyPic, so, expect a lot of blank spots on the archival posts.
This had me worried. It was actually Tineye I was concerned about . A photo search engine, I could find out where some of my work has ended up
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My bud who specializes in affiliate marketing says once Ebay rejected tp for their links, he already knew they were going under.
Yep - I have used tinypic for year - I had noticed their ads had grown far more intrusive - but they now say there isn’t enough money in ads - so they are pushing folks to pay up for the $7.99 per month photobucket account. A person can get cheap web hosting and just use it cheaper than that a month.
