I have returned from The Great European Adventure! It was a good trip and I do plan to make a post about it at some point, but at the moment I'm too annoyed with Photobucket to do much more than vent.
Turns out that, about ten days ago, they decided not to allow 3rd party hosting any more despite it being free for years. And, as a result, almost all the links to images in my posts no longer work. Years worth of Prison Break recaps, shippy picspams, Oscar dress reports, holiday posts, photography posts, basically almost everything that involved a picture is now ruined.
I'm not paying $400 a year, cos that's fucking ridiculous, but to move all my photos and manually change all the links in all my posts will take forever. I love going back and re-reading my old recaps and, as has recently been proved, other people sometimes stumble across my blog and enjoy my shippy picspams, and I don't want to lose them either. So all I can hope is that Photobucket change their minds. I don't know how likely that is, but an awful lot of other people are pissed off with them about this too, so there's a chance. *fingers crossed*
Turns out that, about ten days ago, they decided not to allow 3rd party hosting any more despite it being free for years. And, as a result, almost all the links to images in my posts no longer work. Years worth of Prison Break recaps, shippy picspams, Oscar dress reports, holiday posts, photography posts, basically almost everything that involved a picture is now ruined.
I'm not paying $400 a year, cos that's fucking ridiculous, but to move all my photos and manually change all the links in all my posts will take forever. I love going back and re-reading my old recaps and, as has recently been proved, other people sometimes stumble across my blog and enjoy my shippy picspams, and I don't want to lose them either. So all I can hope is that Photobucket change their minds. I don't know how likely that is, but an awful lot of other people are pissed off with them about this too, so there's a chance. *fingers crossed*
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The silly thing is that if it was a reasonable price I think a lot of people would be willing to pay it. But $400 is insane.
Mine's been restricted since June 30th. I've that account at least 11 years, bastards.
I too still have all images showing from PB. I have an addfree 'legacy' account that no longer allows hotlinking but is still working. I am assuming it will still be working until its expiration date. In the main this is because my blog is pretty dormant (haven't been blogging much at all in over a year) so not generating traffic.
This is giving me time to download all that was stored in PB and decide what my next move is *sigh*
Hope this helps.
So you think Imgur is the way to go? I'm trying to work out where I want to move my pics to and I'm wary about choosing the wrong one and this happening again.
But not everyone has that luxury so...
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/photobucket-alternative-free-image-hosting-sites
http://www.topbestalternatives.com/photobucket/
And another site not mentioned on there that does offer private photo sharing embeds is
https://nickpic.host
But most people are going for Imgur.
I suppose it's a kind of Alanis Morrissette Ironic that we always thought the greatest threat to our journals was LiveJournal and it turned out to be Photobucket!
It is looking like Imgur is the way to go, although I'm not a fan of the layout of their site.
And that's true. I know I have a few pictures uploaded to LJ itself in some of my entries but I usually avoided doing that cos I thought Phobobucket would be more reliable. Ha!