Yah, me thinks Photobucket wants to go out of business. No way or anybody that I know will pay $400 a year just to be able to link pictures from there.
Any other options Marty? I'm not up on all the photo hosting sites...
Not sure atm, their will be either a massive class action lawsuit filed against Photobucket for basically extortion or they will get away with it, if it stands as legal than I look for other sites to do the same. If nothing else they should have left it alone and let all existing photos still be linked to with a membership fee for any new photos to be linked to, that’d be perfectly legal then.
I’ve already had to fix several things on my website as the links were broke to the pictures. I have another forum I help moderate as well that I literally have hundreds of broken photo links in just my posts that no longer work, started to fix em, then quit, gonna wait to see what plays out.
I have all my photos on Photobucket as a backup, of course I also have them all stored on iCloud and Facebook (set to private albums) as well as a time capsule at home plus another external drive that I back up to every month or so, so basically I have em backed up four different ways from Sunday. I believe I have around 9000 photos. Ever tell you about the time I got to recreate 3 years worth of taxes when the hard drive crashed on one of my PC’s and the supposed on line back up didn’t work?
I still have boxes and boxes of slides the in laws gave me to try to get converted to digital.
Anyways, if your an Amazon Prime member they offer basically the same thing as Photobucket, I’m gonna start messing around with the for now.
Another option is to store em on Facebook, so far thats free and I haven’t hit a storage cap yet. If nothing else might be worth it for now to create a Facebook account and make zero friends and just use it for storage, I’m pretty sure thought they have something in place though to keep people from burning up their storage.