PHOTOBUCKET 3rd Party Hosting - Time to pay the piper

[Capstone]

So as some of you may have noticed, there are a bunch of photos on this forum going back years that were originally uploaded through and hosted with Photobucket.

Photobucket has decided that they no longer want their hosted pictures to show up anywhere without a slice of the pie from places like Facebook or Twitter, so they are forcing customers to pay monthly fees now to allow these 3rd party Apps to show the image. It's affecting a huge amount of hobby forums and is a fricken mess. If you've gotten emails from Photobucket then you should be aware of the issue already.

As a suggestion, I recommend folks take these pics off Photobucket and get a Personal Dropbox Account or use their Google Photos Account if you happen to have a Google Pixel.

There are probably other free photo sharing services through Apple or others, but these are the two I use.

One last thought... all of the older photos that are now blank within this forum along with countless others are now for pretty much everyone GONE.
Please take just a little time out to fix this for the sake of all those folks who appreciated your efforts in the first place and also for all the future forum members that will likely enjoy seeing your work as well and might inspire these folks for something even cooler.

Phil

[acourtjester]

Yes the greed is spreading many software companies are now using a subscription fee in place of the purchase price.
Another thing they have you save your work on their server and it goes into their library, IMHO .