Photobucket has Moved to Pay-to-Play

[Izento]

As anyone can see by going through past threads, a lot of the images aren't being displayed because Photobucket has decided to charge its users to "hotlink" from other forums/websites. No fault to them, I guess you gotta make money somehow, but for those who have build threads or informative threads, it would be a good service to reupload your images to alternative sites.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/

This one is about the only one I could find which allows hotlinking and keeps images forever. Imgur erases images if they haven't been viewed for a while, along with other sites. Flickr doesn't allow for hotlinking.

I suggest all the moderators to make an announcement in their own sub-forums.

[darylzero]

Imgur doesn't delete images anymore, since Feb. 2015

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Since when does flickr not allow hotlinking? Does this image not show up?

[darylzero]

yes


Also, may want to un-sticky the first topic "How to post pictures using photobucket"

[Mjkkb2]

I can see it FYI.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Ok, the image I hotlinked was from Flickr. Just making sure.