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Photobucket have just dropped a bombshell of �399 a year too host images so all my pics are gone from the forum. My apologies.

*******s

Only a matter of time before other hosting sites follow suit.

Disappointing, but my attitude is, walk away and not look back.

Hi Jon, just double check it's not a scam....thats an insane price that no one will sign up to. , unless they just want to get rid of personal accounts and do commercial ones...? Steve

99% of the photos I host are on Photo Bucket since 2007, I just checked my account & the pricing is still the same as last year US$99.00.

It seems the issue is "image linking and3rd party image hosting".

There is still a free account for up to 2GB of storing, an add free one of $2.49/month but with no linking or 3rd party image storing.
The Plus Accounts run for $59.99/year for 52GB storage - no linking and no 3rd party storage;
$99.99/y for 102GB - unlimited linking but no 3rd party storage;
$399.99/y for 500GB - unlimited linking and 3rd party storage.

So Kev, with your $99.99/y account you should be fine with linking your photos on websites like forums.

With my Free account my photos will not show on on forums.

I joined Imgur which is free and it seems I can link my photos on forums from there. And it's fast with no irritating pop-up adverts.