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N659HB

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I've been storing my sharable pics for years on Photobucket. Now they want $400/yr to provide 3rd party "hosting." Too steep for me. Any no-cost/low-cost alternatives?
 
shutterfly.com has held my thousands of photos, for free, for maybe a decade (well they bought out kodakshare I think).
All I have to do is occasionally see an ad.
 
I've used all mentioned above expect imgur. I also currently have zenfolio for my professional photography site.
They each have pros and cons. Google photo is decent but they limit file size for free version.
Flickr is/was a yahoo product and it's future may be in limbo.
 
I've used smugmug.com for years, it is not free but reasonably low cost. Around $50/yr if I remember correctly.
 
Not sure what you mean by "shareable pics", but I use tinypic for posting stuff here.
 
N659HB said:
I've been storing my sharable pics for years on Photobucket. Now they want $400/yr to provide 3rd party "hosting." Too steep for me. Any no-cost/low-cost alternatives?
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Wow, PB finally came out of the (skeleton) closet. Took them a while. They've been going downhill for a few years now, this step does not surprise me. Reminds me of the WebShots fiasco. :)

I second Flick. Worst case scenario, MS will roll it into OneDrive or something.
 
I had been using Photobucket message-board photos for the last several years. I have a free account and have thus been putting up with annoying full-page ads that slowed down the site to a crawl, and near-daily spamming emails from Photobucket.

Then a couple of weeks ago came an e-mail from Photobucket: "Some features on your account have been disabled. We noticed that you have been using Photobucket for 3rd party hosting. [...] Our Terms of Service does [sic] not allow 3rd party hosting with your current account level." It appears they have just changed the TOS to make the ad-filled "free" account essentially worthless.

Then they helpfully suggest, "To restore your 3rd party hosted images, please upgrade to a Plus 500 Plan."

That's $399 a year. Payable in advance.

Arrivaderci, Photobucket.
 
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dmspilot said:
If you meant Flickr, that's owned by Yahoo, which has just been acquired by Verizon.
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I must be getting old, I would swear that Yahoo was bought by MS. (which explains why it started going downhill so drastically, just like Skype and other competitors that MS bought out to destroy)
 
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