bye-bye, photobucket

[mandie_rw]

I was GOING to do a post on my finished overskirt for the dinner dress, but it appears my ten years' loyalty to Photobucket is officially done, so I'm setting up a flickr account and sending them a nastygram tonight instead. They're getting rid of their 3rd-party hosting feature on all accounts that don't pay $40/MONTH. I do pay to host my photos (not a lot, but 10 years of costuming makes for a lot of pictures, so I don't mind having a paid account) so the 3rd-party hosting will go through the end of the year for me. Buuuuut I'm certainly not going to pay FORTY DOLLARS A MONTH so I can link pictures on fricking DW, so I'm essentially going to lose 10 years of pictures in this journal. (ETA: Not to mention everything on Blogger. Arrgh.)

Unless I want to go through over a thousand journal entries and relink them to flickr, once I get everything uploaded there. I don't.

So...slightly pissed at the moment!

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[padawansguide]

This is the article I read. https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/photobucket-just-killed-a-chunk-of-internet-history

[mandie_rw]

Yeah. Depending on your account level, the embedded pics may stay up through next year, but...wow. Way to kill a good chunk of the old blogs of the internet, Photobucket.

Here's their sneaky little post on it. http://blog.photobucket.com/please-review-latest-changes-photobucket/

[padawansguide]

They are the worst.