Welp. So much for Photobucket.

[cairistiona]

Photobucket no longer allows 3rd party hosting without having a paid account at the $400 a year level. :/

Um. No. I don't have that kind of cash to lay out for fandom stuff that doesn't involve getting a hug from Sebastian Stan, and I don't really have money for that, either.

So, sadly, all the Aragorn-a-day posts made from photobucket are now just ugly placeholders advertising Photobucket, as are a few miscellaneous other photo posts and my DW journal header (which I was going to change anyway).

I haven't lost the photos... they're still stored on PB plus I have them backed up on a thumb drive. I guess I'll slowly go through my Aragorn-a-days and... delete? I hate losing all the comments, though none of them make sense without the corresponding photo. Thoughts?

Just another reminder that Things Change on the Internet, and often not for the better. :(

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If I do ever bother to go back and adjust and/or delete, it won't be any time soon. I'm downloading all my PB albums as a precaution but leaving them up on the very off chance PB has a change of heart and grandfathers in 99% of its users and restores linkage. But honestly, I have a feeling the whole site will go belly up and disappear, probably sooner rather than later. I already have backups of the photos, or at least most of them, but downloading the albums at least keeps them in the same grouping.

Now to decide on a new 3rd party hosting site. I'm leaning toward imgur, but I might look into flickr as well. I wish DW had photo storage. Then I'd just upload things there and be done with it.