Wow, I forgot about ImageShack. I used to use them before PhotoBucket, too. But like a few of us are worried about, that puts Flickr (and any free image hosting site) at future risk as well. I'll be double-checking that all of my Flickr images are backed up on a HDD soon, for sure.
I'm looking around for reasoning behind the PB change, and someone commented on an article, saying
I can't find anything about third party hosting at Flickr so far, but I'm looking (with them being tied to Yahoo, I'm having trouble finding TOS specifically for the part of Flickr revolving around the free hosting). These image hosting sites can't be cheap to run, so it is understandable that they have to make money somehow. I'm not a techy person, but I would think people using these hosting sites to post millions of photos on other websites can only be doing damage to their bandwidth.
From Imgur's TOS:
http://imgur.com/tos
That's the best way to phrase things. What dicks!
Putting something together specifically for this forum is the only way to future-proof this issue.
I'm looking around for reasoning behind the PB change, and someone commented on an article, saying
They did send an email on the same day but it went to junk. "You account has been restricted for excessive usage and 3rd(sic) party hosting."
Well, I can tell you for sure I am not an excessive user.
Well, I can tell you for sure I am not an excessive user.
From Imgur's TOS:
http://imgur.com/tos
Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.
Putting something together specifically for this forum is the only way to future-proof this issue.
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