Welp, I got the dreaded email from Photobucket and now my nieces and nephews no longer show in my signature.
I refuse to pay for Photobucket. What are people on here doing about photos now?
I assume any of my photos which NateBenMa put on the first few pages of this thread also have the annoying notice in place of my photos ("Please update your account to enable third party hosting.)
So I finally had a chance to see what is going on. As I mentioned, I have a paid subscription to Photobucket, which expires in February. According to what I read, if you are a member in "good standing", i.e. PAID up, then the links to the pictures in your account appear to continue to be valid.
The good news (actually, great news) on my part is that I am such a control freak that almost all of the photos on Page 1 are either mine, or if not, I have them uploaded in my Photobucket account, so they are still viewable. I think there are only 3 pictures in 20 posts on Page 1 FULL of pictures that no longer appear. That may not be the case in some of the links, however.
One of pictures no longer displaying is your GF cookie/brownie picture. Can you email that to me at my yahoo account:
beachclubdee
Also, if you email the pictures you want in your signature, I'll upload those and send you the links so you can continue to display them if you wish.
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Some of the options to allow you to continue posting photos without paying a service fee (I believe)
1- Direct upload to the DIS using the Upload a File button
con- sometimes you need to resize the photo prior to posting, the photo won't show in quotes from others and I think there is a 10 photo per post limit of this type.
Is that still true????
2- Other services like flikr, Shutterfly, smugmug, Snapfish are still offered for free, I believe.