They've really screwed the forums. I was searching the BMW forums for info on how to change my sub frame bushes and most of the photos have gone. I'm sure it's the same here.
I guess at the end of the day the free service funded by adverts wasn't working. They had so many adverts on Photobucket the the site was almost unusable!
As this was always going to happen, we made sure from the outset that our official guides have their images served from our own images server
Now I am going to ask this TB with my usual ignorance about PC operating systems and them talking to each other, but here goes:
I am about to use Moonpig yet again and use my images online and place them on the card of my choice. I browse my photos, and post onto the Moonpig product. Is there a way that we could use our own photo libraries and post them direct on OOF?
Without stealing TB's thunder, and not wishing to "intrude" ... simple reason Lizzie is "cost" both financially and physically. To "store" photo libraries in any decent resolution requires large amounts of disk space, and equally large amount of "back up" disk space.
All these "free" image hosting sites pay for the storage requirements by adverts, we now use adblockers or simply ignore adverts, so their income has dried up and they are now charging to cover the hardware costs ... on OOF we pay for nothing, so an additional cost of large storage volumes and back up volumes would have to come from somewhere (and we haven't even mentioned the cost of systems/electricity or the large amount of time TB must spend nurturing the system) etc etc.
With some 14866 registered accounts to give even 1 GB of storage to everyone would need some very large, and expensive disks. I know many accounts are "dormant" but my guess is the software would not differentiate between active and dormant and would need to provide the same for all, I'm probably wrong but it gives an idea of the scale, hopefully.
Just my POV, TB will no doubt prove me wrong ...