Just seen a couple of my posts which now have a 'Please update your account' message where my embedded pics use to be...Hmmm....so I look into it and...
Message from metafilter site...:
''Photobucket rolled out a new update to its TOS on June 26th with just a small, innocuous blog post as an announcement. Users have been finding out about it as their embedded images on other sites have turned into placeholders telling them to update their accounts, and as Photobucket has rolled out email notifications telling them that if they want to keep embedding images, they have to pay $399/year.''
http://www.metafilter.com/167973/Ple...-Party-Hosting
So I am now going to use 'Imgur'...The problem is for all those hundreds of pics that I already have posted on this and many other sites will have to be re-addressed to change the pics...Needless to say a massive amount of work...Thanks Photobucket...I never paid for Photobucket...so maybe its ok for them to do this...but I guess I would have at least liked to know that this may have been an eventuality from the beginning when I registered...
Either way...I apologise if you see some of my posts now with that message from Photobucket...I'll be working on it from now on...
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