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photobucket charging $399.99 for 3rd party hosting

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/320576 ... emand.html

if you have any old posts on CI containing any images you better change them because some corporate nutcase got greedy again
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How did Imgur not drive them out of business?
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Photobucket falls even further into irrelevance. I never liked Photobucket for image hosting, I'm more surprised people use it anymore at all.
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imgur is currently starting to lose it as well (try uploading a pic on mobile or directly linking someone to one) so all i can say is the current state of image hosting is crap
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please tell me it'll help cut down on reaction images and lame memes

i get second hand dork

not talking about anyone here
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I don't even know who keeps their memes and reaction images on photobucket
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Post by Jeffery Mewtamer »

Dedicated hosting and forum attachments have always been superior in my opinion.

Also, while this might actually have effects beyond the Mega Social Sites, this still has zero impact on me.
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I think this is the genuine death of photobucket. I don't even upload to the site anymore because the site bogs down my computer every time I use it. The pricing is likely someone just trying to squeeze the last bit of juice they can collect from the userbase.
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Post by CasualCollision »

I've already backed up my images. Good riddance I say. Using that site to upload images was always so tedious.
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