Photobucket issues
It was brought to my attention that some of the photos shown in the Dennis restoration have disappeared. We get a message saying please update your account to enable third party hosting as can be seen here:
http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?429-WW1-Dennis-truck-find/page124
It is required that an annual payment of $399 is made to pay for this. I have done some more research and found this:
"Photobucket is cracking down on people embedding on third-party websites images it host
Looks like the bean counters at PhotoBucket have done the math - belatedly - and worked out they are losing far more than they are going to gouge on the new rates. So I got an e-mail from them yesterday with a "special offer" - their Premium service at $99 a year that allows for:
Store up to 300,000 Photos
Unlimited 3rd Party Hosting (Non-commercial)*
Unlimited Forum Embedding
Unlimited Sharing
Link is at http://photobucket.com/p500/?hotlinkfix=1516928810657 - app