Photobucket has changed their rules of usage. They are not allowing embedded photos to forums with the simple accounts all of us at GALS have.
The mods are really annoyed - Photobucket wants $39.99 A MONTH which has to be paid in advance in one sum of $399!!! Can you imagine?
Some of us have an account that should allow us to have our photos 'hot linked' as they call it, through December 2018. There are alternative services, but they all are charging, too. This will mean the end of our avatars, signatures and images of Gerry that we're so fond of sharing in our posts.
Image Shack will still allow sharing, but they are charging for that service, although not as much as Photobucket.
The images cannot be hosted by GALS as that would drive up the cost of hosting, which we already struggle to pay.
We're looking into alternatives.
To find out more about the issue:
http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/categories/200056995-Sharing-and-Linking
http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010128088-What-users-are-affected-by-the-changes-to-our-3rd-Party-Hosting-policies-
If you were a Plus Account subscriber in good standing as of June 1, 2017,
you will continue to have all the privileges you have enjoyed including 3rd
Party Hosting until December 31, 2018 as long as you maintain your
subscription.
http://blog.photobucket.com/please-review-latest-changes-photobucket/
http://photobucket.com/terms
https://twitter.com/photobucket
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