I've been trying to download ANY album to my computer for the last twenty minutes and it almost works but no happy ending.

I have just over 500 pictures on Photobucket, but I think that every one is also stored on my computer, somewhere. I also have a Flickr account. Looks like I'm going to have to do some work and make sure that the Photobucket pics that I have posted here are also on Flickr and change the Photobucket links to Flickr links.
Then, delete all my pics on Photobucket and send them a little love note, if that's possible.

Exactly why I have never stored any content on anything that seems like "the cloud", to me.

That, and the fact that on the cloud, it is out of your hands, and in the hands of people who keep proving they have no clue about security of YOUR content.

I do have a few pics on PB, but have not used it for years. All of my current photos are on an external hard drive. No worries, just e mail or copy what I want.

I think they know the hows and whys, they just don't care.

We're putting up pics of things that are common place- important to us perhaps, but hardly anyone else. I have never placed photos online without having a backup. To the contrary. I may share a photo online but I have it on my computer and a portable hdd as a matter of habit. That is one of the reasons that I don't bother to reply to all the "buy a backup hdd" comments... That was never the point, not for anyone who I know.

Online photo hosting was never used as storage by my family... Just for 3rd party linking. There is some benefit of finding a photo when away from home- I used that option at SHOT Show in January. I could have just as easily called or texted my wife to MMS it to me... I did that for a photo of an induction heater later in the show.

So to me this is about our ability to have a hotlinked photo without having to pay big $. For WaGuns to have our own photo hosting the income would have to go up quite a bit, as I understand it. Any of the 3rd party photo hosting sites that allow hotlinking have the same POSSIBLE vulnerabilities that were exposed by the dirty trick that Photobucket pulled.
Sure, Photobucket is operating as a business, and they made a business decision. Unfortunately, there are bunches and bunches of articles, measurements, information that are gone forever. Articles that relied on hotlinked photos that contained measurements and layouts etc. Most people won't go back and re-do everything.
It was a dirty trick. I am not talking about cute cat photos.

I LOL at the people who think this is about the difficulty of using Imgur or Flickr. Really? Ops' smug post in the "What has made your day" thread is typical of that silliness.

My library is gone today...............

#fukfotobuket

Imgur works, but I still don't like the feeling that articles or stories get gutted at the whim of a 3rd party.
For some reason I posted the pics of that young buck stealing my Ford tractor from Imgur last year.

Checking to see if posting a link from PB works...

Yes exactly. It was never about storing pictures, and photo storage is not why Photobucket ruined the internet. It is annoying when sanctimonious people (i.e. Prius drivers ) here and on other forums start telling everyone how they should have stored pictures elsewhere.

This has got to be one of the most hilarious threads I have seen on here.

just trying out the photo hosting stuff.
.https://www.flickr.com/gp/157241476@N05/2ZjF86
IMG_2061 by A D, on Flickr

Well now I'm kinda screwed. Wave says they don't do web hosting anymore. I mean I still have all my photos locally, and hey the still show up (see above). BUT I can't access anything! Uggg.....what the hell??

That’s some bullshit ... they shouldn’t just kill it without some warning. That would be a real Photobucket type of move.

On the horn with them now! The techs want to help but seem baffled. Like I am old school guy for using Firefox and using web hosting and FTP and oh my...