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I also opened a POSTIMAGE account and uploaded some pix, but after reading the "terms" that said if I didn't upgrade to a paying account in 30 days it would change to a different account.

I will wait 30 days before spending a lot of time on it only to find it doesn't work

Finally got the PB site to download my photos to my computer, left the account open just to piss them off. Don't intend to ever go back.

I see absolutely nothing about having to pay

I was going to sign up for Flikr, but it kept getting me in a Yahoo sign-in loop and then it asked for a phone number, which wasn't going to happen. I am going to let things shake out a while before worrying about photo uploads. For now, I am just posting YouTube stuff.

Yes, Imgur is free. But you need to realize that anything you post to it belongs to THEM in perpetuity, even if you later delete it:

"With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content. To the extent that you delete any such file or content from the public portions of our site, the license you grant to Imgur pursuant to the preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content Imgur has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense. Also, of course, anything you post to a public portion of our site may be used by the public pursuant to the following paragraph even after you delete it."

What's more, they REALLY don't want you posting Imgur pics to ANY other site:

"Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it."

Same here.

How did you make your album private? If I'm logged in to postimage.org my account is wide open...

Use direct link

Direct link just posts the link, then you have to click the link to see pic, any other ideas?

Ok I got direct link between [img] and [/img], thanks.

Not if you put [img] in front of the link and [/img] at the end of the link

When is The campfire planning on blocking the posting of pictures from websites that use the http format instead of https? I have asked my picture hosting site (Picture Trail) if they plan on making the conversion to https and explained the situation, but as of yet I have not received a reply.

The only problem I see with Imgur is that any "Free" model is doomed to failure long term.

Data storage costs money. Bandwidth costs money.

So how does Imgur make money? At some point, they have to or they cease to be a going concern.

I don't fault PBucket for trying to make a buck...but I sure do fault them for how they did it. I terminated my account with them and haven't decided where I will yet. Do I think it makes a difference to them? No. No matter how I calculate it, PB makes more money without me (saves bandwidth, etc.). Even if just 10% of their base decides to renew, then they make that much more money.

As yet, I haven't received a bill from photobucket, yet it still works for posting pictures. Is the Campfire getting ready to ban photobucket hosted images or something?

This is quite obviously photoshopped. I mean really. Obama in work boots.

A bit from the PB folks.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/06/photobucket-complaints-over-charging/

You think photobucket does not get paid for all the ads on their site???

I haven't deleted my PB account yet and have a wait and see attitude. Even if I delete my account with them, no harm, no foul. I had great, free use out of PB for years and bear them no ill will. I think trying to charge the amount they are attempting to is stupid, but what do I know? I also don't like the way they did things, but that's up to them.

I've had a Flikr account for years also. I'd use it here when PB periodically [bleep]. Flikr was never as user-friendly as PB IMO. It became increasingly so to the point that I can't even seem to post pics from my account there anymore. I've asked about it on here before but nobody ever replies.

I appreciate Rick hosting pics but the problem I see is that you have to downsize the pics to a tiny size.

I'm currently using Imgur and it seems okay.

Does no one read anymore. Rick raised the size to 8meg

I registered on Imgur and used the "Direct Link" which uses a prefix of http instead of https, but from the post preview appears to work.

Here's the real test