Went back and scrolled around live journal then to my photo journal; looks like photobucket has given in a little, my pictures are back up with a prominent "photobucket" watermark on each: https://beoj.livejournal.com/?skip=20
I only deleted my Photobucket, so my entries are all intact, only photos are missing. I too would hate to lose those! In a few cases, I've replaced the pictures, but mostly I can't even remember what they were.
It's really not hard to host journal pictures here-- not that much space, but at least if it goes, they'll all go at once.
I'm hoping photobucket is feeling the pain and that is why they have sort of, returned the pictures. Now Flickr is going through something similar, what has happened there is that they have limited you to 1,000 pictures but you can still share them. 1,000 pictures is a lot and you could always set up a 2nd account but the free stuff is going away. I've been reading The Daily Beast for years and now they are pushing me to subscribe for certain stories.
Yeah, the economic underpinnings of the internet may be changing, although it still seems pretty ad-driven. What Photobucket did was unconscionable, though-- they violated a trust and tried to hold people hostage. They broke half the web! Entire sites, like the little gardening board I was on, had the majority of their images removed-- not to mention our journals. Yes, it's "free," but we are free targets for ads and for data collection, and are providing 100% OF THE CONTENT, so the directionality of "free" goes two ways, to say the least.
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It's really not hard to host journal pictures here-- not that much space, but at least if it goes, they'll all go at once.
What Photobucket did, was just inexcusable.
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