Sorry, I have no idea what you are referring to. I make knives and stuff and am entirely ignorant of most internet company politics. I had been sharing images via my own personal Facebook account, but noticed other people used photobucket, so I created a free account two days ago and started using them. What I do know is that it is miserably filled with ads of every type, shape and size and incredibly, obnoxiously slow. I am more than willing to use a different photo sharing company if one is recommended to me.
PsYCHoT|K, if it's working for you then go for it. I've learned not to speak for 300Six but I think his question was more out of interest as photobucket shut down access on free accounts/photohosting last year, leaving longtime posters/members here with their pictures stripped from forums - here and elsewhere. They disabled the linking and locked those members from their own material. They were asking several hundred dollars to get back in and use them as a picture hosting service.
Perused your other photos - nice work! We just weren't aware that they were offering the service again at no membership fee as all previous users had there pictures disabled and not able to get in to download them for themselves let alone share on the forums. If you are a knifemaker and share a lot of your work, it would suck to lose what you have posted on different forums.
I like
Flickr and
Imgur but some guys are using
postimage,
Flickr has a lot of options for sorting and organization that makes it easier to find and group your photos, which is helpful. It has some annoying linkage included in the pictures that you have to make a concerted effort to remove if you don't want the name of the file and authoring displayed.
Imgur doesn't seem to provide "native" links that work here to display pictures and I have not found a way to use the mobile app to insert the pictures here - only links. So if you are mostly using mobile, you get links to the pictures (might just me or ios - don't know).
When clicking on other guys' photos hosted on postimage I get hot asian and singles ad banners in my area - maybe that is just me though and maybe not a bad thing... *clearing search history right now
It is weird when my 3 year old is having breakfast and has to ask, "Who dat lady?" when I am looking at someone's half-hatchet (that's my story and I'm sticking with it lol)
Apologies for making your axe thread about picture hosting but photobucket's change last year stripped our forums of a lot of longstanding pictures from some deep research, rare tools, competent foresters, handmade handles, etc. You actually create blades, share, and are proud of your work, and I (and probably others) don't want you to have the same experience.
The Craftsman for sure
