Fucking Photobucket

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Motherfucker, do you have any idea how much fucking WORK it would be to move all of my literally thousands of icons to another site and then go back and update all the links on over 100 posts - to say nothing of the icons I posted to challenge comms, my picspams, the gifs I've used all over the internet, mood themes, my custom LJ layout, etc.?

I am not paying fucking $400/year just to save it, though, so brb, mourning all the fucking hours spent on graphics no one will ever see again.

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[silverusagi]

I don't have a Photobucket, but I am angry on fandom's behalf. And $400 a year also seems really steep for an image hosting service?

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$400 seems ABSURD, especially to go from free right to that without any in-between phase or offering cheaper options. Basically, they are holding people hostage and expecting that we will pay up just to avoid the hassle of having to reupload everything somewhere else and fix god knows how many broken links.

Tumblr doesn't require third-party image-hosting, does it? I imagine if it did, the entire internet would be in revolt, but it seems like journal culture is fading out anyway, so who even knows how many people use icons anymore.

[silverusagi]

Tumblr doesn't require third-party image-hosting, does it?

No, anything you upload to tumblr is directly hosted by tumblr. But it's not like, accessible, or anything. You put a picture in a tumblr post, it's there, boom. But you don't have albums or organization or anything, or like any big listing off all your uploaded pictures. It's just directly in the post.

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Yeah, I mean, it's not a good replacement or anything, just that if photobucket had broken all of tumblr, there'd be chaos.