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As most of us probably already know, Photobucket has ceased to be a viable site for hosting photos, unless you have deep pockets and want to sign up for one of their pay-to-play plans. (And, even then, the Photobucket site may go down for extended periods with no warning and no explanation.) I've looked at several alternates, and until today I hadn't found anything worth even considering.

 

I stumbled across a site called Shutterfy. https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/The-Shutterfly-Guarantee-1

 

It looks promising ... I think. Unlimited storage, for free. But the page in that link doesn't tell us if the free accounts allow hotlinking to images for use on web forums such as the Comanche Club. I just wasted a quarter of an hour in a chat session with a customer support drone, who finally admitted that he/she doesn't know where the terms of service are to be found. He/she said he/she will get the information and send it to me. I'm not holding my breath.

 

Has anyone used Shutterfly? If so, how satisfied are you? Is it a viable alternative for us?

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I have looked at Imgur. Technically (IIRC), their terms of service prohibit using them as third-party host for images displayed on external sites. (Which, of course, is just what most of us want to use it for.) ... Yeah, it's in their terms of service:

 

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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.

 

So the terms of service prohibit doing what we want to do. That means if you use Imgur that way -- they have the option of cutting you off at any time and, if/when they do so, you have no recourse because they warned you not to do what you did.

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59 minutes ago, Eagle said:

I have looked at Imgur. Technically (IIRC), their terms of service prohibit using them as third-party host for images displayed on external sites. (Which, of course, is just what most of us want to use it for.) ... Yeah, it's in their terms of service:

 

 

So the terms of service prohibit doing what we want to do. That means if you use Imgur that way -- they have the option of cutting you off at any time and, if/when they do so, you have no recourse because they warned you not to do what you did.

Laughable, truly. 

 

The world has seen with photosucket has done to themselves, others will not repeat. 

 

 

That said-

 

I've owned/built three websites. 

$12 to register your domain. $15 per month to host your site. Host your own images and share to your heart's content. 

If you are serious. 

 

My images are backed up, I don't care what imgur does or does not do. 

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4 hours ago, Eagle said:

I have looked at Imgur. Technically (IIRC), their terms of service prohibit using them as third-party host for images displayed on external sites. (Which, of course, is just what most of us want to use it for.) ... Yeah, it's in their terms of service:

 

 

So the terms of service prohibit doing what we want to do. That means if you use Imgur that way -- they have the option of cutting you off at any time and, if/when they do so, you have no recourse because they warned you not to do what you did.

Yes, you're absolutely right. If they want to delete all of my pics, they could with the press of a button.

 

I have my own photo hosting that I use for things other than CC. I need to stop being lazy and move my linked pictures on CC over.

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