Photobucket is money hungry!

Most if not all my pictures are saved to the PC before posting so they can do as they please. Granted my account is only %19 full anyways. Greedy sob's.

Everything "Free" cost you in one way or another!

Thurmond

"strikefast"
You tube does not charge to post a video there.......Yet

I upload videos there then link them to my website for my target business.

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That's truth but in my opinion we should use all new media, all social media as a toll for promoting ourselves and our knowledge but always have a backup plan and diversified ways of doing stuff - why? Because either it is YT, Fb, photobucket or any other - we are only guests in someone else garden. Social media services comes and goes, hosting websites changes rules and you always should be prepared for it. 
So ... my advice is:
- always have a backup of your texts, videos and photos on your computer, hdds/ssd/flash drives
- if you can store your stuff in several places f.eg. photos on photobucket (not any more) and also on flickr and google drive (both free both easty to use) - someone will ask why? Because they can't close all at once, and they can't change rules at once
- youse yt, fb, g+, whatever to publish your stuff, promote your stuff but always have a place where people can find you even if big brother will shut down every social media in the world. This place should be your own website/blog, on your own server and on your own domain (today website hosting services and domains are dirt cheap - f.eg. for a blog on your own domain it cost something like 3-4 .177 JSB Exact packs as year). Why you shoud do this? Because if not ... f. eg. if you have all your stuff in one place, if your viewers know you from only that one place - if that place will close - you loose everything and your viewers can't find you. 
Example 1: Several years ago everyone had to have MySpace account ... people spend there hours ... - it closed now and people had to go
Example 2: People stardet groups and fanpages on Fb - they made a living from sharing knowledge there and made some money. One day Fb said: ify want to make money here - pay us first. And just like that you had to pay because if not - even your followers/likers couldn't see what you are sharing
Example 3: Fb something like a year ago changed rules and said: everything what even resambles a weapon (ASG, airguns, black poder, firearms etc) is a weapon and you are not allowed to sell any of them on our groups (you can sell them on your fanpages but there you have to pay us to give youaccess to your own followers :/ ) - that way in one day some of biggest local and worldwide fb groups were closed/blocked/removed because they contained some kind of exchange/selling of airguns or ASG between userso of those groups
Example 4: And it shoke also our shooters comminity. Not a long ago Google/youtube changed rules and cutted out almost 100% earnings from videos containing anything gun related - that way lots of our airgun lovers that shares its knowledge on YT - just like that were deprived of any earnings. And as we know makikng movies in good quality cost money and time, having to buy new airguns for testing and reviewing also cost money. 

So ... what I'm trying to say in that long polglish (I'm from Poland so polish-english ) screed - always diversifie and remember: there is nothing free in that world. 

A business can do what they like. Well they used to in America. So yes I'm switching from a paid account also. The worst part is all the lost previous pictures most of us search for in the archives.

A post with meaning strikefast, and a very good summary SFX!
Getting into these free photo storages have a catch to it. Not there and then, but those small steps leading to a point when you have to show the cash money.
sadly you don't get a warning in advance, but history tells that this is the way it is, a sort of catch and release situation, and totally in the hands of the fishermen. 

so: posting images is solved, AGN took care of that. But videos? If it's no way around paying, wouldn't it be all right if AGN had the possibility to do that on behalf of the members? I mean posting videos like pictures today? And if so, would it be a one time cost, or paying along?
Myself I wouldn't hesitate a minute if there was a cost to the membership, which gave me free access to the videos put out here. 
AGN would be master of the house, based on a none profit filosofy of course. 

The image hosting here is great and for now, YouTube is still free because it is ad supported so we can always use that for video purposes.

Is imgur the same? I like them so far.

I realize AGN has its own image-hosting now, but another great site is flickr.com. Free 1TB with no pop ups or re-directs like Photobucket.

I also dropped photo bucket. 

When I have a down day I'll delete my photos and account, they'll know why. 

I just got done deleting my account. I never had my photos just on photobucket so no issues with losing pics. The site has become so bad to navigate with all the pop up ads that hit you every couple seconds. The only part about it that bothers me are all my photos in multiple forums of my hunting/pesting pics I posted using photo bucket along with some pics of mods I did to help other members out are now all gone from those sites. Oh well I am sure I could repost them if I wanted to go back thru all those posts lol.

Since Photobucket deceided to kick me off I have tried imgur, Flickr and google photos and can't seem to make any of them work. I am using an iPad and with Photobucket all I had to do was copy and paste the link. With the three I have tried when I copy and past the link all I get is a little blank square. When you tap on it it says "loading" but nothing ever happens. I found some instructions on using a windows computer and right clicking the mouse and resizing but won't work on an iPad. Anyone got any ideas on something that will work with the iPad. Sure glad Airgun Nation will let you upload a direct photo. Maybe some of the other forums can follow their lead now that Photobucket has gotten money hungry. $400 a year just to be able to post to a 3rd party sight is out of reason.

I tried Snapagogo and I get the same small blank box, no photo. There has got to be something different from Photobucket, I never had any problems with it from my iPad. Anyone have any ideas what I need to do to make them work.

Profile, my account - delete my account - exit photobucket. 
No more flashing popups irritating the eyeballs out of my head.