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As a heads up:

"I just got this message when I went on tinypic from my location in Germany.

Tinypic is no longer accepting uploads from international locations, and links are turned off. If you have content on Tinypic, you can still view the URLs and the content, but only on Tinypic. To upload, share, or link content, please go to Photobucket.com to register an account. You will need to upload your content again to your Photobucket account, but you will be able to share and link your images and videos. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope that you enjoy Photobucket, our premier image and video site

Upon clicking for more information:

Tinypic International is changing. Beginning September 23rd, you will no longer be able to upload content to Tinypic and your links will be turned off. Please begin using Photobucket to upload, share and link your images and videos."

This is probably the reason so many tinypic secrets are messing up.

Suggestions for other image hosting sites: http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/558194.html?thread=352305266#t352305266

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Late to the party.....I replied somewhere explaining that my friend's boyfriend works at Photobucket. Posting anon because LORD FORBID PB find out who I am and fire my friend's boyfriend...and because I don't own an LJ but I love F!S.

PB's been a stupid bitch because they lost A LOT of money in the previous two/three years. Some advertisers stopped working with PB because they searched around and found "offensive" content that the PB mods missed. It happened with a couple small advertisers, which wasn't huge, but then a major advertiser found "tub girl" (never saw the photo but my friend and her boyfriend explained it to me and yeah.....GROSS) and from there they started making major cuts.

I can only guess the Tinypic thing was PB trying to make more cuts from their costs. I haven't talked to my friend and her boyfriend for a couple weeks so I'm not completely up to date on it, but if I hear anything I'll be....posting anonymously. Let's hope PB get it together and stop fucking with us. I like loading my secrets on TP.

[(Anonymous)]

Even later to the party, but Photobucket might do a bit better if they didn't fuck their users around. The facebook crap was the last straw for me. I lost all the comments I had on my images, with no way to get them back that I can see and I also get a lot less comments than I used to because people hate the commenting system and won't use it.

Tinypic being owned by Photobucket explains a lot and I don't trust them not to do this again in the future so I'm looking for a new image hosting service. Imgur looks OK, but I'm keeping my options open.