Another one down the tube.

[Carl]

Now Photobucket joins the ranks of the sites which are charging for storage. You can still have a free account, but as with all the other sites, the amount of storage and bandwidth is severely limited. Seems like every time I get most of my photos stored on a site, they do this and I have to find another one.
Anyone know of another free site?

 

[lovetoscrap]

Any idea how much storage/space you get? I just added a ton of photos for my TR and am worried about getting cut off.

 

[Golf4food]

I'm perfectly happy paying Flickr $20 a year or whatever it is - not only storage, but editing tools, community groups to meet new people (a bunch of us from the area meet up once every month in a different location for a photowalk and share ideas, very cool). It costs money to store all of that data, I don't blame them for wanting to charge. If you ran out of space on your home computer you'd have to spend money to buy a new hard drive - they have to do the same thing, only for many millions of photos = bigger costs for them.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Can you post photos here on the DIS from Flickr? I didn't think you could?

 

[Master Mason]

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