Photobucket keeps hassling you because you didn't delete your photos or close your account. They now want your money for posting those photos.
(You can still get into your account and download them back to your computer.) Just hit the SPAM button on your email account and it will start deleting them.
As for a free website that I
use for hosting photos to post online, I went to
Blogger.com, created a free personal blog, went to setting, set it to PRIVATE. They have a text box, that looks just like on the DIS. I click on the IMAGE button, that looks the same as here. Upload a photo(s) from your computer to a blog post. No need for any text, unless you want notes to yourself. Remember the blog is private. You can create as many "blog posts" as you want as separate folders for all your photos, i.e. "
Disneyland 2018," "WDW 2020." Click the PUBLISH or UPDATE button for the blog post to save changes. In the top left corner, it says: View Blog. Click on it. It will give you the "published" page of the blog, that only you can see since your blog is private.
Later, to post one of the photos elsewhere, on that (privately) PUBLISHED page, highlight, copy a photo, then paste it where ever else you want on the web. OR: right mouse click on it. Click Copy Image ADDRESS. Then click on the Image button on the web page where you want to insert it. Then look for "URL" or on the DIS it's just an icon of 2 chain links. (Don't confuse this with just the LINK button (to the left) to post a URL link, but not a photo.) Click it, paste the URL address you had just copied. Click INSERT. Done.
That's called, "Hot-linking." When someone grabs a photo from an existing hot/live webpage and posts it elsewhere on the web via the existing link. Social media actually thrives on this. They depend on "friends" copying snippets of each other's social media posts and re-posting, retweeting it, (usually along with a corresponding link,) to entice people and to help drive traffic to the fellow "friends" accounts & help friends build up web traffic and visa versa.
So, unlike a dedicated photo
hosting site, which Photobucket is, it's a platform that's not going away anytime soon. I chose Blogger, as it's one of the oldest, most reliable blog companies, formerly Blogspot.
Now owned by Google, unlike cash-strapped Photobucket, and not going away anytime soon. And they won't start charging us for our free blogs or holding our photos hostage, as that's not how Google operates.
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