I have been using Photobucket for several years now. I actually pay for the fancy version and am very pleased with it.

Today I got an email from them saying the following...

It has been brought to our attention that you are incorrectly linking content from your Photobucket account around the Web. We would kindly request that you please begin making the appropriate changes to your links as quickly as possible as to avoid any future disruptions to your service. You are incorrectly linking to the Photobucket servers instead of the 'i' for some (or all) of your links off-site.

You will need to go in and manually change all of your links to reflect the 'i' instead of the Photobucket servers. Please see the examples below.

Incorrectly linked files look like this:

http://photobucket.com/albums/aa123/use ... lename.jpg

An example of a correctly linked file should look like this (notice the 'i'):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/aa123 ... lename.jpg

Note: You should copy the Direct Link code from your Photobucket album in order to resolve the issue.

On March 24th, 2008 at 12pm ET, Photobucket will begin disabling all incorrect links. Please begin correcting your links as quickly as possible as to avoid any disruptions to your service. Even if your links are disabled after the March 24th deadline, as soon as you fix them, your files will display as intended again. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns. Your promptness and assistance with this matter is greatly appreciated!

Now, I went to look to see if I could figure out what they were on about, and it was immediately obvious, but my question is... has anyone else received a similar letter? I have always, and have seen others told to, clicked on the last of the 4 codes available under a thumbnail - Email & IM, Direct Link, HTML Code and IMG Code. I was told to click on IMG Code. Which one do the rest of you click on when posting pics in forums?

Since I have so many pics posted, I doubt I will be manually correcting them all so be prepared for a lot of red X's where my pics used to be :roll:

Hmm, if I change to the Direct Link, the pic does not appear, just the link to the pic :-?

Are they saying we can't show our pics elsewhere?

Good news! Just got another email from them...

If you recently received an email from Photobucket titled “You are incorrectly linking from Photobucket†please ignore this message. This email was sent to you in error. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Rest assured that all of the links to your images and videos continue to work. Keeping your media safe and secure, and providing reliable hosting of your photos, images and videos is our primary concern. We thank you for your patience in this matter and your continued support.

:bounce: :lol: 8) :-? :roll:

I have always used the direct link without problems

When I tried to change my triffid pics to the direct link bit the pics disappeared and just had the link to photobucket. :-?

weird, sometimes when i don't use the direct link i can't get the images to display :-?

With the fancy version, do you get all the nasty blinky blingy ad stuff?

Just asking cos it drives me nuts!

how many photobucket photos are on here

No Zev, you get no pop ups or ads or anything. You also get unlimited number of pics you can add and lots of other stuff but the lack of pop ups and stuff makes it worthwhile. US$25 a year I think.

I have around 5000 pics posted in our Family Tree Section... plus a few thousand under general groups... and never had a prob since the day I joined up.

I use the free version.. and any ad's that come up are mostly unobrusive.

Bill..

my total pics: 16,815 8)

Album size: 1.2Gb of 5Gb

monthly bandwidth: 383Mb

Any ad is obtrusive to me :-?