Originally Posted By: sprkplug
I'm not worried about my photos and links here on the forum. They're gone, end of story, start over if I choose, but probably not. I don't see it as a huge issue?

It's easy to blame photobucket, but truth is we've had it easy, (free), for a long, long time. To be completely blunt, if we want our photos, links, how to's, heritage, whatever, to always be around, then we need to pay Bob for the privilege of posting that stuff here. You can pay a third party site to host photos, or you can pay the site directly, but somebody deserves to get paid, somewhere. And to me, why relinquish control to a third party?

What if they all decide to go the way of photobucket?


Tony, I agree with you about paying but Bob has to balance a fee site and how much interest that would generate vs a free site.

I have no idea what it would cost nor how much storage he'd need for storing pictures here. maybe this is a sign of the times going away from free forums to "pay to post" forums?

I'm upset because of all the pictures that are lost, and the context that went along with them. How do you explain different types of cover for fish without pictures??

I honestly don't know the answer. I'm thinking of all the information that is in the archives that is or will be lost.....

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