That might work with low view counts. But it’s not a very reliably model. And it’s still crap that they gave no warning at all.
I agree, and yes, it’s terrible that they didn’t seem to give any warning.
Mine are affected too. Created a small utility to help migrate the pb links embedded in my forum posts to either imgur.com or ImageShack.
now slowly migrating away from pb... as of v1.0.3, it now supports migrating my posts in BLF, CPF and TFF. Now, just hope I can still find all my photos from my local drive to be uploaded to imgur or ImageShack.
this utility is to address the tedious process of identifying those hashed filename from imgur or ImageShack. Unlike photobucket, imgur (and imageshack, etc.) do not use our original filename when linking to the file. For example, when I upload the file named "S1RvsH1RvsH102.jpg" to photobucket, I get a link like "http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss200/rookiedaddy/Flashlights/Olight/H1R/Photos/S1RvsH1RvsH102.jpg" from photobucket where the original filename is intact. But when I upload to imgur, imgur gives me a link like "http://i.imgur.com/ydb5bRs.jpg" where the filename is hashed and original filename is preserved (luckily) as one of the file properties.
this makes updating our posts in forum very tedious. So the app's purpose is to look at photobucket's filename and do a lookup to user's imgur image from a local repository and try to find a match from the file property and replace it with imgur's link.
Sorry… 
Cheers 
My all pictures disappeared from forum!!!
Oh DEAR LORD come help me please!!!
Edit:
That is really a hell of a job and almost impossible mission especially if you delete that pictures after uploading them.
I do recall a heads up warning this was about to happen but didn’t pay much heed since it’s not my host,
However when I’ve seen things start like this before it always seems to set the trend, so currently setting up a standalone backup driver and transferring all my pics to that and downloading all from Imgur in a separate folder for what might be the inevitable with Imgur and the others as well.
Rookiedaddy I can see where you may become one of the most beloved members of all time at photobucket for sure, that is really cool how you have that setup and saves a lot of people I’d bet.
Whaa!! this is crisis!!!
It is… My all work from 5 forums disappeared forever.
Ransom.
I copied all my images from Photobucket to Imgur a while back and edited a bunch of my posts. That said, I no longer use their crappy service.
I’ve had to pay for a few years now but about a tenth of the $400 asking price. I wonder if mine will disappear?
Thanks once again Photobucket.
New category: Company Policy Changes
Yeah…
You mean ransom attacked photobucket? If so maybe they return that pictures?
Answer in short, yes.
It seems only the $399 subscription gets you 3rd party hosting……
(Copy & pasted from Photobucket T&C
Available Plus Account Plans : Photobucket offers the following Plus Account Plans:
o Plus 50 Plan: 52 GB of Storage for $59.99 / Year. The Plus 50 Plan does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting.
o Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting.
o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.
If that’s the case and they have been hacked, they’re sure taking their time letting people know of such situation.
Seems likely that PB made this daft decision by themselves :person_facepalming:
No 
I meant It’s like PB holding their users to ransom, pay up or else go through all the time & hassle to relink all your posts etc using another service.
I’m posting this as a way of expressing myself.
Thanks Lj for the info.
OK, Where’s OUR master mind SB …. Hello… SB where are you … knock knock.
What can we do now, Ah Ha…
I have an IDEA,
We all here at BLF do like we always have done when a disaster strikes, like when another member or in this case our entire world here is at risk and we can all just chip in to purchase for SB more POWER meaning…
Our own BLF private image hosting server to preserve all the work that’s been done here over the last 17-18 years or so…??
Are You Following Me…?? Is this a doable thing.?
I’ll chip in a couple “C” Notes as a down payment for a new server picture hosting thingy for SB to link just for us at BLF…. Well Maybe … ??
I spend most of my time here in the way back times in the Archives which also happens to be when PB seemed to be the primary hosting service I guess because a lot is already missing, just gone, so I’ve noticed,
So maybe we might take this big issue as an opportunity to expand our BLF capabilities and I know from past experience like lets see last big deal was OL, hum what about his pics, was he PB also?
That thought is horrid to me, oh know, scared to go check…
I remember how long it took us to buy a lathe also, so a server if feasible at all, might not take long at all, mostly depends I imagine on the amount of work it takes for SB… if anything…
Only person in the know about these things here would be SB of course so I’ll offer to start with a $200 donation myself, since it’s my bright idea, or maybe not so bright … ?? 
Edit: Oh there’s SB, doing tuneups, I’ve not said one bad word YET… or maybe I might have but don’t know it yet…
Edit 2: Sorry about the extra decade added to the length of BLF archives, but always optimistically looking towards the future, you know.?