Why, Photobucket? Why?

I have returned from The Great European Adventure! It was a good trip and I do plan to make a post about it at some point, but at the moment I'm too annoyed with Photobucket to do much more than vent.

Turns out that, about ten days ago, they decided not to allow 3rd party hosting any more despite it being free for years. And, as a result, almost all the links to images in my posts no longer work. Years worth of Prison Break recaps, shippy picspams, Oscar dress reports, holiday posts, photography posts, basically almost everything that involved a picture is now ruined.

I'm not paying $400 a year, cos that's fucking ridiculous, but to move all my photos and manually change all the links in all my posts will take forever. I love going back and re-reading my old recaps and, as has recently been proved, other people sometimes stumble across my blog and enjoy my shippy picspams, and I don't want to lose them either. So all I can hope is that Photobucket change their minds. I don't know how likely that is, but an awful lot of other people are pissed off with them about this too, so there's a chance. *fingers crossed*