Stitch ‘n Bitch: The Mylene Thread

I had some great stuff hosted by Photobucket but Rupert Murdoch took it over and made it user-paid so it's all gone.

What are you talking about?

I posted lots of images on Photobucket, which WAS a free hosting site, then they began charging stoopid prices for the storage and wouldn't let me access my own stuff so I had no choice then to let them have the lot

Ok? Did you ever consider maybe storing things in more than one place? Look up the 3-2-1 rule of digital preservation. If you want you reliability, you might need to spend some money.

Yeah, everything's backed up on an older computer if I really wanted to access it I'd take a few minutes but it should never have come to that.

I’m failing to see the issue. You’re mad because a company wanted to charge you to use their services? Entrusting your data to a free storage solution is never a good idea anyway.

They promised me a certain amount of free space and they reneged on that deal. So stuff I'd posted on forums (that are still accessible) have either a big watermark or have disappeared completely. It's breach of trust. If Births, Deaths and Marriages behaved like that they'd be blood on the street.

Yeah, I think you may have misread or misunderstood something somewhere.