Photobucket is not a good place to host your avatar

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FiLUK — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:32:41 GMT

image shack is the best for any image hosting.

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hearsetrax — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:31:30 GMT

yeah they have a smallish tendency to dissapear never had one totally vanish on me yet

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Todd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:10:51 GMT

Yours is one of the ones that vanished earlier! It seems to be back now, but I could not see it a few hours ago.

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Todd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:10:09 GMT

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hearsetrax — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:08:39 GMT

strange..... I've never had any issues with them yet .... but of course yet is the operative word

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DC81 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:05:11 GMT

Not to mention Photobucket has very poor security.

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Gentlespirit — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:37:04 GMT

Thank you for the information Todd...I've been using Photobucket, and I noticed today one of my New Year's pictures were gone. I even got my avatar from there. Thanks a lot.

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sorensonfan41 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:30:28 GMT

Hmmm.....thanks for the SkyDrive suggestion. I've signed up for that and may start using that to host pictures of future big winners.

Photobucket is not a good place to host your avatar

Todd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:16:58 GMT

I see lots of broken avatars today, from those who are using the photobucket web site to host their avatars.

Photobucket is not designed for that, and they will periodically move to cutoff that kind of use of their site.

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