Yes - they've caught up with me by the looks of it ....
I'm not seriously upset for myself that PB have pulled the pin on free hosting - I have other options for publishing my occasional pictures, and they are more useful than PB. I wouldn't even be adverse to paying a reasonable subscription for the ongoing right to use PB as I have up until now. However it looks very much like I'll be up for a minimum of $100 pa, possibly $400 pa; It's not immediately apparent whether this figure is $AUS or $US. Most probably they are $US which translates to some $540 AUS for the full option - a ludicrous amount! Not that it matters - either amount is far in excess of what I can justify. I will just have to walk away from this quite useful option, and limit what I can do in this area in the future.
However I'm very disappointed at what this does to any worthwhile thread in this board which relies on quality pictures published at a size which makes it worth while. Some excellent threads on PPRuNe which exist for photo sharing only are now useless in the historical sense; previous pictures have been replaced by the PB "advertisement". Even if a new low cost (or even free) hosting provider is discovered, it would be a mammoth task to go back and edit every posting to point to the new URL. I suspect that most posters simply wouldn't bother.
Thank you PB, I appreciate what you have offered in the past, and I thank you for that. However you have now priced yourself out of my budget and it looks like the end of the road.....
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