As I am sure that many of you have noticed, over 90% of the pictures on this website died today. It appears that Photobucket decided, with essentially no notification, to disable all "third party image hosting" unless you pay them $400/year to turn it back on. This is essentially ransomware, much like the recent "WannaCry" virus that was garnering so much attention lately.


As such, everyone who hosts pictures with photobucket on this site (or any other forum, blog, website, or social media) has all of their pictures essentially deleted.

We encourage everyone to backup their pictures while they still can, and move them to another site. I am going to see if there is any way to automate this process on our side (like I did in the DIY forum to prevent this from happening on walkthroughs), but it is very unlikely that will happen.