Alternative to Photobucket?

 
Photobucket used to be alright.
 
The photo editor was actually quite sophisticated, but now they've dumbed it down to just a set of gimmicks and 'fun' things you can to an image.
 
Plus it's now so slow at doing everything, and 'clunky' with it - very unintuitive.
 
For some reason, it doesn't sort your images correctly according to date uploaded like it once did, and for some unfathomable reason they decided to take away the quite useful one-click copy of an image's URL.
 
 

Same exact experience here.
 
I haven't tried it yet, but Imgur is on my list to check out. It looks like a decent interface - they give you a simple popup dialog with four options for uploading files: browse, drag 'n drop, paste from clipboard or enter a URL. 
 

I poked around Imgur a bit. But when I tried uploading a file it was just as dog-slow as Photobucket.
 
Positive: it allows anonymous uploads so you don't need to create an account. Not unless you ever want to find your images again, anyway. 
 
 

Oops - uploading works fine from the "images" page, using the links on the right hand side.
 
But if I click that  "Upload Images" link at the top of the page, my browser freezes once I've selected files I wish to upload - I can't access the other tabs and have to force quit Safari altogether.

ampfixer
What about using generic cloud storage like Google Drive. I'm using it to share work files and love it.

Could be an option. Though I avoid all-things Google, there should be equivalent elsewhere.

TBH, the only use I have for Photobucket and the likes is to post images here. 
 
Anything which I consider private I don't take pictures of because, well, it's private. (That would be my first tip for those  poor actresses whose naked pics were leaked on the web. Just don't take naked pics. It's that mindblowingly simple).
 
If someone should access my offline photo folder, they'd be in for one heck of a kitten pic marathon, with a bunch of guitars, audio gear,  and 100% decent pictures of my lovely lady.

My photos would likewise be pretty boring, and not likely to be of any use to terrorists. Unless they were working on a nefarious audio device, perhaps a really cool-looking equalizer that embeds subliminal jihad slogans into your vocal tracks. 

djwayne
Well I had pictures of my guitars, coin collection, vehicle, and my house which showed the address to a bunch of creepy people on another forum. They were able to identify me, my address, my phone number, e-mail address, luckily they haven't tried to steal my ID yet....all from pictures I innocently posted on my private library, I thought. They have threatened me, with physical violence, stealing my stuff, and vandalizing my vehicle and house. 
 
I posted one picture and that was all they needed to access my complete library. Photobucket opened the door for them to all kinds of information about me. 

I sure hope that you've forward all those threats to the authorities.
 
It must be disconcerting I admit.
 
But then again, there are plenty of people who know where one lives. Every one on your street knows your address - heck they probably know when you're home and when you aren't. What I mean is that even in the world, we are exposed, constantly. 

djwayne
Well it's not feasible to report them to the authorities because they remain anonymous. They won't introduce themselves, and act just like serious stalkers.  You never know when they'll make their move. It started out being a friendly website, but the character of the posters there has turned into scum. I can't believe how nasty these people can be. They've broken every TOS agreement there is. 

There has to be a way to retrace them - ISP address  or other. 

By the way - I did receive threats once on Facebook from a crazy fan of my wife. I've documented the whole thing, took screenshots, saved them on a server. But I never replied once. I just let the guy dig his own hole. He's in Montreal and I always wonder whether I'll inadvertently get to meet him face to face when I go there...
 
As for the rest...
 
Last year, a month after we moved in here, just as I was starting to feel home, those burglars ended up in my backyard. I came face to face with them when I opened the blinds.
 
As I kept getting subpoena after subpoena to show up in court as a witness, their list of felonies grew exponentially, and apparently, they were charged with home invasion with a gun.
 
Doing a bit of research on their past and seeing how they progressed down that dirty path, it's pretty clear to me that those guys are likely to end up shooting someone.
 
What this made me realize is that safety is relative and even though one never received a threat, there's no telling what may come his way, whether it's the result of some random coincidence or pure bad luck or something planned. If you're as ready as you can be for that, you're as ready as you'll ever be to handle those threats.
 
It's worth investing into security. ADT and the likes are your friends, and like our agent told us, security works in layers.
 
Just the sign may work as a deterrent for x% of the potential criminals. If it doesn't you need back ups. We've invested in an assortment of them, and have them strategically placed everywhere around the house. And, trust me, the minute we get the green card, we'll be praising the second amendment. 
 
 

djwayne
Well I had pictures of my guitars, coin collection, vehicle, and my house which showed the address to a bunch of creepy people on another forum. They were able to identify me, my address, my phone number, e-mail address, luckily they haven't tried to steal my ID yet....all from pictures I innocently posted on my private library, I thought. They have threatened me, with physical violence, stealing my stuff, and vandalizing my vehicle and house. 
 
I posted one picture and that was all they needed to access my complete library. Photobucket opened the door for them to all kinds of information about me. 

I made my photbucket  libraries private …did you know that you can password your whole acct .
they do have that option (or did) a while back .
I did it for the same reason you are concerned about …
as far as I know …now when I post an image online that's the only image that will be seen .
good luck 
 
Kenny