I'd used ImageShack for years - for free - but now they've decided I need to pay for that service. I need an alternate place to stash images for linking to forum threads. And to replace my now-missing sig image since the forum software no longer allows uploading jpegs for signatures and instead wants an external link.

Hi,
 
I don't know. I use my website for the images I need, but that's $3 bux per month or $4 ... don't even remember.

I don't really use that sort of thing much, but I think photobucket is still free *.
 
 
 
* nothing is ever free.

I have a web server, too, but I stopped using it to host images for the forum after an incident wherein a web designer screwed up the file permissions, causing everybody here to be presented with a password prompt whenever they looked at one of my threads. That's when I switched to ImageShack.
 
Photobucket looks like a good alternative. At least, they use the word "free" a lot on their site. I'll give it a try. Thanks, paulo.

I use photobucket

So long and thanks for all the fish.

photobucket is the one I use. 

I've been through them all and settled on http://imgur.com/ - you can drag your photos onto it, upload them and it will instantly give you a selection of links to the photo complete with automatic copy buttons to copy the links to the clipboard. My only complaint is that you don't get a link with the full image extension, which you'll need if you're linking to photos on this forum for example. It just gives you a URL with the name of the file. But that's no biggie, you can just add the extension yourself when you need it. It used to give you a link with the extension, but for some bizarre reason they took it out recently. 
 
There are also some Firefox and Chrome add-ons which add a right-click menu command to automatically upload web photos to Imgur. It works brilliantly. 

Thanks, sharke. I'll check it out.
 
Happily, my sig image has been restored now, via Photobucket. That formula has been a great ice-breaker over the years, motivating dozens of people to PM me asking what it is. I've met some great folks in the process.
 
Second test, looking for candidates to replace my dishonestly out-of-date avatar, a photo from c. 1995. Here's the most recent selfie I could find...
 

You look very much like someone and I cannot think who....