I cant tell you how many other sites have broken links due to photobucket links going bad. Its the internet, things happen, sites go under. Slantsix lost LOTS of photos when their internal hosting went under. Bummer, hope we can get a few back.
I host pretty much all of my pictures for my posts on photobucket. I've never had a link "go bad". The links stop working if the user deletes or moves the picture on photobucket though, and they can be temporarily unavailable if that user exceeds their bandwidth. I had to pay for more bandwidth after a couple of my threads turned into "how to's". But I have pictures posted in threads from 8 years ago hosted on photobucket that still work great.
