recommend photo hosting?

[cos]

Yahoo's mistreatment of flickr has been annoying me at a low level for a while, but I'm still using flickr out of inertia, even though I hate yahoo. I think my inertia just got a kick:

Hey cospics! About your photos...

You've run into one of the limits of a free account. Your free account will only display the most recent 200 photos you've uploaded. All of your photos beyond 200 will remain hidden from view until you either delete newer photos, or upgrade to a Pro account.

None of your photos have been deleted, and if you upgrade, they'll all come back unharmed.

Looking at the "limits of a free account" page, I also see this: "If your free account is inactive for 90 consecutive days, it will be deleted."

In other words, if I wanna stay with flickr, I'd better pay Yahoo. Yuck. So tell me what other photo hosting sites are good, ones I won't feel dirty giving money to. Snapfish? Photobucket? What do you use and what do you think of it?

EDIT - I want:

• Raw linking for hosting photos for posts elsewhere
• Tagging, and easy URLs for tag sets
• Automatically generated resized images & flexible thumnail views
• ... a Facebook app would be nice too

I don't care much about weekly / monthly upload limits: I don't post enough photos for it to matter. A more localized rate-limit could be a problem, because I might upload all my photos in a particular month in one evening.

Comments

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

I use Picasa and really, really like it.

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

I've been using Fotki and am very pleased with it so far. Sane TOS, limited storage space free account (but it's totally free), unlimited bandwidth and storage if you pay the reasonable yearly fee as well as some other gizmos I don't use much.

[alandd.livejournal.com]

I have my own site at dreamhost.com and just run gallery there...

If you sign up, please enter that aland@aland.us referred you when you sign up, or click http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?42536 and sign up without entering any promo code or referrer. :-)

I'm pretty happy with them - lots of disk and bandwith, and I got an amazing deal when I signed up - $10/month for their top plan. If you're interested I'll try to let you know the next time I notice them running a promo...

Picasa really is the only other alternative

[regorfa.livejournal.com]

I use photobucket quite a bit because it has integrated well with LJ, but when I went on a trip and had over 500 photos, picasa was by far the easiest to upload quickly. Plus it integrates well with my iGoogle account that I already have. But I gotta echo the sentiments above - to a large extent, google owns me. I use iGoogle, google reader, google calendar...it's not good for a diversity of styles.

[(Anonymous)]

I use Photobox.co.uk. They great and you get 40 free prints when you sign up! Plus you are able to put all your pictures onto gifts and stuff.. check them out! Hope that helps..

[catness.livejournal.com]

I use fotki, sorta... (which means yes I pay them and like them, but I haven't done much with them because I'm too busy).

[geoffroi.livejournal.com]

webshots is unlimited these days...

[justinjs.livejournal.com]

I believe that those "limits of a free account" bits were there before the Yahoo purchase. At least, I am certain that the most-recent-200-ish photos aspect was always a limitation with the free accounts. That isn't something Yahoo imposed.

What do you hate about Yahoo, by the way?

Snapfish seems pretty good if your end goal is letting people see photos that they likely will buy physical prints of -- but it's very much not set up to be a good general-purpose photo sharing site.

[struct.livejournal.com]

IINM, SmugMug meets most if not all of your requirements, and has a nice interface to boot.

[cheshyre]

No suggestions, just a request that you post an update once you decide, because I may be looking as well...

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

I'm biased because I work for them, but give Shutterfly a try. It's free and unlimited.

good luck!