MariaDNoCA explained Photobucket issue in several posts the past few weeks.
I have been developing a workaround for uploading new images that won't be lost if a service like Photobucket changes their terms or goes out of business. As I mentioned was able to fully migrate all of the existing images that were on the Recipe Swap, shared Photobucket account. So for those I am going to create some galleries where members can browse those images and link to them if they want, and I also need to do some sort of script to rewrite the links in the database so that where those Photobucket images are linked to in old threads they will be updated to show them from here instead of the Photobucket (Pay Up ransom) broken image thing.
For uploading images, what we have now is not the most elegant option but Maria has been testing it successfully. If you'd like to use it, can you email me and I will provide instructions?