Photobucket Screws Over Its Users

Yeah, I'm sure this is old news by now but a month or so ago Photobucket decided that they would end their free third party image hosting and charge $400 a year for it.  Needless to say, a LOT of people and their websites were affected by this.  For me, it was just the loss of two web counters, fortunately.  For a whole lot more, the loss was their entire site(s).

So here I am looking for third party hosting sites for my two meager little counters, and you'll never guess where I finally landed.  First, I tried Imgur, and that just didn't feel right.  I looked into it and it seemed wrong.  Then I tried a dubious little site called VGY.ME.  Interesting, very simple, yet the url it gave me for my first image didn't work in the Boingdragon counter hosting site.  By the way, that's what I use for counters.  Boingdragon has been around for years, is very easy to use, and is free although they like a small donation.  So after trying the url from the other site and having it not show up in Boingdragon, I thought "Hmmm... let me try Blogger."  So I pasted the url of one of the pictures from one of my posts here, and what do you know, it works!  So now I have to try to actually create and replace my two counters.  One I use right here.  The other is on my art and framing website.  Now to upload my images and see if I can get this thing done and over with.