Registered at IMGur. This place is bitchin'. And Tigg, you can resize your photos if you have an account there.
It doesn't take two hours to load, there aren't any annoying popup ads, and they don't LOCK YOUR FUCKIN' PHOTOS AND DEMAND A RANSOM. I am going to work on downloading everything from all 7 of my photobucket accounts and put them all on my new IMGur account. That place is so great. There is nearly zero wait time at this place at all. You login to your account, click a photo, do whatever, almost everything you do loads instantly.
My only gripe (which will turn out not to be much of a gripe at all) is that the file URL name is always random when you upload it. I imagine the reason for this is because the URL for every IMGur uploaded image does not directly reflect your account (which results in much faster load time). In other words, if 30 different people have an image saved as "banner.jpg" and the upload URL wasn't randomized, the other 29 people will not be able to host their "banner.jpg" image, because that file name is obviously already taken through IMGur. BUT, when you upload that file, the "name" of it is saved as "banner", so you can navigate through your hosted images in IMGur fairly easily. There is also a solution to the URL issue as well. I'll give an example.
The image below is my first IMGur image that I hosted with an actual IMGur account, as opposed to uploading as a guest. I hosted the image through my saved pictures on my computer. It is "image-1.gif". Here is the image, and here is the IMGur URL.
http://i.imgur.com/v8oQvga.gif
You'll notice it isn't image-1.gif. But you can literally add your own extension at the end of the URL to all of IMGur's URLs. It's pretty amazing.
So I can do this, and the image still works...
http://i.imgur.com/v8oQvga.gif/image-1.gif
This is the place to be. IMGur.
