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Understandably every PB user would be miffed at their decision to change their hosting rules, but (and maybe I'm showing my ignorance here) why not subscribe to KM Network? It's reasonably priced, you get 500MB of storage for your pictures(that will never be taken down), and if more people subscribed the site would get better n better...
Personally I've never been comfortable with the idea that my work would be available on 'free' sites like PB because it draws into question, who actually owns the image? And on that reason alone I opted to subscribe to KM Network. I don't need to worry now if PB or whoever decides to change the rules to link to my own images.
And no, I don't work for KM Network 
You nail it perfectly!!! This would indeed be the perfect solution.
So, why did I not subscribe (yet): for many, perhaps bad, reasons (I hope I don't offend anyone here, it is certainly not the intention):
- because the only payment option given is paypal, I don't have a paypal account, I never needed it for anything else.
- because my photo site of choice (until recently) allowed me to put all my pictures there, not only those that are modelling related
- because the added value of subscribing seemed limited
- I did not move to nikon imagespace because my free space on kitmaker was exhausted but because the photo management software on kitmaker is cumbersome to use
- because the personal pages on kitmaker (the one you get by clicking on your nickname) look very poorly, and if I want a presence on the internet, this means I still need to build my own site (what I don't have anymore because to much work to maintain) or go to Facebook. (what I did not do either as I am a bit scared of that thing).
- because a few years ago I answered to a request for ideas to update the site that I would like the above to be altered and things did not change.
And there seem to be many like me and this puts this site in an impossible situation. It evolves very slowly by lack of investment by lack of income, can't keep up with the offers of the internet giants (who can?) and remains a best effort of a very small group of people. Users are looking for services elswhere that (c)should be integrated in kitmaker.
Maybe we should think about crowdfunding and together pay for an agreed set of improvements yet to come within a given timeframe, and get or money back by getting a free subscription for some time?
