It seems to me, that Bob is willing and capable of 'correcting' his threads by enabling images via direct insertion of those photos by himself, as should all other authors affected by their use of Photobucket.
However for that to happen, He, and others need their 'threads' to be live so he can go back through it to re-insert the images directly from his PC.
Thence everyone keeps using their systems as they are and all is back to normal before we fell into this 'photo' trap. Namely, not loading images from your PC.
With the utmost respect and to ease the burden such as unnecessary work etc, on Martin and the admin, it is my opinion that those threads that cannot be corrected by their authors should be deleted to free up space and bandwith etc, and let Martin get back to running the site and having a life. It is not Martin's problem to fix.
We don't need an alternative to bucket or whatever. Because at the end of the day it can happen again with any of the so called freebies. If you take the punt it's your problem fix it. So follow Bob's lead and step up to the plate.
The facility already exists and has been so, to upload Photos.
As an aside there are warning now being issued that the next 'disaster' to occur is to those that use the 'cloud' and that will not be recoverable!
Calling a spade a spade is not palatable but someone has to say so. Let Martin get back to doing what he does best running Mayhem, not fixing others disasters.