I stopped using TinyPic long ago. I don't know if they stopped, but the site used to recycle URLs, so images you uploaded years ago would be replaced by something new and show up wherever you embedded it.

more importantly, what shall we do now here on SOWNY???

not as easy as it looks!

Boardhost sent me this reply in response to my question about this:

"Thank you for your message. We are currently looking into this situation and hope that we can have a replacement in place before the service shuts down."

So at least they know about it and are trying for an alternate. 

I've been testing out imgbox.com and so far, it seems promising, provided you remember to copy the URL in full size mode and not thumbnails. But there's no word on rescuing Frank D'Angelo. 
 

Tinypic.com has started deleting images from its freebie site, asking 8 bucks a year for the privilege of retaining your old stuff.

But I just noticed that Boardhost has added a new link under the "upload" button in the message compose window. It takes you to a site called "imgbb," which has the same sort of interface that tinypic used. But it has a bonus - at least for now - of being free. And it puts the code straight into your window, no copying and pasting required. The biggest difference - a 16 mb limit, which should be pretty good for most of us. 

You can try it out when/if you want to post any future pictures here.

https://imgbb.com/