Photobucket Gets A Facebook Facelift: Easier Uploads And A New Timeline-Like Story Feature

Photobucket is one of the oldest sites dedicated to photo and video sharing -- and, at 100 million users, and 3.5 billion images served per day, and 10 billion photos stored -- one of the biggest. But with the rise of other photo sharing and storage options from Facebook (955 monthly active users), Twitter (500m registered users), Instagram, Yfrog and so many more, its position as a go-to place for storing and sharing images has eroded. Now the company wants to tacle that head-on with a new redesign that upgrades the user experience with new look, better uploading and a new social feature called Photobucket Stories that creates Timeline-like narratives that friends can use collaboratively to create image-based recollections of an event. The changes could not come a moment too soon. It was only a week ago that Photobucket landed in the news with a story about how dodgy "fuskers" were using sneaky programs to mine private photos on the site and nude ones to Reddit and other sites. If that wasn't bad enough, the follow up question that this story raised, "Remember Photobucket?" kind of says it all about how some regard Photobucket's relevance today.

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