pbase

I love pbase.com. It certainly doesn't make me grumpy. What does make me grumpy is the number of people who either don't know it exists, or who use it without paying their ludicrously low fees.

Pbase is by far the best online photo site ever. It is fast. There is no advertising, no banners, not even that "Ads by Google" thing on the side. They don't try to sell you prints, greeting cards, frames, calendars or any of that soon-to-be-landfill shit the other sites try to hawk on you.

What you do get, for a measly $23/year, is a whopping 200MB of storage space for your pictures. They let you direct link to your photos. They let you upload and download the full size, unadulterated, straight-from-your-digital-camera version of your photos, if you want. You can set up as many galleries as you like. And you can alter the look and feel of the galleries any way you want if you know a little about CSS (they have pre-made CSSs if you're HTML illiterate like me).

And get this, anyone you want can see your galleries. Your Aunt Sophie in Kalamazoo, your great-grandmother in Peoria, whomever. All you have to do is send them the link to your gallery in pbase, and they can see the dog, cat, grandkids, artful nudes, whatever. The link is even easy to remember it looks like this: http://www.pbase.com/yournamehere. Amazing.

Go on, throw money at these guys now.