re: What's going on with photobucket?

I never had a Photobucket account, so I can't speak to getting your stuff off of there, but if you try to post a PB pic directly on Imgur (and most likely any other hosting site, for that matter), you'll just get the PB dial of death. The best bet is probably to download your pics first, then re-upload them to Imgur. A pain, I know, but PB hasn't left their users with a lot of options.

ETA: Just saw that Chicken is getting ready to remove PB from the list of approved image hosting sites, because of all the images that were affected. I know most PB users are about to switch anyway, but just a heads up.