LJ Scrapbook alternatives?

[ratcreature]

What are you all doing for image hosting these days? The recent news about developments with LJ brought home again the fact that there's a life cycle to websites and LJ hasn't been on an upswing for quite some time now. I haven't given LJ money for a while, reserving that for DW, but its Scrapbook is still what I use most to embed images.

(I haven't found a proper news announcement about their server move, but comment threads in the last DW maintenance post and on fail-fandomanon said that they've just moved their servers fully to Russia, and that they've been suspending/deleting LJs for political reasons? When looking for more info I've found mostly posts by Russian language LJs, some by former employees, like Anton Nossik, that I could only half-decipher via Google translate.)

Relatedly, does anybody know an easier way to back up your LJ Scrapbook than through the obnoxious interface? I've found some scripts from a few years ago, but they've changed Scrapbook since.

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[ratcreature]

Yeah, such a solution is certainly best. I have a website, but since my webhosting package is very much on the low budget side, it's not the most reliable, and I find uploading with ftp a bit tedious for the occasional picture. The LJ Scrapbook interface is awful for anything that involves multiple images, but if I just want to embed one it's still more convenient to do it all in the webbrowser. Even if it comes to bite you later when you have 400+ images in your "unsorted" pile in the LJ gallery...