No need to be drastic! Don't give up on Shipbucket just yet!
Got the same problem a while ago, but since I've only had a Photobucket account for a short time, I figured it was too young to be grandfathered into the "original size" VIP club, provided such a thing even exists. Maybe you forgot to select this one option that one time, maybe it de-selected itself when you weren't looking.
For the alternative, I second Henrik: you can move to Dropbox, which lets you hotlink images to full size with
a few already documented tricks (no worse than Photobucket overall). The interface is fairly clean-looking and easy to grasp, the structure is flexible, plus you can upload all kinds of stuff that isn't pictures, and live-update uploaded files without the back-and-forth hassle of removing an image where you noticed a mistake and re-uploading one with the same name.
And one major change from the early days, you don't even have to install the Dropbox client!
I was a bit wary about switching over this time around, since I've always found the local client borderline invasive. Turns out you can now go to the Dropbox homepage, create an account and you get a fully online storage, albeit limited to 2Gb. Oh, they will bug you from time to time to buy more storage, but that's the only downside I've found so far.
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