You're going to pay for storage somehow, somewhere. For my photo-heavy WP.com blog (of 15 years!) I've always hosted my photos on Flickr. I pay the $50/year for

You're going to pay for storage somehow, somewhere. For my photo-heavy WP.com blog (of 15 years!) I've always hosted my photos on Flickr. I pay the $50/year for Flickr Pro which gives me all the photo storage I could ever want. I agree with you about the ads on the free tier. Worse, the ads are extremely low quality. I complained about this (shaking my fist into the air, essentially) on my blog not long ago. https://blog.jimgrey.net/2022/02/08/why-i-still-recommend-wordpress-com-for-new-bloggers-but-am-not-as-bullish-on-it-as-i-used-to-be/ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2022/02/08/why-i-still-recommend-wo...