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- July 15, 2017 at 9:22 pm #15921
Radar
ModeratorWell good old Photobucket have decide on no more free hosting of images! The costs per year are quite high, so I won’t be upgrading my account.
July 16, 2017 at 3:21 pm #69802HippoDrones
ParticipantYup, I’m not paying them. I have asked for all my images back but not heard anything yet.
I’ve not sorted a solution, although posting on Facebook and setting the image to public will allow you to embed them in here by adding the [ img ] and [ /img ] tags to the url.
July 22, 2017 at 12:34 pm #69803elessimo
Participant[imho]bollocks![/imho]
July 22, 2017 at 3:56 pm #69804Radar
ModeratorI don’t know why they are doing it, everybody I know who used them is not paying up. Having a bad effect on the forum though.
July 23, 2017 at 10:04 pm #69805HippoDrones
ParticipantIt will be interesting to see how it pans out. I will be saddened if they stick with it but won’t lose sleep…. yuss, it is poo that it breaks old links, but it will be a thing in history books I believe, where the public stood up and said no to the digital companies holding them to blackmail!
July 23, 2017 at 10:05 pm #69806elessimo
ParticipantI don’t know why they are doing it, everybody I know who used them is not paying up. Having a bad effect on the forum though.
Yes – I’m not paying either…. time for an annoyed email methinks
July 24, 2017 at 8:49 pm #69807HippoDrones
ParticipantJuly 25, 2017 at 9:53 pm #69808Radar
ModeratorJust signed up for a flikr account
July 25, 2017 at 9:53 pm #69809Radar
Moderatorseems to work ok.
July 26, 2017 at 9:32 pm #69810Radar
ModeratorI have updated one of my bike reviews with images I have saved on flikr
Can you guys see them ok?
July 26, 2017 at 10:28 pm #69811HippoDrones
ParticipantPhotos show fine mate. So a free service? Any limitations?
July 26, 2017 at 10:48 pm #69812Radar
ModeratorPhotos show fine mate. So a free service? Any limitations?
1TB, which should be fine. I am still playing with it to be honest., but it seem fine, and it is free
July 27, 2017 at 4:05 pm #69813HippoDrones
ParticipantI’ve opened an account, not got any of my old images so they are gone forever now but at least can post photos again
July 31, 2017 at 2:21 pm #69814Radar
ModeratorI’ve opened an account, not got any of my old images so they are gone forever now but at least can post photos again
I think Dave has saved back up of the site periodically, maybe some of your images would be held on these?
August 14, 2017 at 4:38 pm #69815imperialdata
KeymasterHi all. Unfortunately my backups don’t include external photos. That would mean Terabytes of data to backup.
It seems that Flickr is the best choice at the moment for external hosting.
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