digitaloutsider Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 So, recently, Photobucket has been migrating free user accounts over to a new tier which does not include image hotlinking. Hotlinking allows you to host an image on Photobucket, and then have the ability to embed it anywhere on the Internet, such as our forum for example. In order to have hotlinking enabled, Photobucket kindly requests that you pay them $400 for the elite privilege of that. Photobucket can fuck right off. People with free accounts will have all hotlinked images now show up as a "P500" error, saying that you don't have that feature. It appears this is a rolling change and has not affected all accounts yet. This is TERRIBLE for so many forums across the Internet. Until the last couple of years, we did not have any way of hosting images locally. MANY old posts on our forum utilize pictures that are hosted on Photobucket. Those posts, including FAQs, write-ups, and tutorials, are now effectively lost or incomplete. If you have any FAQs or other important threads on this board, I urge you to please re-upload all of the PB-hosted images, either to the forum or a service like Imgur. "VIP" users, or anyone who has contributed a great deal of content or time to this board, can contact me and I can set you up with storage on my own server if you'd like. For now, Imgur is probably one of the better solutions for us as they don't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. They're effectively the image hosting backbone for Reddit. If you have any issues using the file attachment feature when posting, please let me know so I can look into it. White93z34 1 Quote
Psych0matt Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 Ugh, I have years worth of pictures hosted there, because it's always been free and reliable, albeit not having that great of a website since they revamped it a few years ago, but I've circumvented that by using the app since I use my phone mostly anyway. That being said, the thought of having to download/move/save/backup 10+ years of pictures is a daunting task, not to mention the sheer annoyance that it's going to cause, not only for me but lots of other people here and elsewhere online. I remember being so annoyed at a lot of the 60degree links/threads being dead when getting into the LQ1, having such a promising answer and not having any idea what's actually going on because there's no pictures. I might try and update some old threads (I have some threads I'd like to keep intact, like my cutlass), but that most likely won't happen, I've got more important things to waste my time on. /rant digitaloutsider 1 Quote
digitaloutsider Posted June 30, 2017 Author Report Posted June 30, 2017 We've got a lot, I don't see the relatively small userbase here exceeding our current capability. 94 olds vert 1 Quote
Imp558 Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 Perhaps if members were to volunteer to peruse the old faqs and stickies looking for photobucket images and save/repost them in the thread? If we knew how many would help we could take sections. Quote
Nas Escobar Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 Fucking WOW. They managed to destroy 90% of the information on 90's cars. Damn. I'm gonna have to remake my build thread. primergray, digitaloutsider and Psych0matt 3 Quote
Galaxie500XL Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 The ugly thing here are older articles written by people no longer active on the forum...it's going to be all but impossible to repair the damage. 94 olds vert, digitaloutsider, Nas Escobar and 2 others 5 Quote
jiggity76 Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 I used Photobucket when I first found this forum but haven't since. The site takes forever now to load my pics and it's just a hassle. Someone at work told me about Imagur but haven't looked into it. Someone on this forum said I can just bypass Photobucket and go from my phone directly to the forum. Haven't played around with it yet but I want to post some new pics here soon. Quote
55trucker Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 It's fair to *ass*u*me* that any photos still in the old website will be lost as well? everything I have *linked* to is by Photobucket. I haven't found a way to move those over here to the new site, see this link to what IS sitting there currently, it's just a fraction of what I did originally have shown, http://www.w-body.com/gallery/image/109-classics-on-kent/ when Luke did the major website upgrade in 2015 all of my old photos in the *then* old site were permanently lost. That would have been approx 50 photos. Quote
Galaxie500XL Posted June 30, 2017 Report Posted June 30, 2017 Incredibly bad move on their part. I wouldn't pay $400.00, either. RobertISaar and primergray 2 Quote
jiggity76 Posted July 5, 2017 Report Posted July 5, 2017 So what has everyone decided on how to post pics, NOT using Photobucket? I found a 91 Cutlass vert by my mom's house over the 4th and would love to share it with you guys. The guy wasn't home but he also had a 94 DOHC vert in his garage that was covered but couldn't get any real good shots of it. Friend of my mom says he knows the guy and the 94 is black with white top, didn't know about HUD or interior color. The 91 is black, black top and dark grey leather interior. No HUD and I assume has the 3.1 motor. Quote
Nas Escobar Posted July 5, 2017 Report Posted July 5, 2017 I'd just upload them here and host them here. If anything I guess we could chip some more money to host our pics here. Quote
jiggity76 Posted July 5, 2017 Report Posted July 5, 2017 I'll play around with it this weekend and see if I can just upload from my phone or computer or something, thanks. Quote
Nas Escobar Posted July 5, 2017 Report Posted July 5, 2017 I'll play around with it this weekend and see if I can just upload from my phone or computer or something, thanks. If you use your phone, you'll have to use the full site. Imp558 1 Quote
digitaloutsider Posted July 5, 2017 Author Report Posted July 5, 2017 Host them here or use Imgur. Quote
jiggity76 Posted July 5, 2017 Report Posted July 5, 2017 How do you "host" them? I've heard of Imgur too. Quote
Nas Escobar Posted July 6, 2017 Report Posted July 6, 2017 How do you "host" them? I've heard of Imgur too. Upload them here. At the bottom of the mobile site press "full site" and when you reply or make a new thread, press the paper clip and that will allow you to attach pictures to the post. Host is just a fancy word for the place of upload. Quote
jiggity76 Posted July 6, 2017 Report Posted July 6, 2017 Ok, thanks Nas. I want to post some pics of the 91 vert and some of my cleaned up Cutlass. I might have some other stuff too. Quote
Imp558 Posted July 6, 2017 Report Posted July 6, 2017 I might have some other stuff too. Let's just get it out of the way and say nobody wants penis pictures before it becomes a problem. digitaloutsider 1 Quote
jiggity76 Posted July 6, 2017 Report Posted July 6, 2017 Oh wow!, no, no. Car related stuff! I also don't want that. Let's just get it out of the way and say nobody wants penis pictures before it becomes a problem. Imp558 1 Quote
Psych0matt Posted July 8, 2017 Report Posted July 8, 2017 Well, it's happened to me. I can kinda understand no new links, but this sucks. I have 10+years of posts that no longer exist... Quote
55trucker Posted July 8, 2017 Report Posted July 8, 2017 ouch.......that hurts, any photos in there that you needed to retrieve? Quote
94 olds vert Posted July 8, 2017 Report Posted July 8, 2017 Well, it's happened to me. I can kinda understand no new links, but this sucks. I have 10+years of posts that no longer exist... Same here Quote
digitaloutsider Posted July 8, 2017 Author Report Posted July 8, 2017 Ran into it again tonight, this time a thread on Riv Performance. If you're on a PC, you can right click on the image and copy the image location, then paste it in your browser. That will bring you to the Photobucket page. 9 times out of 10, it will show you the stupid fucking P500 error again. Force refresh the browser (hold shift while hitting refresh) and it should show up. You can copy all your images this way and save them to upload elsewhere. Motherfucking assholes. 94 olds vert 1 Quote
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