Photobucket Causing Grief With Hosted Images

Robster · July 16, 2017, 11:49:17 AM

Did some searching and discovered that 'tinypic' is also controlled by Photobucket. This has really made a mess of some important educational posts!

I have 7 external hard drives so I haven't lost anything but every image on this site that was from Photobucket is no longer visible.

trout · July 16, 2017, 01:41:19 PM

I save all of my images to harddrives and when I post here I use the forum gallery :good:

Fulvio · July 16, 2017, 07:37:58 PM

Quote from: 'trout' pid='110101' dateline='1500178279'I save all of my images to harddrives and when I post here I use the forum gallery :good:

Surely that's a given?

Nobody should EVER rely on any third-party service for anything. I spend half my life on /r/Dogecoin telling people exactly that regarding wallets. If YOU don't have the keys, it isn't yours, its whoever has them, and they just allow you to give them your money for 'safekeeping'. Yeah, right...

With a small amount of massaging, and JPEG compression set at 75%, the average image comes in under 1mb. The 'going rate' for drives now is 4Tb, and half that for USB-powered portables.

That's 4 MILLION images for under $200, and possibly closer to $100 if you buy right.

There is absolutely NO reason to use any external service to store images, other than for ease of linking, and that's handily covered by Imgur.

As for relying on the forum, well, without any casting any aspersions whatsoever, can I remind you all that this is not its first incarnation? There are absolutely no guarantees of anything, ever.

Nevol · July 17, 2017, 08:02:59 AM

Quote from: 'Robster' pid='110097' dateline='1500171557'Did some searching and discovered that 'tinypic' is also controlled by Photobucket.

I used tinypic a lot and most of my images on CCF were tinypic, and I checked them recently and they're all gone. I'm not going to re-do them, too much time involved.

I still have all my original images, never deleted any and had no intention of doing so. I do have a heap of old scans (Pre USB times) that need to be re-done and I will get around to that some day. Yeah, right!

I'm using the TACF Gallery exclusively now and I keep a simple spreadsheet of all the images I put in the gallery, and keep the link in the same document. Takes a little extra time, but I never have to go searching for a link. Once I get really organised, all my image links will be in 1 doc.

gnome · July 17, 2017, 11:42:54 AM

I had a similar plan once, Nancy,

Nevol · July 17, 2017, 11:55:47 AM

Quote from: 'gnome' pid='110121' dateline='1500257574'I had a similar plan once, Nancy,

How'd it work out?

gnome · July 17, 2017, 02:01:49 PM

On the backburner with alot of other things I'm afraid.

Unicorn · July 17, 2017, 02:07:13 PM

Quote from: 'gnome' pid='110125' dateline='1500265909'On the backburner with alot of other things I'm afraid.

Likewise G & Nevol .... my backburner is so large now I'm going to name it Fukushima!

Robster · July 17, 2017, 02:48:19 PM

Plus one! :dash1:

Triggersmob · July 17, 2017, 07:07:10 PM

I keep all my coin pictures on CCF coin gallery. I can
use the search function to find coins quickly and some
files I have added words like silver, square, scalloped,
bi-metallic etc, so I can search even quicker for those.

Fulvio · July 18, 2017, 12:54:25 PM

The problem with using site-specific galleries is not being able to link them to other places. Just about everyone feels a sense of ownership over their galleries and disables hotlinking. Which means maintaining multiple locations if you don't use a service such as Ingur.

Yes, Mark will tell you there are costs involved, which is true. But this is not what the internet was designed to be before it was commercialised and perverted, turning it into a massive clickbait farm instead of a hyperlinked library.

Call me a dreamer, but I much preferred the old ways.