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eye of ra
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Post by eye of ra » Sun Apr 15, 2018 7:00 pm

Does anyone else use PostImage?

And if so have your pictures disappeared?
Current:
480 ES Auto 1989
480 Celebration 187
480 ES Auto 1991
CLK430 Conv 2001
Hyundai i10 2015

balto8
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Re: PostImage

Post by balto8 » Sun Apr 15, 2018 7:22 pm

All my pictures in the threads are also gone. In the end we'll have to find a way to post images from our Drive or local server
1991 480 Black Turbo
2012 Seat Exeo ST
2013 VW Polo TSI DSG

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jamescarruthers
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Re: PostImage

Post by jamescarruthers » Sun Apr 15, 2018 8:45 pm

They have had to change their servers. The solution is to go back through your posts and edit ".org" to ".cc" within the img code‎. I did this today for two threads I had used it on. Eventually those links will break. 

The problem is that there is no such thing as a free lunch and whoever they had their stuff stored with got sick of them. It is a load a bandwidth being used for no money coming in. It will go bang like Photobucket.

Other forums I'm on are phpBB based like us and have their own photo storage built on and also managed to run a script to save all the Photobucket images automatically. We are lagging behind here. I for one wouldn't mind contributing funds to a club that supports a car I love in order to upgrade.‎

(P.S. I still hold a grudge against Photobucket for being greedy Internet wreckers‎!)
1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)

Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)

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WRDendy
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Re: PostImage

Post by WRDendy » Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:45 am

jamescarruthers wrote:
Sun Apr 15, 2018 8:45 pm
Other forums I'm on are phpBB based like us and have their own photo storage built on and also managed to run a script to save all the Photobucket images automatically. We are lagging behind here. I for one wouldn't mind contributing funds to a club that supports a car I love in order to upgrade.‎

(P.S. I still hold a grudge against Photobucket for being greedy Internet wreckers‎!)
Well said - a lot of useful information has disappeared from the internet thanks to Photobucket, not in the least from our own how-to section here.

I too would be willing to contribute to upkeep if it means that we can ensure that this place stays online and future-proofed. I'd also be willing to donate web-facing disk space, although I'm sure there would be more professional options if we had funds available.
Formerly known as 'Jaster'
Current: '94 GT & '88 ES
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Alan 480
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Re: PostImage

Post by Alan 480 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:44 am

yep, i do the same on another forum, not fair that some folk pay and we 'benefit'

just can't get 'somat for nowt' as they say (but not up here :-) )
Alan

480 ES 2litre 'Celebration' ? , C30 1.8ES, SS1

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dragonflyjewels
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Re: PostImage

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:51 pm

I've emailed our president and asked what we can do - maybe a voluntary donation, or better still a small annual subscription to cover the ongoing server charges. Hopefully he is back from sabbatical now and will have the time to look at options.
Sylvia

Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
hubby has
Sven - 1994 Racing Green GT
Evil Eva - 1992 Paris Blue Turbo

no previous 480s - can't bear to sell any

balto8
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Re: PostImage

Post by balto8 » Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:25 am

I'm in for both a puntual donation to get a server running and for an anual fee to keep it running. Posts without images loose precious information.
1991 480 Black Turbo
2012 Seat Exeo ST
2013 VW Polo TSI DSG

eye of ra
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Re: PostImage

Post by eye of ra » Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:13 pm

balto8 wrote:
Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:25 am
I'm in for both a puntual donation to get a server running and for an anual fee to keep it running. Posts without images loose precious information.
I would be up for the same, assuming it’s a sensible figure.

In the mean time I think I'm going to switch to Google even if it is a bit of a bind to link the images (which is why I chose PostImage) can't see them going bust anytime soon.

May take some time to update my current images and doesn’t even know where they all are.
Current:
480 ES Auto 1989
480 Celebration 187
480 ES Auto 1991
CLK430 Conv 2001
Hyundai i10 2015

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