Photobucket And Images

[Chris_Sav]

Photobucket have announced they are about to end their free image linking.

This means that any images on this forum which are linked to Photobucket storage will cease to display.

Should it happen then all of the forum board icons will cease to work and everything will look a right mess.

It is a major job to rehouse everything, as well as finding a home, so I will not make a start unless the worst comes to the worst. 


I have asked AEBBA about hosting the relatively small volume of data on the AEBBA site. Me hosting them could only be expected to a short term option at the age of 70.

[Chris_Sav]

Main part if the emergency appears over.

No reply from AEBBA thus far so had a look around for other options yesterday, discovered there was a little additional storage available to me under  the forum theme. Over fifty forum images and icons have been identified, transferred to that storage and links updated, not easy as all links could not just be copied from the new storage but had to have detail added as well for external use. There may be the odd one I have missed as references were in several different places.

Still under threat are any posts with Photobucket pictures in them. I will cherrypick the most historically important of those and transfer them to attachments.

[Chris_Sav]

Had the email this morning from Photobucket to say the barbilliards account is about to have linking terminated, looks like we acted just in time.

[Chris_Sav]

barbilliards.proboards.com/thread/13401/table-232b-aebba-1

Shows what every Photobucket image remaining on the forum has now been reduced to. That would have included every icon and image in the board menu structure and made a right mess.

Don't use free hosting sites!

[barbelman]

Ugh - well done on saving the vital ones Chris.  You just don't get owt for nowt any more....... 

[Chris_Sav]

Photobucket appear to have realised they shot themselves in the foot and lost most of their customers. They have restored direct linking of all images so any old photobucket links should now be restored 

[Chris]

Oh wow ... good news then xx