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efrench:
It could be they are only targeting people running ad blockers. I checked several of my older posts and the images were showing and I could view them on photobucket (after waiting for all their ads to load).
vtsteam:
I run ad blockers, and so far all my photos are still up. But I'm taking measures to get off PB anyway. Downloaded most of my albums already.
gerritv:
You could of course also get your own domain name, find an affordable web host and host the photos yourself. Lots of benefits including not having email address tied to a vendor. Gives you freedom to shop for affordable internet as well.
I host all my stuff in Ontario with a .ca domain name. Gives me some distance from the DMCA and its ilk as well as intrusive packet inspection etc. My ISP rents wire from a local cable company so I don't get gouged on that either.
But as Awemason says, best option is to resize your photos and host them on the forum. There is nothing more hateful than finding great posts/information but the photo links are dead. Yes it is 'nice' to have the photos interleaved with the post but not worth the risk of dead links.
Gerrit
DMIOM:
--- Quote from: Pete W. on June 30, 2017, 01:55:03 PM ---.....In recent posts, I have embedded my photos in the post rather than linking to them on the Photobucket site but that costs Mad Modders' server storage capacity.......
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Folks,
I'm writing this from my own personal perspective and in no way on behalf of our hosts, Eric and Victoria - but it is prompted by my regard for what they keep running for us (with contributions from some viewers).
Please remember :
1/ It costs to host the forum and images take much more space than text; if you keep images down to the generally acceptable 800 x 600 it will be less space.
2/ Would like to encourage those who can to make a donation towards the costs Eric & Victoria incur running MadModders.
Dave (IOM)
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
Thank you to all who have responded, I'm staggered to see how many posts have been added overnight!
Steve, when I logged on to Photobucket yesterday it said I was at 2% capacity (that's for the free grade of membership) and I've always resized my photos to 640 x 480 before uploading them to PB. I've never posted videos.
As I said in my opening post, Photobucket have never sent me any messages concerning my running an ad blocker.
I haven't checked but how far in the past does the Mad Modders site permit amendments to historic posts?
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