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If you used Photobucket... I may need to delete your post

Post by VinceAtReal4x4s »

Hey guys. Unfortunately an endless amount of forums have been ruined in some way by this awful photo hosting company. If you used photobucket to post your pics, and the lack of the pics now significantly affect the post, I may need to delete it unless you can edit it and upload the pics to replace the lost ones.

I'm referring to some posts that have a short statement with photos filling much of the rest of it. I don't see the value in these specific posts anymore unless you can fix them.

Please fix your posts if you can!

This forum has always supported uploading pics to the actual post. As long as they don't exceed 2.5MB, I can't see a reason to use a hosting site.
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Yup
Photobucket, Dropbox and others decided to change the rules after years and have screwed up literally millions of posts on all forums!
It just goes to show you what can happen to 'your' data or images when stored on someone else's (or some other companies) servers!
Huge mess and most historical information via photos is now lost forever!
Vince is right - always upload pics here vs hosting at a 3rd party site (this goes for any other forums you may belong too as well)
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Hi Vince,
I will take some time to look into this, please leave us some time to get around it...
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Post by VinceAtReal4x4s »

Thanks. I'm not going to do anything soon but wanted to make people aware of how badly that damn hosting site has screwed up forum sites.

If I could I'd remove the ability to use hosted pics altogether; it will just happen again.
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