Will be deleting COMMENTS with 'Dead Photo' links.....
Aug 28, 2017, 6:14 pm
#1
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Will be deleting COMMENTS with 'Dead Photo' links.....
Starting next week I'll be deleting posts that have expired photo links. The biggest offender has been Photobucket and their recent decision to start charging excessive fees for storing photos which has led to many people abandoning their PB account.
Hopefully this should clear out some of the clutter of posts where photos are no longer visible.
If your posts are affected, and you have a different source from where you can repost the photos, please feel free to do so in the next few days.
Hopefully this should clear out some of the clutter of posts where photos are no longer visible.
If your posts are affected, and you have a different source from where you can repost the photos, please feel free to do so in the next few days.
Aug 30, 2017, 5:59 pm
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I assume you mean you'll delete the posts, not the entire thread, correct? The title is somewhat misleading.
And what about where there's an ongoing discussion that just happens to have an included photo? Losing the entire post may make the thread flow nonsensical. Example - if in the Sensor Dust thread, someone posted an image of spots on their sensor, then went into great/valuable detail about how they fixed it, losing everything because of a bad link would lose a lot of valuable info. Can you just delete the image reference?
And what about where there's an ongoing discussion that just happens to have an included photo? Losing the entire post may make the thread flow nonsensical. Example - if in the Sensor Dust thread, someone posted an image of spots on their sensor, then went into great/valuable detail about how they fixed it, losing everything because of a bad link would lose a lot of valuable info. Can you just delete the image reference?
Aug 30, 2017, 6:03 pm
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I assume you mean you'll delete the posts, not the entire thread, correct? The title is somewhat misleading.
And what about where there's an ongoing discussion that just happens to have an included photo? Losing the entire post may make the thread flow nonsensical. Can you just delete the image reference?
And what about where there's an ongoing discussion that just happens to have an included photo? Losing the entire post may make the thread flow nonsensical. Can you just delete the image reference?
And yes, I won't delete the thread, just the posts. I've updated the title, sorry for the confusion.
Aug 31, 2017, 9:35 pm
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Correct, I've gone back to the first posts in the photo threads and there are a ton of dead links. I left the posts that have hyperlinks in their posts since most of those photos are still available.
