Thread: Something Weird Here

Nothing wrong, Dave - except that the link to the page you posted is broken.

This is the link you posted (I changed the first letter to an "X" because the forum will attempt to load a webpage. Change it to an "h")

Xttp://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/651/img5372j.jpg

Have you deleted it or your imageshack page?

Ron I haven't deleted anything. I no longer use ImageShack as it is no longer free, me being a tight arse.

The link you posted with the Xtpp, which I changed to htpp, took me to an ImageShack page which said "this image has been deleted.

So does that mean that every post I have with ImageShack photos in it won't show the picture?

If you have closed your Imageshack account, then all your links in all your posts to those pictures wont work.

When you add a pic to a thread, you are only actually linking to it, and not embedding it.

This is mainly due to the amount of server storage space that would be required to hold all the photos on this site.

Take the Funny Pics thread as an example. There are over 18,500 posts. If you allow 1 picture per post, at 2mb per pic, it is a HUGE amount of data.


Hope this helps, and I hope I have it right...

As I stated in my last post, I did not close, just stopped using it, due to them now charging a fee.

Is it possible that because I did not pay up that they closed my account?

Which means I will have hundreds of other pics in threads that have gone.

I have a similar problem, but in my case it was because the site where I had my pics was taken over by another company and then again by another one.

Because the address is now different, I have several posts where my images don't appear.

So does that mean that some one who goes to a lot of trouble taking pics and doing a tutorial on a project has wasted all his time if the image hoster decides to end it?

This sucks big time. There are many a project that I see and think I might do that down the track so I save a link. I might then find when I want it that it is not there.

Originally Posted by d2dave

So does that mean that some one who goes to a lot of trouble taking pics and doing a tutorial on a project has wasted all his time if the image hoster decides to end it?

More or less, yes.

Originally Posted by d2dave

This sucks big time. There are many a project that I see and think I might do that down the track so I save a link. I might then find when I want it that it is not there.

You could start up your own free image hosting service.

Originally Posted by d2dave

So does that mean that some one who goes to a lot of trouble taking pics and doing a tutorial on a project has wasted all his time if the image hoster decides to end it?

Which is the reason that I recommend any images which are important be uploaded to AULRO and not linked from another site.

The only disadvantage I can see from doing this is that only logged on forum members can see the uploaded images.