dieseldog69 said:
All the technical threads I did for LROi forum went as they were 3rd party only hosting of pictures, my build thread was useless as it was mostly written there as that was the forum I settled in first and when I moved on much of it was just copy and paste moving house type effort.

A lot of threads are useless now, and to make it worse, the guys that created those threads have moved on from Land Rovers and no longer venture into the boards to even notice that the threads have no pictures, I know I was a victim of popularity many times through the strong views my threads had and the images no longer being available through exceeding bandwidth and having to wait for the next month to show them all again.

Personally I think it was a two fold attack, one to make money from you if you were a business or serious hobby photographer and to get rid of the half a dozen photo Jo's that were taking up space on their own servers, either way, they are still in business so it didn't hurt them enough to collapse the company so potentially we were merely small fry in the world of 3rd party image hosting?

I always hadit in the back of my mind that one day they would do something like this but not quite so severe, maybe a limited free content but after the volume of free space had been used you had to sign up to a hosting plan, but the whole "choose your package if you ever want to see your pictures again" business model was a bitter pill to swallow.

After my initial apprehensions I thought that 3rd party hosting was the way forward after loosing memory cards and accidentally wiping them trying to "format" them in various cameras, 3rd party meant you could upload in bulk, wipe the card and shoot more pics and they were safe and usable on those systems, obviously they left it long enough (I used them for several years, a decade or so in fact) to get users hooked and with accounts with hundreds and thousands of images and then decided to start making money out of you.
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I feel your pain :) I guess I'm cynical enough to have kept all my photo's :confused:

Bl@@dy modern world is going to hell in a hand cart :mad::mad::mad:
 
Disco1BFG said:
:eek::eek::eek: Me and farceb@@k will never happen - just sayin :)

I see what our kids go through :eek::confused: - no way in hell.
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I stopped with it a couple of years now, it was good for keeping in touch with the girls I worked with on the stables as they could be away on the show somewhere and we could all keep in touch, I'm not in that world anymore and don't really need to keep in touch with them as we only really had work and the yard in common, now I'm here and on twitter, for the rest I would rather make friends I can drink a pint with and drive a lane from time to time than try to keep in touch with people that I really didn't like that much or barely knew only as a fleeting acquaintance.

I must admit I really didn't realise how dangerous farceb@@k was as a threat to relationships :eek: I've seen a few incidents of partners/spouses getting in touch with old flames or high school sweethearts, always seems to be the same MO, out of relationship, dwells on past, sees old flame on FB, gets in touch, innocent hi turns into ti77y & d1ck pix and then steamy romps in the back of a car having travelled sometimes hundreds of miles just for a bunk-up, leaves partner/spouse, 3 months later after the sex wore off it became the relationship they left behind & so the cycle repeats.

Anyhoo....
 
dieseldog69 said:
I stopped with it a couple of years now, it was good for keeping in touch with the girls I worked with on the stables as they could be away on the show somewhere and we could all keep in touch, I'm not in that world anymore and don't really need to keep in touch with them as we only really had work and the yard in common, now I'm here and on twitter, for the rest I would rather make friends I can drink a pint with and drive a lane from time to time than try to keep in touch with people that I really didn't like that much or barely knew only as a fleeting acquaintance.
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Real life works well for me too, and one of the reasons I stay on LZ is that a lot of the members are my real life friends too.

goonarmy said:
Think 3rd party posting was promoted as it meant forums didn't need all that much server space. Photpbucket hasn't gone yet.
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Site is still there, but after they stopped 3rd party hosting I deleted my accounts. Not having them owning the copyright to my pics if they won't do anything for me.
So the fix posted by landowner, above^^^^^^^^^^, will not bring back my pics on LZ, or anyone else who has deleted the accounts.
 
landowner said:
Don't know if this is any use but worth a try
If you're using Google Chrome, go to the three dots on the top right side of the screen and click them. A drop down should appear. Hover your mouse over "More Tools," and when the next drop down appears, click on extensions. Go to the link towards the bottom that says "Get more extensions." In the search box, type "Photobucket Fix," and hit enter. Click the install button and once it's done, you should be able to see photobucket pictures again.

For FireFox users, click on the three bars on the right side of the screen, then click on add ons. Click search for "photobucket hotlink" and click install. Same result.

Hope this helps
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that certainly works for me :). ta
 
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