Photbucket

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[QUOTE 4877874, member: 9609"]all my photos (until recently) on here were on photobucket, but @Shaun must have uploaded them to his own server ? which seemed a bit odd at the time but I suppose they won't vanish now?

@Shaun is there a way I can see all my photos together, or can I only do that by going back to the thread?[/QUOTE]

I think all the photos I've ever posted on here have been hosted by Photobucket too, so I was quite surprised and relieved they all still seem to be showing, I'm a total techie dufus though so have no idea if Shaun has done any tech wizardry to save us, big thanks if he has!

Was it only those that used Photobucket for ebay and forums and nothing else that were held to ransom? I've got other pics on there I've not posted anywhere online, I thought maybe that's how I'd 'got away' with it. I've been on it for years, but it has been getting steadily worse, the pops up have got to plague proportions, very aggressive and insistent reminders to upgrade to a paid account, its been regularly crashing while uploading pics, and just becoming a nightmare user experience in general. I only have the free version and that is not worth it anymore, I would'nt pay those clowns for a service. The recent cloak and dagger changing of T & C's and ransom bomb (even though it has'nt effected me) was the final act that convinced me I don't want to have anything to do with this company, free or otherwise. I've moved a pile of my pics over to Imgur, which seems easy to use to share links for posting on interwebs forums, which is all I want it for to be honest, and when I'm done I'll be deleting my Photobucket account. It looks like loads of others are also jumping ship, and Ransomgate looks like one of the biggest company PR own goals in history.

 

[Shaun]

[QUOTE 4877874, member: 9609"]all my photos (until recently) on here were on photobucket, but @Shaun must have uploaded them to his own server ? which seemed a bit odd at the time but I suppose they won't vanish now?[/QUOTE]
When I moved CC over to HTTPS / SSL in January I needed to ensure that all content on each page was delivered from a secure source otherwise the green padlock wouldn't display in the browser. Any images that had been uploaded directly would be fine because they were already served from the CC server via https. However, most of the remotely hosted images weren't, so we initially had lots of "broken" pages. To get around this I installed an add-on that checked through all the historical images and downloaded a copy for any that were not using https and turned them into CC attachments. This ensured the images were served locally from the CC server and that we had them available regardless of what happened at the source / service end that they were originally linked from (a log is kept of the original source URL so we have a backwards trace). A separate add-on ensured that the process continued for new image posts after we'd finished the SSL move.

[QUOTE 4877874, member: 9609"]@Shaun is there a way I can see all my photos together, or can I only do that by going back to the thread?[/QUOTE]
You can only do it by going back to the threads, sorry.

Cheers,
Shaun