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Never used 3rd party hosting and I'm afraid that I was one of those that took the time to resize pics using Irfanview and saved them to RB itself.
And a memory stick
A big one.
And a memory stick
A big one.
legrandefromage":2q8flb6c said:Never used 3rd party hosting and I'm afraid that I was one of those that took the time to resize pics using Irfanview and saved them to RB itself.
And a memory stick
A big one.
danson67":2rrgmg81 said:Reply from Drew at PB (pro@photobucket.com) regarding Forum owner subscription this evening:
"Hello Dan,
Unfortunately, we do not have this kind of subscription model that you are describing. All the subscription plans we have right now are just for individual users. I have forwarded this to our team to see if this is something Photobucket will need to consider adding in the future.
In the past couple of months, our management team has temporarily restored all the photos that have been previously restricted for 3rd Party hosting. At this time, we do not have a time frame when these images will be restricted again, however, we will notify our users ahead of time when these changes are about to happen.
We have also made our subscription plans more affordable, adding monthly payment options for our users who cannot afford to subscribe annually. We hope that this will provide our users with better hosting options."
So the quicker we hoover up the images and archive them locally the better.
All the best,
I have run these scripts on 2 forums, downloading about 20,000 and 15,000 image files. The scripts create local image files which are named as the md5 of the original url, this allows easy redirection of links without needing extra database accesses at run-time. On my 2 forums, the local images are now being served with a modified version of the camoimageproxy extension. I intend to upload that after it is tidied up. The database tables created by these scripts would however allow several other schemes for serving or redirecting the forum image links...
Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:24 pm
I have updated the scripts on github, the extraction script now catalogues and downloads all external image files, not just photobucket. The download script now does not follow redirects, and does not save very small files (which are usually failure notices). There are also a couple of bug fixes.