I've been going through some old posts as part of digging efforts; I noticed many of the image files add to older posts appear broken.
If there's a way to restore these, it might be useful!
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P fan #1
Joined: May '10
Posts: 512Posted 2 years ago #As far as I remember we've always had a certain amount of issues when it comes to posting images on here? The main problem, especially with older posts, appears to be that we all upload(ed) our files to a variety of different external image hosts or link them directly from other websites (i.e. discogs). Effectively this means there's no way to "back up" or "restore" most pics once they disappear for whatever reason when the respective sites go down or URLs change.
Sometimes even newly uploaded images won't be visible to folks in certain locations (no idea why, but it happens), sometimes people muck up the embedding code or the image host simply won't supply the file through the forum. There seem to be loads of things that can potentially go wrong...
I suppose one way to try and work around this would be if we all agreed on a common, reliable host that works for everyone and doesn't run the risk of going under anytime soon.
Another option might be to upload files directly to the forum server, but this would most likely have a massive impact on Po's bandwith usage and end up costing a pretty penny. (Imagine just one of us submitting a 100kb pic, which might not seem particularly big, but would generate megabytes worth of traffic as soon as a mere dozen folks browsing the site "downloaded" it...)One piece of advice I can give you is to try and see if you might be able to follow any dead image links you encounter back to the source/their host by right clicking on them and using the "copy image address/url"-function of your browser. This might not have a high probability of success, but occasionally it will work... Hope the above explanations help at least a little.
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P fan #1
Joined: Oct '08
Posts: 3,255Posted 2 years ago #Anything original content that I've thrown up should still be there (I store it in a hidden folder on the lyrics website and post from there), but let me know if you see anything I've posted that's broken, and I'll bring it back!
Also, make sure you see YoYoPo's tumblr for some of the older pics!
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