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Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: banquo Date: July 15, 2017, 4:30 pm
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Sorry to say, but Photobucket, in their infinite wisdom, and no
doubt motivated by the greed with which the modern day is
characterised, have, without warning, stopped allowing 3rd Party
hosting, without payment of a usurious fee of $400/year.
Effectively, that means that pretty much every forum including
this one, has lost most of its photos, and the resources of
technical and social information are no longer available. Had
the charge been something sensible, it's likely that most or
many would have stumped up to maintain their links to existing
forums, but at $400, my guess is that most will just walk away.
I'm certainly not paying it.
No doubt there are other providers out there, but you have to
wonder how long it will be before they too follow the same path,
and it's a big ask for people to transfer thousands of pix to
another provider, and more importantly, update the thousands of
links to forum posts that would be extremely difficult to
locate, only to have the same thing happen again.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the forum has been
falling on hard times anyway, with little traffic. and now that
most of the photos have gone too, it's hard to imagine why
anyone would want to keep on visiting and posting. I'll let it
ride for now, but this may be the end of the road. Thanks for
that Photobucket. May you rot in Hell.
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Re: Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: Shedges Date: July 16, 2017, 1:59 am
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Let's hope something comes up but even if it doesn't I hope you
felel you can continue as its a great resource for the NF owner.
Perhaps each post can store their own photo and post a link to
avoid these costs to you.
Anyway, i for one think the site is great and hope it continues.
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Re: Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: banquo Date: July 16, 2017, 3:25 am
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Cheers Shedges; problem is, it's not just me; anyone who has
posted pix via Photobucket would be in the same position. It's
not so bad on here, as we have relatively few members, but there
are forums with thousands of members and millions of posts, and
all the pix have disappeared where they were hosted by
Photobucket. It's legalised ransomware. Pay your 400 bucks or
lose your files (OK, you don't actually lose them, but they
disappear on every site from forums to eBay).
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Re: Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: KenJ Date: July 16, 2017, 4:56 am
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Sorry to read your post Jake. It was finding this forum that
helped me locate my NF, in fact being able to buy Paul Friday's
well travelled Nuovo Falcone, which I am glad to say is still
going strong. This forum has been a mine of information and in
its early days I contributed posts charting my experiences,
while setting up the timing and carb to cope with the extra
power, due to the special modified cylinder head that came with
the bike.
Regarding Photobucket, I have used it to post pics on other
forums (I have a fieldsports blog) and found it difficult to
upload images, in comparison to Imgur, much favoured by other
large forums like Reddit. Since using Photobucket, I have been
bombarded by their ads and switched back to Imgur, which is
still a free photo site.
Unfortunately, since the rise of Facebook, Twitter, etc, forums
in general have suffered, an example being a fly fishing forum,
which five years ago had an active live community of many
anglers, with up to twenty pages of comments each season, but
has only attracted two pages this season, most of them mine.
I have to admit that I have not posted on here for some time,
tending to dip into the Facebook page, that has a growing
international flavour, which is also down to you Jake.
My own blog has a worldwide following and a continuing software
problem caused the site to be down more times than it was online
recently, with the loss of many returning visitors. It could
have cost a lot of money to fix, but with a software developer
son, I got a free pass and the numbers are growing again. As the
owner of the site, you feel personally responsible for anything
that goes wrong, but can only do what you can personally afford.
As a text only forum, this is still the go to NF site and can
only suggest you encourage the use of Imgur in the future.
Regards, Ken
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Re: Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: banquo Date: July 16, 2017, 2:27 pm
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Thanks for those words of en couragement Ken; it's just so
frustrating to see so much work from so many people trashed by
corporate greed. There's no such thing as a free lunch, but if
they had offered something affordable, and treated their
customers with a bit of respect, I suspect they would have come
out ahead. I'd consider switching to another host, but you have
to wonder how long it would be before the same scenario
reappeared. I had the same with Sony's Imagestation which was
the platform of choice for a few years, before PB took over.
Anyway, onwards and upwards. Facebook has been a killer for
forums for sure; it's really good at the immediate, but
completely useless for reference purposes. There are times that
you know you've seen a post for something important, but
locating it is near impossible. I think of it as an infinitely
long toilet roll continually passing by your screen..... ::)
Obviously, there's no intention to ditch the site, but it's been
seriously emasculated by the loss of pix.
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Re: Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: OldeGoat Date: July 17, 2017, 2:59 am
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Good morning one and all. It's good to read that you intend to
retain the site, Jake, despite being pupped upon by PB. as Ken
says, this site is the point of reference for all of us who have
an "unusual " taste in bikes!
I do venture on to Facebook occasionally, but rarely post on
there. Who would be interested in what I get up to?
This site is a regular port of call for me, even if there's
nothing new on when I visit, but I'll keep visiting and
refreshing my knowledge of the beast at the very least. I now
wonder if I should have bought the militaire version as opposed
to the Civile, but I couldn't resist that exposed flywheel!
Must admit I'm tempted to turn a radius on it as I think it
would look better, but then I'd have to either paint it or get
it rechromed. Decisions, decisions!
The other option is to fit the covers I've bought, but then I
have to decide whether or not to machine it so the flywheel is
still visible to some extent. Good fun, ain't it?
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Re: Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: banquo Date: July 17, 2017, 2:35 pm
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Painting's not an issue. Mine was raw and rusty steel, so needed
a (rough) coat of paint anyway when exposed. I'd also like a
radius, and face up the outer face, but being me will never get
around to it!
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Re: Photobucket is gone (effectively)
By: cloggy Date: July 18, 2017, 8:58 am
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Facebook is pretty useless for info though on my website I link
to it store more photos of my clogs. I've found this forum
greatly helpful. it may have prevented expensive engine damage.
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