Picture attachments issues

[MarkM]

Ok we are all aware that currently there is a slight problem with the picture attachment feature on the forum.
I currently do not have information to share with you as to why this has happened or when it will be restored to full working order so in the meantime this thread has appeared.

"Crusade mode" If you wish to see AO continue it might be an idea to see what you can do for AO, lots of ideas were thrown around at the time TK retired but the Forum still costs money to host and the attachments increase this cost because of bandwidth etc.
To drop this cost and ensure that all your pics can be seen it would help you (as you can see them) and AO (for the drop in the hosting costs) to find an alternate place to host these pics "Crusade mode off"

Many ISP's provide you with free webspace when you use their service so many of you already have this space but just don't use it. If you are unfortunate enough to have an ISP that will charge you for webspace then....

You can get FREE accounts at the following

https://www.muchos.co.uk

https://www.jayloo.com

Now these two are "free" to a point one has a minimal cost per 8 week period, one has a cost if you go above a usage figure.

This is now where you guys come in I have listed two hosts. Now post away with your hosts....remember TOTALLY FREE is what we are looking for or as close to FREE as you can find.

**edit** It also might be a good thing for each user to go to their user control panel and select Attachments to see how much space they are currently using on AO...I didn't think I posted many pictures and found I had nearly 6 meg uploaded..they are now deleted as they were all on old threads and certainly not currently needed..take a look I think more than one or two of you are in for a shock!

[JoshK]

YAY!! I'm the first person to help cut down on AO's bandwidth problems

http://imageshack.us/

[Creative Mayhem]

WOOT!! Just deleted 8.81GIGS of pics from the last 3 years.

Now, if everyone cleaned up their pics, TK could save some money and come to AO Canada

[MonsterMag]

I am a mod for www.mypicgallery.com
Great host site. Free to

[luke]

**edit** It also might be a good thing for each user to go to their user control panel and select Attachments to see how much space they are currently using on AO...

How much would be concidered allot?

[MarkM]

How much would be concidered allot?

WOOT!! Just deleted 8.81GIGS of pics from the last 3 years.

Now, if everyone cleaned up their pics, TK could save some money and come to AO Canada

That would be a lot but when you consider that unless the picture is stupidly large what is an average size 30-300k? I often editted pics before I linked to them anyhow.
I don't think any one figure is to be regarded as a lot but if you are selling a marker and it was a six months, a year, two years ago it wouldn't matter how big that pic was you certainly don't still need it.
The same goes for many of the owned pics and similar.
Look at the movie trivia thread in 3 months or infact now as the answers once given the old picture as a question isn't needed, that is a prime example of un-needed pics, I will be fair and say that some pics in that thread where remotely hosted but certainly not all.
As Creative Mayhem has just found that he had 8.81 gigs worth but I bet if you had asked him before he looked his answer would have been less than 1 gig

[behemoth]

deleted 8MB

I know its not alot, but I'm just trying to do my civic duty

[BobTheCow]

YAY!! I'm the first person to help cut down on AO's bandwidth problems

http://imageshack.us/

That's the way to do it. Easy to upload single pictures, or you can create an account if you want. Link full pics, thumbnails, all sorts of great options. Fast and reliable, too. Yippee!!

My cpanel told me the following:

Attachment Statistics
You are currently using 3.90 MB to store 73 uploaded attachments.

Woo, 3 whole megs! Deleted anyway.

[MarkM]

Ok we have currently
8.81 gig
8mb
3mb

Now those numbers are dropping but think we have 24,297 members, ok not all are active but it all starts getting scary and it all quickly adds up and how many of those inactive members are sitting on god only knows AO server space.

Keep the links coming for pic hosting, as I am sure you are all aware AO also slows down from time to time this is all server loads and remotely hosted pics don't slow AO down.

[BD_Paintball]

i just deleted 7 pages of pics from my list. i dont remember how many mb's it was, but it was 7 pages.

[punkncat]

I just did some housecleaning....

I am actually stoked that the feature is there that allows you to go back and look through your old attachments. I had asked about that feature once and was told by who knows that there was no way to find just your old pics.....THANKS.

[MarkM]

I just did some housecleaning....

I am actually stoked that the feature is there that allows you to go back and look through your old attachments. I had asked about that feature once and was told by who knows that there was no way to find just your old pics.....THANKS.

I think the feature has always been there but since it where it is on the bottom of the control panel it is often missed. I only found it by accident about a year ago. I would have posted it was there if I had realised that some people hadn't known about it.
Oh want to share how many meg you were hosting

[AGDlover]

just deleted 3.96mb

[punkncat]

I think the feature has always been there but since it where it is on the bottom of the control panel it is often missed. I only found it by accident about a year ago. I would have posted it was there if I had realised that some people hadn't known about it.
Oh want to share how many meg you were hosting

Right at 5 meg......

[Lohman446]

I tried.. but had a lack of attachments to delete.. none there hmmm