Fixed: Issues with posting pictures
Hello,
For the past day or so, I noticed that I'm having trouble trying to load pictures onto the site. Sorry if this has already been brought up and being addressed, but I just wanted to make sure this wasn't just me.
Thanks,
Jim
Discussion
Yeah, I found a slew of images that never loaded from AbbyNormal in his reply to his own post, even after refreshing the site.
I have experienced when right-clicking and saving from a Google search, the format wasn't recognised by this site. Also, downloading on my mobile an image from Reddit doesn't work at all sharing here. I would suggest instead using a screen capture function, that's a workaround I've found at least when using Google. Now, just before publishing this reply I tried several random image saving instances and what I'm seeing is PNG and JPEG formats, that has changed from when I had difficulties
Even pictures that I already posted are no longer viewable...
Indeed it looks like we've reached the file limit on the server. I'm away for work next week so I won't have access to things like usual but I'll see what I can clear out before then. There's 15+ years worth of uploaded photos here...many thousands of files.
On that note, I might please ask that once things open back up again that we be mindful of uploading only photos relevant to racing, customs, tracks, etc...and leaving the personal photos to email only. I know it's easy to treat PMs like email to share photos of family, homes, pets, etc but those all take up space too.
I'm happy to offer free image hosting but as things fill up, I might not be able to do that and we'll take a step back to 2010 where people had to use PhotoBucket and other services to host photos and post here. It was a real pain to use and also lent itself to having photos magically disappear as accounts got deactivated.
Anyway...I'll do my best to cleanup but me thinks it won't last very long.
- Thanks Redline for the update. This is a great site, even though I've only been here a few weeks I think not only the site is good but there are some good people here as well. Thank you for setting this up, it's been a great resource for me. — Sunshine_City_Garage
- Thanks, glad you're enjoying your experience here. It's not the most "modern" website but its got a decade's worth of great racing insight and builds. — redlinederby
Quick update that this should be fixed...at least for a while.
Some photos may start magically appearing if they were already uploaded prior to the quota getting hit.
There are probably many cases where you'll need to re-upload photos. If there are any photos in your album that are not showing (the blurry car), you should delete them.
- Thanks for your hosting work things I’m gonna try to reduce. The photo load are only putting up one photo of any car and also I’m gonna start linking to short videos on YouTube if I wanna show something off in particular. I would also venture to guess that if funds are needed for bigger hard drives, more hard drives or a different server. This community would probably come together with some decent funds if needed. — AbbyNormal
It's not just you.