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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 8, 2017 0:43:31 GMT -8
I'm sure most of you have noticed by now but Photobucket, the image hosting site that is commonly used for uploading images here, has decided to be a bit of an ass and now requires any account which has pictures linked to third party websites (like our own) to pay them a yearly extortion fee. Well needless to say that's very unlikely to happen so things will have to do a move.
For anyone interested, and if it's not obvious enough by Photobucket's wonderful placeholder, all images should still be safe. They just now cant be displayed through the standard img tag. If you want to post images on the site we recommend you stay away from Photobucket from now on and use sites like imgur or tinypic. There are many others so use what you trust and feel comfortable with.
We're not sure how long this will take so bear with us for the time being. Some features will be affected more than others so if changing your theme will likely help. As of right now though we're working out which are and aren't affected.
Finally we will not responsible for individual posts or accounts. If a member has been affected and wants to fix their images they will have to do so themselves. Editing the post will work like it always has, the image link will just need to be changed.
LuciferIX Matt
List of Unaffected Themes:
Advancerversary 2013 Advancerversary 2014 Clash of Colours Fandom Games Medieval Medieval 2 MLP April Fools PikaPals Purple April Starry Night Simple
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ZachaRicO
Junior Advancer
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Post by ZachaRicO on Jul 8, 2017 14:15:31 GMT -8
Thanks for keeping us in the loop. Even if it isn't optimal, at least I have the option to NOT stare at that stupid meter of scam. Could the rest of the themes on this site be affected, though?
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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 8, 2017 20:45:19 GMT -8
Thanks for keeping us in the loop. Even if it isn't optimal, at least I have the option to NOT stare at that stupid meter of scam. Could the rest of the themes on this site be affected, though? The various themes have been made by several different people and some of them used Photobucket and others didn't, so as stated the themes currently shown should be unaffected. And considering the uproar being made by Photobucket's change in policy, and their lack of notifications, it's unlikely other image hoisting sites will be following suit any time soon; so we shouldn't have many more issues once the images are moved.
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ZachaRicO
Junior Advancer
Time to go for a victory lap!
Posts: 70
Favorite Pokemon: Mewtwo
Mini-Profile Background: {"image":"","color":"A50303"}
Mini-Profile Name Color: ffffff
Mini-Profile Text Color: ffffff
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Post by ZachaRicO on Jul 9, 2017 17:16:57 GMT -8
Sweet. Thanks.
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Post by Manqoba on Jul 11, 2017 12:37:36 GMT -8
Are the affected themes gone forever?
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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 11, 2017 22:05:05 GMT -8
Manqoba - Nope, Gengar is fixing them now since most of the affected themes were on his Photobucket account. They'll come back up as he works on it. I just disabled the problem themes for the time being. As they are fixed they'll come back up as an option.
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Post by Manqoba on Jul 12, 2017 15:57:32 GMT -8
I don't know if this is related, but I seem to have lost my not so golden 50 badge for winning the Count or Spam game
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Post by Thanos on Jul 12, 2017 20:16:52 GMT -8
Manqoba - Nope, Gengar is fixing them now since most of the affected themes were on his Photobucket account. They'll come back up as he works on it. I just disabled the problem themes for the time being. As they are fixed they'll come back up as an option. That's good to know.
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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 12, 2017 21:29:48 GMT -8
I don't know if this is related, but I seem to have lost my not so golden 50 badge for winning the Count or Spam game fixed
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Post by Manqoba on Jul 13, 2017 6:32:18 GMT -8
I don't know if this is related, but I seem to have lost my not so golden 50 badge for winning the Count or Spam game fixed Thank you!
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ZachaRicO
Junior Advancer
Time to go for a victory lap!
Posts: 70
Favorite Pokemon: Mewtwo
Mini-Profile Background: {"image":"","color":"A50303"}
Mini-Profile Name Color: ffffff
Mini-Profile Text Color: ffffff
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Post by ZachaRicO on Jul 15, 2017 17:44:19 GMT -8
I noticed the Splatter theme is restored. Has the Photobucket issue been fully resolved?
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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 16, 2017 13:57:55 GMT -8
I noticed the Splatter theme is restored. Has the Photobucket issue been fully resolved? Most of the themes are fixed as well as the badges. Gengar is working on the last ones but those are likely not as popular as the ones already back up and running. As a whole though the Photobucket issue will continue since this all came about from their change of policy; though for us, outside of old posts that likely wont be fixed, the worst is definitely behind us. People will just start using other image hosting sites for new posts and things will go back to normal. So everyone give a nice big thanks once again to our resident ghost Gengar who not only made many of our themes but put a bit of a rush job on getting them back up.
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Post by Thanos on Jul 16, 2017 14:38:16 GMT -8
I noticed the Splatter theme is restored. Has the Photobucket issue been fully resolved? Most of the themes are fixed as well as the badges. Gengar is working on the last ones but those are likely not as popular as the ones already back up and running. As a whole though the Photobucket issue will continue since this all came about from their change of policy; though for us, outside of old posts that likely wont be fixed, the worst is definitely behind us. People will just start using other image hosting sites for new posts and things will go back to normal. So everyone give a nice big thanks once again to our resident ghost Gengar who not only made many of our themes but put a bit of a rush job on getting them back up. HOORAY!
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Post by Aquadrop on Jul 16, 2017 21:15:17 GMT -8
Gengar THANKS WE LOVE YOU FOR FIXING EVERYTHING SO QUICKLY! Also....... fak you photobucket.
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Post by Thanos on Jul 17, 2017 16:56:28 GMT -8
Wait, so everything's fixed? I'm using the Advancersary 2014 theme and it still has the shitty Photobucket image.
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