trouble on the horizon

[ICE]

Flickr is fixing to toss me to the curb. If I don't start paying them they plan on dumping my pictures.

 

[jar546]

I've been asking for years now that people just upload the photos as a file rather than provide a link that will eventually change or have an issue like this. It makes threads useless in many cases but not many want to listen and continue to post photo links. I wish I could just stop the photo upload option without causing confusion. It really screws up this site when links no longer work to photos.

 

[ICE]

Flickr may leave 1000 photos untouched. That limits the damage to less than 2000 lost pictures. The good news is that 99.9% of the soon to be lost photos are in just one thread (average day) in contractor talk. When it happens you can delete the thread.......Nobody will notice one missing thread. At 275,0000 views, it has run it’s course.

 

[north star]

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" When it happens you can delete the thread.......Nobody will notice one missing thread. At 275,0000 views, it has run it’s course. "

I strongly disagree sir !........That Thread has been an excellent source of education !
I believe that it continues to be an excellent source of education.......There are a lot
of people who come on to this Forum and just browse around looking.....Sometimes
looking at your photos helps to educate others.

Shame on Flickr !

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[jar546]

Flickr may leave 1000 photos untouched. That limits the damage to less than 2000 lost pictures. The good news is that 99.9% of the soon to be lost photos are in just one thread (average day) in contractor talk. When it happens you can delete the thread.......Nobody will notice one missing thread. At 275,0000 views, it has run it’s course.

Maybe you could spend the time to edit your posts and change the link to an upload before it is too late............

 

[ICE]

Maybe you could spend the time to edit your posts and change the link to an upload before it is too late............

I just did that with three pictures. I don't have a copy of a lot of the pictures that were lost when a computer fried. So the procedure is to drag a copy from here to my desktop and then delete the picture from the thread and then upload the picture from my desktop. It is easy to know if that's been done because a bar appears at the top of the picture when the cursor is in the picture frame.
01-08-2019 is the expiation date and I can't do that to 2,850 pictures that soon. The alternative is to pay Flickr for a year. So I did that. I am not so sure that I have the patience for this.

 

[ICE]

I have been following the procedure that I outlined above but I am not positive that I need to do that. I deleted a picture from Flickr for the reply #2967 on the 149th page at the Average day thread. A day later the picture is still available. If I click on the picture it takes me to Flickr but says that the link is bad......whereas before I deleted the picture at Flickr if I click on it I am taken to that picture at Flickr.

 

[jar546]

I have been following the procedure that I outlined above but I am not positive that I need to do that. I deleted a picture from Flickr for the reply #2967 on the 149th page at the Average day thread. A day later the picture is still available. If I click on the picture it takes me to Flickr but says that the link is bad......whereas before I deleted the picture at Flickr if I click on it I am taken to that picture at Flickr.

I think there are forces beyond what we know that are in play here. Did you sprinkle magic dust on your keyboard lately?

 

[steveray]

Did you sprinkle magic dust on your keyboard lately?

A little bit for Santa Claus, A little bit more for Santa Claus, A little bit more for Santa Claus.....