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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 2, 2019 21:03:29 GMT -5
Well, looks like Photobucket is trying to squeeze their users for even more money. Thy have reduced the amount of space that users can have, and if you go over it, they trash your photos with their watermark. The bad news for us is that our founder Grumpy put a lot of images and wallpaper on PB, and I don't have the login info to recover the images, so we'll have to deal with this until I come up with alternative images and host them someplace that isn't going to suddenly get greedy once they think they have you over a barrel.
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Post by 321 treeclimber on Jul 2, 2019 22:08:23 GMT -5
Amazing the things people will do to other people.
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Post by cbrown on Jul 3, 2019 14:27:33 GMT -5
I figured they would have learned from the mass migration away from Photobucket. Guess not.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 3, 2019 20:46:43 GMT -5
Well, looks like Photobucket is trying to squeeze their users for even more money. Thy have reduced the amount of space that users can have, and if you go over it, they trash your photos with their watermark. The bad news for us is that our founder Grumpy put a lot of images and wallpaper on PB, and I don't have the login info to recover the images, so we'll have to deal with this until I come up with alternative images and host them someplace that isn't going to suddenly get greedy once they think they have you over a barrel. I have plenty of space on my shadowstorm.com server to store the default images. The linux command "wget" can spider grumpy.proboards.com and pull some of the images off of photobucket.com. Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 4, 2019 12:13:10 GMT -5
Well, looks like Photobucket is trying to squeeze their users for even more money. Thy have reduced the amount of space that users can have, and if you go over it, they trash your photos with their watermark. The bad news for us is that our founder Grumpy put a lot of images and wallpaper on PB, and I don't have the login info to recover the images, so we'll have to deal with this until I come up with alternative images and host them someplace that isn't going to suddenly get greedy once they think they have you over a barrel. I have plenty of space on my shadowstorm.com server to store the default images. The linux command "wget" can spider grumpy.proboards.com and pull some of the images off of photobucket.com. Night Ranger If you want to try that, be my guest. If it works, forum life will be good again. |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 4, 2019 14:17:33 GMT -5
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 4, 2019 18:32:05 GMT -5
I think I may know how to remove the watermark from the remaining images. Working on it. Night Ranger |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 4, 2019 19:44:12 GMT -5
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Post by 321 treeclimber on Jul 4, 2019 20:38:31 GMT -5
That's great!
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 4, 2019 21:38:12 GMT -5
Wow! That's looking pretty good Mike! Thanks for doing that. Now I just have to dig into the forum code and point it to your site rather than PB and we should be gold. Are these all there are or are there more to get? |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 4, 2019 22:14:54 GMT -5
Wow! That's looking pretty good Mike! Thanks for doing that. Now I just have to dig into the forum code and point it to your site rather than PB and we should be gold. Are these all there are or are there more to get? Those are the images that wget found when I told it to spider the web site. I told it to only search for common image file extensions (jpg,gif,etc) and only pull images from the grumpy.proboard.com and photobucket.com domain names. Once you change the code you should be able to see any images still on PhotoBucket by the visible watermark. Let me know what those are, and I'll see if I can trick Photobucket.com into giving those up without the watermark. Also see the message I sent you on Facebook. Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 4, 2019 23:01:23 GMT -5
Wow! That's looking pretty good Mike! Thanks for doing that. Now I just have to dig into the forum code and point it to your site rather than PB and we should be gold. Are these all there are or are there more to get? Those are the images that wget found when I told it to spider the web site. I told it to only search for common image file extensions (jpg,gif,etc) and only pull images from the grumpy.proboard.com and photobucket.com domain names. Once you change the code you should be able to see any images still on PhotoBucket by the visible watermark. Let me know what those are, and I'll see if I can trick Photobucket.com into giving those up without the watermark. Also see the message I sent you on Facebook. Night Ranger I made a bunch of changes and got rid of a lot of the PB nonsense. I'll dig into it more tomorrow. I think there may be more images, but they might not be all that important. I'll let you know. |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 5, 2019 6:28:36 GMT -5
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 5, 2019 15:08:24 GMT -5
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 5, 2019 15:50:57 GMT -5
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Post by 321 treeclimber on Jul 5, 2019 16:30:30 GMT -5
The forum looks great! 321
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 5, 2019 17:46:55 GMT -5
Check my previous reply. I added them. Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 5, 2019 21:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 5, 2019 21:40:03 GMT -5
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 6, 2019 10:07:45 GMT -5
And yet another: i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/GRUMPY8220/get.jpg i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/GRUMPY8220/0003.gif Proboards is tough to navigate through all of their customizations. I'm still figuring out where some of this stuff is hidden. |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 6, 2019 13:41:13 GMT -5
And yet another: i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/GRUMPY8220/get.jpg i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/GRUMPY8220/0003.gif Proboards is tough to navigate through all of their customizations. I'm still figuring out where some of this stuff is hidden. I uploaded them; grumpy.shadowstorm.com/get.jpggrumpy.shadowstorm.com/0003.gifNight Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 6, 2019 22:41:16 GMT -5
Well, looks like I have been able to rid the forum of Photobucket and their evil scheme to watermark all of the forum's images. I think I found them all and thanks once again to Night Ranger for graciously offering to host the forums stock images. If anyone sees an image with a photobucket watermark on it, bring it to my attention and it will be taken care of.
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Post by 321 treeclimber on Jul 7, 2019 5:10:57 GMT -5
Bravo. Forum looks great.
321
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Post by BBB on Jul 13, 2019 17:40:25 GMT -5
Super thanks for your time.
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