Photobucket disaster being solved on other Forums

kidcongo

kidcongo

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Hey all,

A few other forums I belong to have implemented a "tool" that automatically fixed all the broken photobucket links. It's worked like a charm. It's been great to see all the old threads come back to life after Photobucket did it's nasty deed last month.

Is there any chance such a tool/fix is in the works for Bladeforums? It would be appreciated if it was.

I happen to own a Tacoma, and Tacoma World was the first forum I saw where 100% of the broken, unviewable Photobucket links are now back, in full res. With so many great photo-heavy threads on Bladeforums that are now trashed, I hope we see the same thing happen here if possible.
 
This would be AWESOME!!!!

~Chip
 
Perhaps a mod will move this over to tech to get feedback. Awesome indeed if it is possible!
 
This was discussed in an earlier thread. Creating a script or piece of code to replace the links for photobucket images.
While I think it's possible to do, I also think that it's a short term solution to a long term problem. PB will wise up to it and fix it in some way shape or form.
Not sure there isn't some legal ramifications to it either. Fix the links yourself by the hack and still use PB to host images for 3rd party may give PB the right to charge you their extortion fee.
Of course, I am no legal expert, but I would just move on..I have a bunch of photos I need to move to another host- Mostly tutorial threads in the CRK forum..The rest, I am going to let die in old threads.
 
I've been working through a few of my threads a a little at a time. I'll never be able to recover them all, but I'm focusing on threads like my Mnandi documentary, things like that. I'm also working my way through Anticipation Thread a little.
 
Hmmm, I think what they did in Tacoma World was use a tool that actually went and found the photbucket images downloaded them, and re-uploaded them to the native TW server. I don't think they are links anymore. That site has literally millions of photos lodged in how-to threads and build threads. They are all back up. I'm not a techy type, so I'm not sure of exactly what was done, but it required nothing from me and saved a lot of old threads that people still referenced. There was many people rejoicing about that.
 
kidcongo said:
Hmmm, I think what they did in Tacoma World was use a tool that actually went and found the photbucket images downloaded them, and re-uploaded them to the native TW server. I don't think they are links anymore. That site has literally millions of photos lodged in how-to threads and build threads. They are all back up. I'm not a techy type, so I'm not sure of exactly what was done, but it required nothing from me and saved a lot of old threads that people still referenced. There was many people rejoicing about that.
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Perhaps you could ask one of the mods over there what exactly they did to fix the pics?

~Chip
 
WValtakis said:
Perhaps you could ask one of the mods over there what exactly they did to fix the pics?

~Chip
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This is all the TW mods are saying:

"Glad it's working for you. You guys can continue exactly as you were doing. If our system detects that you embedded a Photobucket pic, it'll automatically attach it to the post within a few seconds. Only hiccup is that your signatures containing Photobucket embeds will have to be changed manually to embed from a different source"
 
kidcongo said:
Hmmm, I think what they did in Tacoma World was use a tool that actually went and found the photbucket images downloaded them, and re-uploaded them to the native TW server. I don't think they are links anymore. That site has literally millions of photos lodged in how-to threads and build threads. They are all back up. I'm not a techy type, so I'm not sure of exactly what was done, but it required nothing from me and saved a lot of old threads that people still referenced. There was many people rejoicing about that.
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That's a LOT of pics for one site to host themselves!
 
Lone_Wolfe said:
That's a LOT of pics for one site to host themselves!
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Maybe millions is an exaggeration, but TW is an extremely popular site, and it is photo-heavy. It's not uncommon for photo threads there to get hundreds of replys. Whatever they did worked. Took a day to "churn" through all the threads, but then "voila". I was grateful, mostly for the old info posted by others. My personal contributions there were minimal.
 
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