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Originally Posted by EB#
It is interesting to consider what would happen if Facebook suddenly introduced a membership fee of some kind....
Maybe that's been their plan all along?
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It's simple really from a business model perspective. If the ad revenue is sufficient then they can retain their present model of 'free to users' unless they get greedy.
The problem for large operations like those two is that in the current climate of falling on-line ad revenues they are probably starting to see an impact to their bottom line.
We're a small case in point. We only run Google ads for unregistered users viewing the forum and the volume of those has remained pretty static for the last 5-10 years as have the ad impression total counts. At the peak for Google ads (2011-14), this was generating 4 times the revenue it does now or, in other words, there has been a 75% drop in the impression rate during that time.
Makes no real difference to us with our two parts of not many impressions but for a facetwit or photoracket and their millions of impressions a day, I'd hate to think what impact that has had.
Doesn't excuse the approach taken.
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Originally Posted by Pepscobra
Hi Russ,
I'd like to salvage my current Project Car build thread and would like to take up this offer. What is the process please and where do I save the files?
Thanks.
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We are still sorting that out. You can upload them to the AFF gallery for now which has a (current) user limit of 500 Mb and a maximum file size of 500 kb per image.
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Originally Posted by EB#
After checking it out on PB, this doesn't seem to be the case for my photos... Perhaps accounts differ from one to the other in some fashion?
In my case:
- All jpeg files that I have uploaded to PB have retained the original xxx.jpg file name
- When I downloaded copies of the lot just recently, they also retained the original names.
- The jpeg file name appears to be the same in each direct link as well, apart from jpeg file names that include a space.
In these cases, the space is replaced with the characters '%20',
Eg. ... i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd344/sneak880/General%20Stuff/white%20AU.jpg
Note that the space in the album name is also replaced with the '%20' characters.
In the case of a prospective upload to the AFF server, a batch editing procedure for image links may need to decypher
whatever appears after the final slash in the direct link line. If the file names don't quite match exactly due to some added junk
characters from PB? This may not be possible? Or, in my case, the AFF image link line could simply use the same '%20' character
for a 'space' without editing the final element in the link?
Given that the jpeg file names are recognisable, I would consider doing the link edits myself for my build threads if the AFF image server
gets up and running and I can access an edit function to my own threads for a period of time. My main build thread is
only 18 pages, so it's doable in a 'manual edit' type fashion. A different task however for those with a thread of 50 or 100 pages!
Images (hosted by PB) that I have posted here and there on AFF, in all sorts of areas on the forum could not really be tracked
and links replaced manually. Perhaps Russ and the AFF crew has a robot method for this type of editing, forum wide?
That task is a mountain indeed, but then computers are fast with the right driver.
In regards to new image hosting options, I am only considering AFF at this stage. The prospect of moving to another US based host
service seems just too unreliable.
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The %20 method for spaces is globally used and it's no different in the back end of the forum. What I am hoping is that we can just replace the photoracket part of the URL with the relevant URL from alternate storage or AFF storage on a global basis per user as editing threads is not a function that can be provided with that level of granularity for individuals and we don't want to open up whole sub forums for any user to edit.
Cheers
Russ