So are mine. I understand that's it to do with the percentage of your photos which are hotlinked to other sites. If like me, it's only a few (maybe 10% in my case), they don't seem to have enforced the new rules (yet). It looks like they've gone after the low-hanging fruit of accounts where the majority of pics are hotlinked externally.Minority wrote:Interesting, just checked and my pics are are still up, wonder why?
Incidentally, I haven't read anywhere that they are about to delete all those pics from their site, so I don't understand why I've seen people advising others to quickly download their pics while they still can. However, I agree it's a right PITA that they've done this - the site was already virtually unusable, with so many popups and popunders that it made you feel like you were on a dodgy Russian download site.
It's unreasonable to expect everyone to upload their forum pics to a new host, then relink all their posts, so I'm afraid that many valuable resources are gone for good
Thankfully I don't have anything on there that isn't already backed up to other sites, but if it was my only means of photo storage, I think I'd be slowly and methodically (no rush needed) downloading all my pics to a local drive. I can't see this situation ending in any way other than tears.
