CGTalk Server Rollback

#17

jero,

That’s completely backward reasoning.

How about resolving the problem that’s interrupting an EXCELLENT service instead of getting rid of the service to solve the problem!. What you are saying is like curing the disease by killing the patient! I for one think it would be a huge loss to this website in discontinuing the attachment service. It would still be cool, but not AS cool anymore. There are tons of forums where you can just read info and link to images (a pain in my opinion).

It’s so nice to read and see what people are talking about right there.

I think if they took it away it would be one of those things the people didn’t realize they appreciated so much until after it was gone and regret it.

Having viewable attachements directly as part of the forum experience is one of the features that rounds off and makes this forum so good! Removing image attachments from an awesome forum like this would be analogous to taking an image of brlilliant color and desaturating it, well, like this! (Please NOOOOOOO!)

#18

Originally posted by ambient-whisper
too bad:( cuz a very good thread was lost :frowning: ( the worst comment thread :frowning: ( unless its hidden somewhere i cant find :slight_smile:

Yeah I’m missing that thread allready! All those excelllent anecdotes down the tube

#19

I’m in agreement with jeroentje (did I spell that right without looking?) here, but I think a good intermediate step would be just asking people to please host their own pics if possible. (I am now trying to remember if that is done somewhere already…) I used to attach images even though I could host them myself just because it was quicker and easier, but it wasn’t a problem for me to change. I just hadn’t thought about it. There might be a significant number of people in a similar situation, in which case maybe that could really make a difference. :wavey:

#20

Could anything be done to save the Worst Comments Ever thread? This was probably the greatest CGTalk thread of all time.

#21

Originally posted by Aaron Moore
If the image tag worked people could use my uploader for files.
Oh, it works. It just won’t show you anything unless you’re logged in.

regards, Paul

#22

You can still see images directly in a post that have been loaded onto another site and are included using (img) tags.

In fact it’s better this way for me, i can simply cahnge the image as and when i want on my own site which is nice and fast. I can put up images much larger or at much higher quality than I would be able to using attachments on CGTalk… and my server will give ma a nice set of stats on the images too which is a nice bonus.

here’s one now… (held on my webspace)

largerrobot.jpg1046x565

and another cool thing is you can link in more than one image per pos this way, though i wont do that here as it’s a pain for people viewing the page, but it’s good when you’re doing WIP’s.

#23

Originally posted by odubtaig
[B]Oh, it works. It just won’t show you anything unless you’re logged in.

regards, Paul [/B]

Paul it simply replace it with a link see below (this originally had the img tags)

so the problem is with the parser or vbcode or whatever they call it…

i bet its an easy thing to fix…

#24

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:stuck_out_tongue:

#25

not all hosts allow file linking

#26

Originally posted by Aaron Moore
not all hosts allow file linking

doteasy.com does…and I have had no problems with them…

:slight_smile:

#27

I think everyone has gotten really bumbed because of all this. Our greatest thread gone, no more attatchments… Could put a dark cloud over CGtalk… :frowning: I thought the server problems were fixed with the new server. Everything seemed to be running well, and fast. Then this…

#28

Originally posted by ZaonDude
[B]The topic of attachments will soon be moot.

Version 3.0 of vbulletin (in late beta testing now) will solve this issue entirely:

Attachments will actually be uploaded FTP to a folder and NOT encoded in the database.

That way, the database will consist only of text and will be a considerably smaller file size to backup regularly and more likely to maintain integrity.

Individual attachments (sitting as individual files in an FTP directory) can be backed up less frequently this way. [/B]

Sounds promising.
Lets hope for a final release soon. :slight_smile:

#29

Originally posted by mdme_sadie
[B]You can still see images directly in a post that have been loaded onto another site and are included using (img) tags.

In fact it’s better this way for me, i can simply cahnge the image as and when i want on my own site which is nice and fast. I can put up images much larger or at much higher quality than I would be able to using attachments on CGTalk… and my server will give ma a nice set of stats on the images too which is a nice bonus.

here’s one now… (held on my webspace)

http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/samples/jpg/largerrobot.jpg

and another cool thing is you can link in more than one image per pos this way, though i wont do that here as it’s a pain for people viewing the page, but it’s good when you’re doing WIP’s. [/B]

not everyone has a webspace to host their images on, or a large amount of space, i only get 10mb from my provider and thats DEFINATLY not enough…

#30

Gah! Why does this always happen a day after I write a frikkin essay in reply to a tech question and before the person I was replying to had a chance to read it :hmm:

#31

i use netfirms.com for hosting my images…

its for free and you get 25 mb of web space, 1gig of transfer a month as well as ftp upload to your site which is a big plus for me.

only downside i see is the max of 50mb transfer for one day, which shouldnt happen too often though.

#32

I use www.lycos.co.uk
50MB web-space, unlimitted transfer etc., FTP… and I can link all the stuff to my own website aswell as to cgtalk.com
And it’s all directly visible on the board.
(Thanks for the tip last summer Joril :slight_smile: )

#33

if you people notice the most populated forum is the gallery.

how about making a small thumbnail for every image attachment? and an extra click for the full size?

not much of a techy guy ; not sure if this would cut the bandwidth traffic, but with this the crappy ones wouldn’t be downloaded

#34

I use my own hosting company server that houses my website.

Cybernautic Design (and hosting)

#35

I like Bored Alien’s suggestion best. If you can link to your pics easily, do that. If not, then keep on posting them directly in the forum. Seems the most diplomatic way to me, and most people on this forum are responsible enough to do what’s best, I reckon.

#36

feck, lost me sig too…:rolleyes: :smiley: