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Sorry, once again having Image Site Hosting Service Issues!

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1) No matter, I don't like your Posts anyway
2) I am so sorry that happened to your Posts, I hope your new image service is reliable this time
3) Sometimes 'Murphy's Law' applies Laurie, it happens to all of us at times, sorry :(
4) I hope you are able to replace your images soon, they make your Posts even better!
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MY IMAGE HOSTING HISTORY...

I used to use an image hosting service called Imgur. I had thousands of images of all sorts stored there. I did not study the 'Terms of Service' closely, as most don't, and found out that they do not allow anything other than G-Rated images. To my chagrin, I discovered this the hard way when one day without warning my Image Account with them was deleted completely after they went snooping around in my account and I lost over 10,000 images. As a result, they were all deleted from any and all Posts that I put them on here on SW and elsewhere.

Then I started using another image hosting service called imgbb that allowed all image types. After using hundreds of more images that I downloaded to that Image Hosting Site for Posts here on SW, it turned out that they were famously unreliable, with the images many times showing and then not showing on the Posts, back and forth.

The Third Time is suppose to be a Charm, right? ...no, wrong! I switched to a third image hosting site that allows all image types and downloaded thousands of images again from scratch over many months. This service was called imgbash. The site just shut down yesterday and appears to be permanently, thus deleting my images on all the Posts I used them on over the last year.

I am beginning again with a 4th Image Hosting Service and hope that this will be the last service I will have to use and will be reliable.

In the mean time, when you see my Posts with images deleted, this is what happened. I am going to try and replace the images on the most popular Posts but this will take many weeks and months to accomplish.

Thank you for your patience ...I LOVE YOU!
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HumanEarth · F
Again, I remember when this happened to you the first time. Same thing happened to me. But it wasn't for X-Rated photographs. For me my account just vanished.

Remember what I told you on GAG that I do. I always keep a external backup hard drive. That way I no matter where I'm at or what device I'm using. I've always have access to them.


They even have them for cellphones now.


I've stopped trusting in them websites years ago. I still use them from time to time. But with nothing important.
laurieluvsit · 26-30, F
@HumanEarth
Yes, I did take that precaution and haven't lost any of my images.
The problem is that the permanent image storage I have is a secure pay wall site that does not allow the images to be directly uploaded to media sites.
Instead they have to be downloaded to a hard drive or an image hosting service in order to download them to the media site from there.
So it is the secondary image hosting service that shut down on me yesterday.
I will never loose all my images again but the transfer process to get them on the media site is tedious thus time consuming.
HumanEarth · F
OMG what a pain in the ass that sounds like. Was it always that much of pain
laurieluvsit · 26-30, F
@HumanEarth
It only gets painful when image hosting sites shut down or delete your images :)
HumanEarth · F
I don't know if your old enough to remember this. But I'm going to talk to you like you do. Jusst to make it easier to talk about.

Remember when they had build your own websites for free, all you had to do was allow advertising on the pages.

Why not see if that's see if that's still a thing or build your cloud file sever.

How much do you know about about computers and turning a computer into a online cloud sever?

If nothing directions are easy to find on-line and not hard to do. If you can type and read. You can do this. And its almost free