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Discussion in 'About phun.org' started by TKA1, Mar 17, 2008.

  1. Taipan

    Taipan Reach Out And Touch Faith Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Phun Award Holder POLL STAR ★

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    At least IS is an imagehost that works for 3-4 years now,sometimes good,sometimes not so good.
    For me it's terrible if a host quits his service after a few months,like photos.cx.
    For the future we need our own pic/file hoster.
     
  2. TheRiver

    TheRiver temporarily a little out of order. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Movers & Shakers

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    even more: a PHUN running well. what good is an imagehost, as good it may be, when it´s almost impossible to post the uploaded pics here?
    10 mins admin-work. no donations necessary.
     
  3. Taipan

    Taipan Reach Out And Touch Faith Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Phun Award Holder POLL STAR ★

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    I don't think disabeling avatars is the cure.

    Other forums have to handle that bandwith too.

    Cayne pays enough money for the hosting,so he should kick some asses there :lol:
     
  4. ItPutsTheLotionOnItsSkin

    ItPutsTheLotionOnItsSkin It's So Moist

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    I'll second that, their problems and issues are pretty minor when you consider the fact they are still up and running and have been for some time.
     
  5. TheRiver

    TheRiver temporarily a little out of order. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Movers & Shakers

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    my :2cent:

    avatars are hosted on phun-servers. no avatars = less data-transfer

    other forums don´t pay that much attention for guests (most of them don´t have any)...

    if i were a hoster i´d always recommend additional servers... that´s their business... (anyone remembers that they said the latest server-upgrade was good for > 6000 members and guests online simultaneously?)

    anyways: all, again all replys on how can i reduce server-load" on each and every "vbulletin"-support-forum recommend disabling showing "who´s online" in the first place. obviously this feature needs king-size server-power. turn it down for the (usually 2000-3000 guests). sounds reasonable, doesnt it? a few clicks in the admin-CP.

    in general i agree, but maybe you´d also be a little concerned if you, like me, got some malware through imagevenue´s advertising-system and had to spend a day to get rid of these root-kits. that´s most def. not a minor issue.
     
  6. Taipan

    Taipan Reach Out And Touch Faith Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Phun Award Holder POLL STAR ★

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    Avatars should not be the problem river,you know that better than me....

    @ your last point:maybe you got some malware from an infected pic, hosted on IV,but for sure not from IV itself,it's the best imagehosting service we have at the moment.
     
  7. Taipan

    Taipan Reach Out And Touch Faith Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Phun Award Holder POLL STAR ★

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    BTW. would be nice to see your online status. ;-)
     
  8. TheRiver

    TheRiver temporarily a little out of order. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Movers & Shakers

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    no, someone exploited the "skip this ad"-advertising-campaign by imagevenue. shouldn´t happen to a professional imagehost.

    btw.: a little more active admin-presence would be much more iportant.
    why is it always necessary to "get on his nerves" to get rid of glitches, malfunctions etc.?
     
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  9. Noodle Panda

    Noodle Panda ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 15 Year Member

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    i have no idea whats going on anymore. i'm waaaaay to dumb
     
  10. rapids_x

    rapids_x firebrigade

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  11. Taipan

    Taipan Reach Out And Touch Faith Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Phun Award Holder POLL STAR ★

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    WTF?

    No!

    It's removed from the approved host list!

    You want to use a host again that called us a bunch of assholes?
     
  12. ManRay

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    I know this ain't a chat thread,
    but i couldn't agree more...

    20 mb porno gifs ??

    He was the one that set the limit to 8mb,
    if he couldn't handle it, it's his own fault...

    Photogiga has been working very good for me
    in the past few days, but i still like dreamuploader
    best, its plain and simple...
     
  13. TKA1

    TKA1 has erectile dysphunction

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    even i of all people say no way. i agree 100% with tai.

    would be interesting to do some more long-term testing with www.dreamuploader.com since it does seem pretty cool and it's fast, but it also seems very new since they have less than 4,000 images.
     
  14. ManRay

    ManRay Back !! (Kinda) ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

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    That baffled me, TKA1,
    so few uploaded pics ??

    I think when i uploaded my first pic there it
    was under 3000 ? :confused:
     
  15. TKA1

    TKA1 has erectile dysphunction

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    are you baffled by the amount of pics or by me saying it's new?

    it currently says they are hosting 3,673 images. that's not a lot.
     
  16. ManRay

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    I tested it for CTF's gif animation thread...

    I was amazed that it only has so few images uploaded...

    And the number is still rising very slowly...

    I think it's a decent to use nice hotlinkable filehost !

    EDIT : Arrghh thats all i've been seeing tonight !

    [​IMG]

    Whats up with that ??
     
  17. TKA1

    TKA1 has erectile dysphunction

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    photogiga is doing maintenace. hopefully sigs will be back soon
     
  18. Kieks

    Kieks Getting away with it, all messed up. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Original Phun Crew

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    Another upside to not using photos.cx anymore is that he won't be able to crack the shits at us if his site goes haywire again and more importantly, the motivational pics will hopefully remain without being removed.
     
  19. Noodle Panda

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    i say we ATTAAAAAAAAAACK


    he lied aboot us after all.
     
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  20. mrfreeze

    mrfreeze Exec E's KinkE Consultant

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    When did that happen? :confused:
     

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