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No posts by anyone else here in days, nor in the associated gallery. Only three new views of anything in that gallery in the past 48 hours, as near as I can tell.

If I didn't know better I'd think it was a major holiday weekend around an occasion as major as Thanksgiving or Christmas!

Hello *waves*

just stay cool, after one day with 114 new postings some fewer post days follow, after sun follows rain ;)
but i am quite comfortable with letting it be slow

Speaking of slow, has there always been a one gallery post per day rule? I almost always operate in batch mode  :fiery:

no, this rule is new because just 450megabytes of webspace is left, and i want to make it slow, just to keep hosting costs as low as possible without the need to delete anything ...

Oh dang!  :sad1:

Is changing hosts an option?

I'd suggest Photobucket integration or something like that in the gallery. So users could host an image somewhere else and still display it in the FF gallery and get ratings and comments there.

Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to start deleting some of the old stuff.  Some of this stuff, as totally awesome as it is, has been around for a couple of years, now.  If it's a really cool picture we could always re-post it.  And it wouldn't be that hard to automate.  A picture goes without viewing for such and such a time period it is automatically deleted, or something like that.

Please don't misunderstand me, the artwork you've all posted is fantastic, but reducing file size means reducing picture quality, and if you keep adding limits, there will eventually be no point in posting at all.

i just checked, the pics folder of the gallery is amazingly 4gigs big, 20.000 files, thumbnails+pics, 10.000 single images :D

Yes, off course: (https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_SM.gif) (https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=FGtAJ25EulR3NNR_aP7mBW9h_tDnhKTaEMrsqn1XbojHMhBp_ubZ6gxQ70e&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d7283e7f0184a5674430f290db9e9c846)

;D

When I get a job I'll be clicking that button, promise! I already tried but Paypal doesn't accept fractals as payment?  :o

The host I use for my website (Dreamhost) gives unlimited storage (and I'm fairly sure it's unlimited bandwidth too) for a reasonable price. I've already used more than 10GBs. It might be worth contacting the hosting provider and seeing if they can donate/allow more space or to see if they have any newer plans too.

its life that i am experienceing, i hope i manage to steer this safely through, i know that i have a fairly expensive host ( 1&1 )
but since more than 12 years i am a customer and i am quite happy with them...most certainly we have to starve ( concerning uploads ) until end of year,
and i keep an eye on  the gallery, i have exactly one year of updates, and they are updating it quite often, anyways i am not an extreme friend of external image hostings for a gallery, just because after some years ( remember ? this gallery is up for 6 years now ... ) it is just crowded with offline images that have to sorted out, and really nice and interesting content is gone this way....

People can already post offsite images; just not get them rated in the gallery. Those offsite images are already susceptible to link rot. And one of the proposals recently floated here would make all of the images here susceptible to link rot.

On the other hand there may be other ideas. For one thing, if you're a loyal customer of the host for many years and this is a temporary financial rough patch, maybe they'd be willing to give you a temporary break to avoid losing such a customer for good. The other is to maybe tap into the dA community in some manner; there's been a fair bit of cross-posts between here and there.

How about editing gallery images to max. 250*250 px thumbnail size and post the image link as bbc img in the description? I would save you about 20mb ... and probably much more till the end of the year.

I think the idea is to keep the gallery for uploaded images, with off-site images better posted to the "Rate my fractal" section of the forum.

That way the gallery section is not subject to links dying, and threads which lose their images due to "link rot" are easier to prune.

Rating the images is really not important except for contests.  You can always ask for feedback in the image description if feedback is what you are after   O0

Hopefully this wont be a long term problem.

I'm with you Sockratease ... and i'm with Kali. Actually i've already donated.

Edit: But it gets off topic now. How about a new thread?