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Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-23 14:57:44 (edited 2010-09-23 14:59:52)
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As of September 23, 2010 Tinypic is no longer accepting uploads from international locations, and links are turned off. If you have content on Tinypic, you can still view the URLs and the content, but only on Tinypic. To upload, share, or link content, please go to Photobucket.com to register an account. You will need to upload your content again to your Photobucket account, but you will be able to share and link your images and videos. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope that you enjoy Photobucket, our premier image and video site. No reasons provided yet, but this is ridiculous. :D So for those that are not in the US and hosting images from this site, please change your URLs right away or you'll see a bunch of huge unavailable images. |
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-23 15:16:24 |
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To those who don't feel like using Photobucket and only need a quick upload, I recommend www.sadpanda.us or imgur.com. It doesn't make sense to me that they'd continue running the site like this. I wonder if they plan on allowing international users back at some point.  |
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-23 17:18:52 |
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I think soon, it should be mandatory for users to have their images uploaded to other image hosting site other than Tinypic. Some uploaded content are viewable to IP addresses in the states but not to us foreigners. I wonder what's the beef between Tinypic and Photobucket? In any case, their decision is definitely not beneficial to us. By directing us to Photobucket, it'll not offer the same service. There're bandwidth limitations on Photobucket. :/     |
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-23 20:02:30 |
| I wasn't aware of that... I can't imagine why they would do that and reduce the number of people who use their site so drastically. One could only hope that this would be temporary, but oh well. Thanks for the info. |
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-23 20:12:17 |
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Haha, that answer on why every tinypic images are unavailable. Good thing i am using photobucket. Thanks anyway Miko for the notice. |
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-23 22:29:40 |
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(lol, for a second Miko I thought you worked for tinypic!) Isn't Imageshack a host to serve like Tinypic? Although mainly for this site I've always used Photobucket, my smaller alternative was always imageshack. But yeah hopefully people take notice to this soon, or else everyone's gonna get zapped I hope. XD 
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-23 22:49:43 |
Whoa. I did not know about these happenings.. But yeah. I prefer Photobucket too, tho I was using puush currently... And I agree to DA, we might going to see a major zap, perhaps..  |
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Oh mai. well, thanks for the information. |
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-24 08:06:00 |
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"We heard from many of our users in regards to these changes and we appreciate your feedback. Tinypic has restored linking to your images and enabled uploading. Please rest assured no content was removed from the site. We tried to notify users on Tinypic and requested they move their content to Photobucket. Unfortunately this messaging was insufficient and has taken many of our users by surprise and we apologize. Our intent was to begin combining some of the best features of Tinypic and Photobucket, thereby offering users a better experience. Any changes in the future will be better communicated. Once again, we apologize for the inconvenience." So yeah. It's back now. |
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Re: Important notice for Tinypic users
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on 2010-09-27 09:24:38 |
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Oh great, and I'd lost my link in one of the image I am using... but anyway, thanks for telling about it. |