When it comes to salvage the work of others, there is a need to be organized. Please note that Xander and Nicodemus will address this issue as well. Nevertheless, time is of the essence, and we should not refrain from manually salvaging what we can from long-since inactive CDO accounts.
Note that this list for the moment concerns itself with downloaded/saved pictures. Uploading the pictures again is a given goal, but first we need to save the pictures from Photobucket. Mass upload can come after that.
Please note that some accounts are unregistered and thus cannot be linked-to.
Accounts whose images have been salvaged/downloaded by the users themselves are marked in BLUE.
Accounts of inactive members whose images have been salvaged/downloaded by volunteers or the users themselves are marked in GREEN. This is the most important list. The one to keep updated. Please report when you have salvaged an account salvaged to stop double-work!
Accounts whose images have not yet been salvaged are marked in ordinary BLACK. (This list is of less importance and may not be updated frequently or given much attention. Use your own memory, the member search option or look through lists of old logs, conversions and showcase threads to find accounts. In particular, use the “Find threads by this user” option and scan for army blogs, conversions and showcase.)
Accounts whose images could not be salvaged in any way are marked in RED. Effectively lost, not a single image salvaged.
Nicodemus
Skink
tjub
Abyss
al-hashut
Ami Fluff
Arashi
Ashur
BABIS
Bjorni
blackgonzo
Blue in VT
Bolg
Borador
Cotter
DAGabriel
Darkash
DARKTROOPER
Dezmord
dgoer
Dorktaku
Drm
Ellimist
Father Grumpmas
Felix
Forgemaster Gubins
Furrie
Geckilian
Golder Goldeater
Grask Dragh
GRNDL
Grongi Blackbeard
grunts
Grupax
iantee1989
Igneous Bull
Khan!
Knight Of Awesome
KRUG_666
Kyte
Loki
Lord Aldades
Malificant
m3lvin
minty
Obsidian
Pulper
Rejector
Revlid
sam585
Servius
Skyefire
Snotling
starscream
Stubbs
Swissdictator
The Flying Beaver
Theory_Man
thepaintingmonkey
tirli_pinpon
torn
Triton
turquois dwarf
ubertechie
wallacer
warh
WarplockMonkey
wizuriel
Yodrin
Zhatek The Weird
Chaos Dwarf Artwork Compilation (Thread)
Chaos Dwarf Random Gems From Across the Web (Thread)
I volunteer as tribute! This weekend I have a house full of people staying with us (my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary celebration is tomorrow) but next week I can get on this.
Thank you, Grimbold! Just what’s needed! We’ll have to get a proper link list up including great CD finds across the web, artwork and all manner of log and showcase sections to wade through.
If someone wants to chip in straight away but is in doubt or lacking a list, just dive in to some favourite inactive log or pick something promising among the earliest army logs of the forum, and pick out the best pictures for storage. Let’s see what we can do before the dark gate closes on us forever.
Also, I suppose it could be good if we tried to name the image file after its creator (e.g. “Snotling 01” or “Snotling Ballista 02”), just so it’s tagged straight away.
Awesome tjub. I can't get the buttom to work right now.
Someone get the chaos dwarf mining complex down if it is still available! And Snotlings stuff!!!
Malorndk
Not to worry. I've backed up all of the Chaos Dwarf mining complex materials to my local drive as part of that operation a while ago, and can easily re-host them elsewhere.
I've also downloaded my Photobucket folder. It is straight forward but the site seemed pretty laggy and it was hanging a lot for me. I probably had to try a dozen times or so before it finally zipped them and showed me the download link.
There is a list of options at the bottom right corner of the screen whenever you are viewing an album and one of them is Download Album. It’s just a shame there’s not a download all albums button.
Xander and I have a relatively easy fix. I’m working on the details with the other staff (in our hidden Admin section of the forum) and we will then post instructions for the fix.
This Photobucket stuff is depressing. First GW kills warhammer fantasy…and now this.
Living overseas now, I’ve been unable to access my Photobucket account without major login difficulties. My account in inundated with pop up adds that makes signing in virtually impossible. And now they’re blocking third party hosting. Elfs are responsible!
Luckily I have all my army blog pics saved on various memory cards…but in no particular order
I think I will wait till the storm blows over before I decide what to do.
In the meantime I will post any new (limited) hobby stuff on my Facebook page.
However, there might be some risk of Photobucket becoming overloaded these coming days, or even collapsing if worse come to pass. I am not knowledgeable in these matters of techno-arcana, so please excuse any misjudgement in this assessment.
Some Dakkadakka members have posited speculations as to Photobucket’s motives: There exist a suspicion that Photobucket is intentionally making itself impossible to have its users download and migrate before shutting down finally, after grabbing some last money. Whatever the actual reasons, we would do best to seriously consider the possibility that Photobucket may cease to exist in the close future.
And more closer to what we know; the window is closing, and soon we will not be able to access Photobucket images of others at all. Time is of the essence.
First post updated. Volunteers wanted. Please refer to it for lists and report here upon salvaging the images of other, inactive CDO members.
Many of us active members might have backup copies independent of Photobucket, but the inactive members are by definition inactive. No guarantees when or if they’ll ever return, and likewise there are no guarantees that they themselves have independent backup files of their Photobucket pictures. If the active members do not salvage what they can from the inactive members, we risk a meltdown of continuity.
Please note that participating in this salvage operation may mean confusion and redundant double-work, particularly when Stage 2 of the Staff’s Photobucket Migration to the Darklands roll out. It’s all conscious risks to be undertaken for improving our chances of saving CDO’s past for the sake of its future.
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