All the technical threads I did for LROi forum went as they were 3rd party only hosting of pictures, my build thread was useless as it was mostly written there as that was the forum I settled in first and when I moved on much of it was just copy and paste moving house type effort.
A lot of threads are useless now, and to make it worse, the guys that created those threads have moved on from Land Rovers and no longer venture into the boards to even notice that the threads have no pictures, I know I was a victim of popularity many times through the strong views my threads had and the images no longer being available through exceeding bandwidth and having to wait for the next month to show them all again.
Personally I think it was a two fold attack, one to make money from you if you were a business or serious hobby photographer and to get rid of the half a dozen photo Jo's that were taking up space on their own servers, either way, they are still in business so it didn't hurt them enough to collapse the company so potentially we were merely small fry in the world of 3rd party image hosting?
I always hadit in the back of my mind that one day they would do something like this but not quite so severe, maybe a limited free content but after the volume of free space had been used you had to sign up to a hosting plan, but the whole "choose your package if you ever want to see your pictures again" business model was a bitter pill to swallow.
After my initial apprehensions I thought that 3rd party hosting was the way forward after loosing memory cards and accidentally wiping them trying to "format" them in various cameras, 3rd party meant you could upload in bulk, wipe the card and shoot more pics and they were safe and usable on those systems, obviously they left it long enough (I used them for several years, a decade or so in fact) to get users hooked and with accounts with hundreds and thousands of images and then decided to start making money out of you.
I feel your pain
I guess I'm cynical enough to have kept all my photo's Bl@@dy modern world is going to hell in a hand cart
