First off, about 30-40 members may notice that their custom profile picture or avatars were removed. This was because the overall size of these images was using far too much storage date on the site. You may repost them, but please use a MUCH smaller size.
Secondly, quite a while ago I increased the size of attachments to make them more presentable. I had not really understood the storage impact that this would have on server storage. For the last few months I have been culling older photos to keep the file size down.
While the site size is manageable now, it is still growing rapidly from all manner of content. I am therefore asking that those who are using attachments for their sales ads switch to using a photo hosting site like photobucket. You can then use larger and more presentable photos that take up zero space in the database. I am asking people to do so voluntarily. It may become mandatory... the other option for a growing site like ours is to scale up to a MUCH more expensive and labor intensive type of hosting.
I am hoping that people will understand and use hosting... Please use only sites that do NOT insert ads along with the photos as I will delete them when I see them. Photobucket is free and easy enough to use .
Cheers,
Bobby
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Originally Posted by saskmh
