01-29-2021, 06:58 AM
(01-26-2021, 06:45 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: I’m not clear what you mean, j3gq. How would it work?
By the way, I’m only aware that we ‘lost’ photos due to external interference once: when Photobucket shut down access to non-susbsribers’ photos. They’ve since relented, although the photos of non-subscribers are watermarked. There are workarounds for that using browser extensions in Chrome and Firefox. The other reason photos have disappeared is that members have deleted them or closed their accounts.
If problems are really that rare, there was of course no need to change anything. But the risk remains.
A simple solution is this : a Nextcloud account, at a trustworthy provider. Everybody, and I mean everybody uploads his or her photos to that same account, and photos are automatically trimmed to say 100kB during upload. The owner (or you, or me) syncs this cloud folder with a local hard-drive (HDD) once a week, and ideally from a fast ADSL home network. This keeps the photos and all files names. Should that cloud ever go down, or require ransom, all we have to do is create a new account with another operator, and upload the contents of the private HDD to the new cloud. In the worst case, one directory name change might be needed on the server which hosts the CB forum.
Within your / our posts, all photos are linked to the very same nextcloud account. It might be worth a good trial (and error) session before you all stone me.
Some number crunching :
forum posts so far 270,000
est. # of pics per each 1000 posts = 100
est. # of pictures in the forum = 2700
allowed size of any picture uploaded = 100kB
total size of all forum pictures (GB) = 2700 x 100 / 1,000,000 << 2GB
2GB is the standard "free" size of a nextcloud provider account (private cloud)