Photobucket pulls the plug!

[Citizen K]

Danny, I think for the long haul you might want to consider self hosting your own image gallery. You can get a managed hosted bundle Chevereto gallery from as little as $46.20 a year which includes hosting and the gallery software licence. I know it would be a monumental task to edit all your thread image links but paying PB $400 a year is a non-starter.

I setup a test site last night using their free version and it seems to work pretty well, even with castrated free version functionality: https://www.airrifle.org.za/

[Citizen K]

Danny, I think for the long haul you might want to consider self hosting your own image gallery. You can get a managed hosted bundle Chevereto gallery from as little as $46.20 a year which includes hosting and the gallery software licence. I know it would be a monumental task to edit all your thread image links but paying PB $400 a year is a non-starter.

I setup a test site last night using their free version and it seems to work pretty well, even with castrated free version functionality: https://www.airrifle.org.za/

See above Danny. It took me less than half an hour set everything up. If you go for their hosted package they will do all the initial setting up for you. More than willing to assist you should same be required.

[Garvin]

See above Danny. It took me less than half an hour set everything up. If you go for their hosted package they will do all the initial setting up for you. More than willing to assist you should same be required.

Many thanks, Kane. I'll take a look.

[Citizen K]

Many thanks, Kane. I'll take a look.

I can provide you with an admin login if you want to look at the engine room.

[Garvin]

I can provide you with an admin login if you want to look at the engine room.

Thanks. I'll just give it a while to see if I get anything useful out of the general airgun thread.

I've stumbled upon this thread in the Chevereto support forum:

https://chevereto.com/community/thre...e-naming.8691/

I've no idea what it means, but it looks promising.

[Citizen K]

Thanks. I'll just give it a while to see if I get anything useful out of the general airgun thread.

I've stumbled upon this thread in the Chevereto support forum:

https://chevereto.com/community/thre...e-naming.8691/

I've no idea what it means, but it looks promising.

Yes, after the Imageshack disaster a few years ago I did the Postimage thing and an internal image importer script, thus, a user can upload an image directly from the editor toolbar, ten minutes later the image is imported onto my server and the image url replaced, there is effectively then an "archive" copy of the image at Postimage. Caveats, this works on Vbulletin software but will not work on the Network54 platform. You could easily integrate the Postimage uploader on your Network54 sites but the strong caveat there is that Postimage is not a gallery system at all, if lose an image url it will be gone, there is no search possibility either. The other major caveat of the Postimage system is that they too are struggling with server costs and the like , earlier this year they came within a whisker of closing down.

I do not allow image attachments as they are an unmitigated disaster on Vbulletin.

As far as I am concerned your resources are incredibly important to the airgunning community and the only way forward is to have total control over your own gallery system/server. I have looked at and setup things like Piwigo, Coppermine etc, my conclusion is that Chevereto is miles ahead technically and ease of use for the end user.

[Josie & John]

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J&J