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Temporarily re-enable editing of messages?
Emeritus
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Posted: Monday, July 10, 2017 - 06:26 PM UTC
With Photobucket's sudden decision to drop 3rd party hosting for all but the highest tier paid accounts, would it be possible to enable editing of forum messages for a while to allow users to go back and fix their posts with working picture links?

While I'm not sure if I'd have the time or patiencce to replace every single picture I've ever posted here, I'd certainly appreciate the chance of being able to fix at least some of my newer posts, including one build log that I haven't posted in for over a year but still intend to finish.

Scrodes
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Posted: Monday, July 10, 2017 - 08:55 PM UTC
Wait, what? The edit feature was disabled?

I can't imagine why.


Edit; works for me. I guess someone is listening up there.
Emeritus
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Posted: Monday, July 10, 2017 - 09:32 PM UTC

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Edit; works for me. I guess someone is listening up there.


Oh yeah, I should have remembered to mention it; editing is possible for like 15 or 20 minutes after a message has been sent. After that it closes and edits can't be made anymore.
CMOT
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Posted: Monday, July 10, 2017 - 10:23 PM UTC
Editing is also possible on blogs by the author. Jim is the only person who can decide on this matter.
bzak
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Posted: Monday, July 10, 2017 - 11:07 PM UTC
I guess Photobucket doesn't know I exist. I still see my pics in old posts on various sites. They haven't contacted me about paying for anything either.

Brian Riedel
justsendit
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Posted: Monday, July 10, 2017 - 11:21 PM UTC

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I guess Photobucket doesn't know I exist. I still see my pics in old posts on various sites. They haven't contacted me about paying for anything either.


Coming to your local theater soon — it's only a matter of time. ... ⏰
Emeritus
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Posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 12:27 AM UTC

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I guess Photobucket doesn't know I exist. I still see my pics in old posts on various sites. They haven't contacted me about paying for anything either.


Coming to your local theater soon — it's only a matter of time. ... ⏰


Can confirm - my pics showed as usual for a while after first seeing people commenting here about theirs not showing, but they too started displaying that ransom notice as well last weekend. Seems they're rolling out that change over a period of time.


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Editing is also possible on blogs by the author. Jim is the only person who can decide on this matter.


Oh, yes. Indeed! Gotta go over those and fix 'em up. Guess that leaves campaign threads for the second biggest concentrations of images posted (at least for me, since those tend to double as a collective build blog thread for participants.
B_Ernie
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Posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 02:43 AM UTC
The reason why some of you can still see your own pictures may be because they are still in your browser cache.
drabslab
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Posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 04:32 PM UTC

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Editing is also possible on blogs by the author. Jim is the only person who can decide on this matter.



Its also the only person who can do something more advanced than manually editing all forum posts and manually change all pictures.

This is a general problem for the whole kitmaker network and the best solution would be by inventing an automated procedure.
rdt1953
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Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 02:04 AM UTC

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Editing is also possible on blogs by the author. Jim is the only person who can decide on this matter.



I have just begun to repair my Hayabusa blog vandalized by PB. I signed up with ImageShack u.s. - approximately $ 20. Per year - let's hope they don't pull the same b.s. as PB. I will wait a bit to see if they are o.k with this before repairing the rest.

If you checked the box at the beginning stating this will be a build log then you can edit your own entries at any time but not the responses of others . I have also discovered that in my case the edit option is only available on the device that I created the blog on - in other words I posted the pics and text on my desktop and so that is where the edit icon appears- it doesn't appear on my iPad.
Those that may be more computer knowledgeable then I ( and that would be most people! ) may know the how's and why's of this.
At any rate, Image shack could not be any easier to use - fingers crossed here !
Richard
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Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 02:23 AM UTC

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The reason why some of you can still see your own pictures may be because they are still in your browser cache.


I initially thought about that possibility too and tried cache-clearing page refreshes (ctrl+F5) when I was seeing FB's ransom note in place of other users' pictures while mine still showed up alright, but that didn't change the situation.


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I have just begun to repair my Hayabusa blog vandalized by PB. I signed up with ImageShack u.s. - approximately $ 20. Per year - let's hope they don't pull the same b.s. as PB. I will wait a bit to see if they are o.k with this before repairing the rest.

If you checked the box at the beginning stating this will be a build log then you can edit your own entries at any time but not the responses of others . I have also discovered that in my case the edit option is only available on the device that I created the blog on - in other words I posted the pics and text on my desktop and so that is where the edit icon appears- it doesn't appear on my iPad.
Those that may be more computer knowledgeable then I ( and that would be most people! ) may know the how's and why's of this.
At any rate, Image shack could not be any easier to use - fingers crossed here !
Richard


Oh yeah, quite a chore going through build blogs and replacing the image links, isn't it? I've already gone through half-a-dozen of mine. Fortunately I've kept copies of my resized build blog pictures on my PC for most of my builds so I don't have to cuss with Photobucket's album download tool, which seems to be working quite unreliably, with my guess on the reason for that being masses of people overloading the feature when downloading their albums en masse getting ready to leave that sinking ship.

A shame that quite a few of my builds are posted in campaign threads where messages can't be edited by default.

Are you logged in on your iPad? AFAIK, you should be able to edit your build blog posts regardless of the device you're using, as long as you're logged in.
rdt1953
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Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 03:13 AM UTC
Eetu- you are correct - when I logged in the edit icon appeared - thanks for clearing that up - Richard the computer dinosaur
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Posted: Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 03:07 AM UTC
You will all be happy to hear that editing posts is now possible no matter how old or whether or not they are blog-type posts.

I am not sure we will keep this policy in effect long term, but for the time being you can all edit posts and replace pictures or hosting with new options.

I will be looking at what we can do down the road to offer easier photos options for users making posts in the forum. Something new and different needs to happen to keep forums relevant and that has been on my mind a lot more lately.

Thanks for your patience in this matter.

Cheers,
Jim

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Posted: Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 02:23 PM UTC
Excellent! Much appreciated.
goodn8
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Posted: Friday, July 14, 2017 - 12:23 PM UTC
Fantastic, Jim!
Thanks a lot, started with my "Harrier-Campaign-Posts". Quite time consuming but works great! Now have to do some other edits little by little.

Again thanks,
Thomas
BlackWidow
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Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 12:27 AM UTC
Thanks a lot, Jim! I really appreciate your help for us all. Just checked my Assembly Line Thread and noticed the Edit icon. While I am still on holidays I cannot edit my thread now but will start after my return in August. There are 10 pages waiting to be repaired.

Greetings from sunny Latvia!
Torsten
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Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 12:31 AM UTC
The edit icon now appears on all my posts but hitting that button just takes me to a blank Armorama page and nothing happens after that.
Vodnik
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Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 12:54 AM UTC

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The edit icon now appears on all my posts but hitting that button just takes me to a blank Armorama page and nothing happens after that.



Confirmed - as Michael wrote: it doesn't work...
Vodnik
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Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 12:55 AM UTC
Aaaand it doesn't work even for most recent and fresh posts either now
staff_Jim
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Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 02:09 AM UTC
Okay... guess I will have to revert to an old test account. It's working fine for me but I may be getting some sort of mod powers exception or something.

Jim
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Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 02:31 AM UTC
Okay... I just remember why I dred making changes to the forum code.

It *should* be working now.

Give it another go.

Thanks,
Jim
Antilles
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Posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 02:40 AM UTC
Works greatly Jim!

Thanks a lot for Your work! Let´s keep these threads alive!

Oliver
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