Hi guys, I hope its ok to post this question. I couldn't find anywhere appropriate on the forum. And while I'm here, maybe someone can advise me where members can ask questions regarding the workings of the forum.
I went through all of the reviews (well most) in the West Midlands Region. I noticed that some image thumbnails would not expand to a full view. Also, I came across a few dead links to which I'm presuming lead to obsolete web pages or expired/non existent profiles.
If I take screenshots of profiles and upload images to the forum server, will these images always be there to view? I don't want to be wasting time editing images and uploading if eventually they will disappear.
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No-one else has answered so here's my understanding of it
Based on something Oldadmin said years ago......
If you use the "attach image" button then the image is uploaded permanently to the server.
But if you embed the image using img /img tags then its temporarily cached on the server, being refreshed on demand from the source location.
This bit us not long after Oldadmin left as Adultwork overnight changed the paths to their image servers, leaving a lot of images missing from the forum. Someone (I presume Head1) eventually managed to repair the links so most of the images returned.
You mention the review images. What I understood to be happening there is that the thumbnails were stored permanently, but the full images were only cached so if the AW profile is closed, the image will eventually go.
Complicating the whole thing is that around three years ago the server ran out of space and Oldadmin deleted a host of images over a certain age or size. As a result you may find some early threads with missing images. The background problem there was a few idiots constantly posting images of their favourite girls and trying to turn the forum into their personal wankmags.
Most of what I've said predates the current admin team so may well have changed - especially as we're running on different servers now