The Attachments Problem

[Rallymaster]

Good day Show Rod Rally fans and members.  It has come to my attention that members can no longer post "Attachments" on these forums.  My Admin tools tell me that is because we have FAR exceeded the paltry MB storage allotment given by Proboards (see image below--they allot 200MB and we are over triple that.)

My choices are:

1. Start paying $9/month for more storage, which will also run out pretty quickly and need to go to $12/month.
2. Kill all of the existing images and files already attached through 20 years of discussion posts and free up the space to "start over".
3. Leave existing images and attachments and direct all members to post images using a different source.

After careful consideration, I choose option #3.  I will leave all existing images and attachments and I encourage everyone to use an image site like imgur to post all new images in these forums.  If I different option appears that makes more sense, I reserve the right to change my mind 

Quick notes: 

• I'm paying $6/month to Proboards to keep ads off for everyone who logs in (guests will see ads). This is of course in addition to hosting and domain name fees I incur annually.
  
• When I started this thing in 2001, I resisted the temptation to put Google Ad Sense on the Rally and make money off of it.  That policy will continue.  I do not want that commercial clutter in my hobby life (even though now I'm retired and on a "fixed income"  )

[TooOld]

It's a tough call but I think you made the right choice , we've had this problem over on the Car-Toons Board and it was decided early on to just delete all of the attachments and start over . That solved the immediate problem but we lost a lot of great pics , and eventually we ran out of storage again . After 3 or 4 times deleting attachments and pleading for members to use a third party hosting site we're finally at the point where practically everybody is doing so . For those that refuse to pay for a hosting site there are now free sites (imgBB is what most are using) that seem to work okay .

[stevielewis]

Imgur is a free site you don't pay to have your photos stored there. I use it for posting my photos here.

[Rallymaster]

Jun 12, 2023 7:25:53 GMT -6 stevielewis said:

Imgur is a free site you don't pay to have your photos stored there. I use it for posting my photos here.

That's what I use now and find it relatively easy and quite effective.

[farmboy]

I wasn't aware a photo host site would be the answer till I read the two informative postings on this thread. I decided on imgbb and after a bit of experimentation with the process it works. My apologies for any frustration I may have added to the mix, but now I know.

[stevielewis]

And knowing is half the battle. Glad you figured it out and are posting again.