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I just checked. One of my tutorials, from 2006, is still there.
It looks like VS uses Fastly for hosting. Fastly is a publicly traded company (FSLY) with a 1.8b market cap. I'd bet that they are doing their backups.
Or, maybe, I am restricted from seeing my older posts?
I doubt it, but if you aren't logged in, and especially if you're accessing the forum from a random IP address, you should be able to check without any hindrance.
I disagree. There are some posts and threads, many very old, that generate a lot of Google searches then hits and ad revenue. Most are ride reports and how to stuff. That’s what they spent money to own and I’m sure they have back ups.
I think those are two different things.
Have you seen any posts from active users that were undeleted and slapped with numbers? I thought that was just to anonymize accounts that were requested to be deleted.
No, I haven't looked into it that deeply.
There are some real classic old ride reports on ADVr that I would hate to see disappear. The older ones were all hosted on various sites. My older ride report pics were hosted on Photobucket but they are still all there and without the obnoxious "proudly hosted on photobucket" plastered across the pic. ADVr must have done something to make that happen although I think they did it before the VS takeover.
My old threads dating back to 2008 seem to all be intact and still under my control. I have no intention of deleting anything. I hope that in 10 or even 20 years I can still look back at my old ride reports.
So do I, and more importantly, I'm sure VS does, too.
Speaking of incredibly damaging business decisions.
I used them for years at $20 a year. Then suddenly $400 per year? I dumped them in a hot second, ruining thousands of posts. I use Image Shack now, $25 year.Speaking of incredibly damaging business decisions.
Photobucket - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
It sure was a shock to see the new hosting fees in 2017. I don't know if it was due to greed or poor planning that took the company to the edge of a financial cliff. Internet archeologists will be able to identify a PB Line in forums around the world, with dead links and furious anger directed toward Photobucket.
I was paying around $27 a year for my PB account. When they raised their fees to $400 I was paid up for around 10 or 11 more months so I was still covered but I immediately switched to SmugMug. I thought that after my PB subscription expired all my old pics would disappear but they didn't. The ones on ADVr didn't change but the ones on other forums had the "proudly hosted..." on them. For years I would get E mails from PB telling me my pics would be gone if I didn't renew but that never happened.Speaking of incredibly damaging business decisions.
Photobucket - Wikipedia
It sure was a shock to see the new hosting fees in 2017. I don't know if it was due to greed or poor planning that took the company to the edge of a financial cliff. Internet archeologists will be able to identify a PB Line in forums around the world, with dead links and furious anger directed toward Photobucket.
I am still receiving emails from PB about an inactive account and the threat of deletion. I first started using PB in 2004 and stopped in 2017. When they essentially broke all online forums, several forum owners wrote code that would download the original image from PB and host it on their own servers. PB's greedy nature turned me away and I'll never pay their fee's to regain access to my account 🖕
One of the mods over there called someone a “flat-tard”…which I assume means flat-earthier or some shit. Either way, I took it to describe some meat-fist mechanic that stripped the drain bolt on my F-150 as a “jack-tard” and got a 1 week ban. It only got worse for me from there.
