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Theorically they keep the image as long as they are accessed at least one time per year, but it still happen that images disappear...
There are two cases
- images lost
- imageshack server inaccessible
Second case happens more often. If you click on the link of the dead image and do not get imageshack homepage, it means that it is just a temporary inaccessible server, and that it will be back in next days.
But if you get a "image not found" thumbnail replacing yours, then it means that the image is lost. I backup the newly posted imageshack thumbnails+images every week, so if you notice that in one of your old comments one is gone and that you do not have it anymore, you can notify me. We can for example use this topic for that. When I have some time I reupload them from my backup.
If you have a better image host to suggest, we could use it. The major problem of imageshack is that it is quite slow, and that some people have popup ads on it. The advantage of imageshack is that I can easily backup them: by taking the thumbnail URL I can also backup the full image by removing the ".th" in the URL. This is for example impossible with Imagevenue (to just cite one other image service) so I cannot backup these posted images.
(as I do not save these images manually: I just have a script that extract URLs from the database, one with the .th and one without, and then I give this URLs list to a download program)
There are two cases
- images lost
- imageshack server inaccessible
Second case happens more often. If you click on the link of the dead image and do not get imageshack homepage, it means that it is just a temporary inaccessible server, and that it will be back in next days.
But if you get a "image not found" thumbnail replacing yours, then it means that the image is lost. I backup the newly posted imageshack thumbnails+images every week, so if you notice that in one of your old comments one is gone and that you do not have it anymore, you can notify me. We can for example use this topic for that. When I have some time I reupload them from my backup.
If you have a better image host to suggest, we could use it. The major problem of imageshack is that it is quite slow, and that some people have popup ads on it. The advantage of imageshack is that I can easily backup them: by taking the thumbnail URL I can also backup the full image by removing the ".th" in the URL. This is for example impossible with Imagevenue (to just cite one other image service) so I cannot backup these posted images.
(as I do not save these images manually: I just have a script that extract URLs from the database, one with the .th and one without, and then I give this URLs list to a download program)