Photobucket
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dani_meowsI'm dealing with the photobucket issues. The site I'm moving to has some transfer tools that I've put in a support request but I'm still in a sort of shock about it.
So many tutorials are lost. And there authors haven't logged onto their journals in years. Some are semi dead but some images were hosted elsewhere.
My icons are still up for now but immortalje's icons have been down for two days now, I can see them because I follow her on photobucket but her icon journal is all broken images.
I have 5,600 icons that I've made through the year. The icon project I had started was transferring them to another account to separate my fandom life from my real life as well as to show from oldest to newest just how much improvement I've made through the years.
But now it's on hold.
The new icon hosting site is for fandom arts and RPGs I'm hoping it's a good one.
But I'm also mourning the site I've used since 2004 and the icon communities that have been dying through the past few years but at least you could still find the old icons and tutorials but now so many are replaced by unsightly images.
Fuck you photobucket. You could have said, hey you need a paid account to use this feature. And I would have happily paid for the cheaper plans to host my little icons. It's a hobby after all, wouldn't have even complained, would have just paid up like i did years ago. But demanding nearly 400 dollars a year?
It's just little things I made in photoshop for fun. It's icons that I do to give something to the fandoms that see me through my anxiety and depression.
You cut off your nose to spite your face. And people don't need you anymore for that price, especially when I could create my own website to share my icons for less than 200 a year... and I could have my own domain name...
So many tutorials are lost. And there authors haven't logged onto their journals in years. Some are semi dead but some images were hosted elsewhere.
My icons are still up for now but immortalje's icons have been down for two days now, I can see them because I follow her on photobucket but her icon journal is all broken images.
I have 5,600 icons that I've made through the year. The icon project I had started was transferring them to another account to separate my fandom life from my real life as well as to show from oldest to newest just how much improvement I've made through the years.
But now it's on hold.
The new icon hosting site is for fandom arts and RPGs I'm hoping it's a good one.
But I'm also mourning the site I've used since 2004 and the icon communities that have been dying through the past few years but at least you could still find the old icons and tutorials but now so many are replaced by unsightly images.
Fuck you photobucket. You could have said, hey you need a paid account to use this feature. And I would have happily paid for the cheaper plans to host my little icons. It's a hobby after all, wouldn't have even complained, would have just paid up like i did years ago. But demanding nearly 400 dollars a year?
It's just little things I made in photoshop for fun. It's icons that I do to give something to the fandoms that see me through my anxiety and depression.
You cut off your nose to spite your face. And people don't need you anymore for that price, especially when I could create my own website to share my icons for less than 200 a year... and I could have my own domain name...
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Date: 2017-07-29 08:07 pm (UTC)Some of those old icons still look great, but some are just results of my playing around and I don't feel like carrying them with me. I'm contemplating taking that step on my hard drive as well. It helps that I've set up an svn tool (inspired by the tools I use at work) to back up all of my icons for easier transfer between computers. So, even if I do delete them, they'll still be in there.
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Date: 2017-07-29 09:22 pm (UTC)I'm trying to organize all my icons but I want to delete some of my older icons after making sure I still have them on my computer.
I might save a few just to see how far I've come but some of them are just awful.
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Date: 2017-07-30 01:51 pm (UTC)The hardest part was figuring out "Just when is this Dalek icon from?" Or "In which episode did the Cybermen look like this?"
Should I ever make more icons (which will probably feature the new Doctor as well) I'll probably start a new folder for that era.
I might go through the folder again and delete some more. And I probably will on my hard drive. I'm considering of just keeping two icon folders: one for all the ones I ever created and one where I pick from when I want to upload new userpics. The png files shouldn't take up too much space. All of the psd files I've kept are the bigger issue.