TINYPIC's demise...now what...

The ones uploaded via tiny pic will disappear, which will be a lot of pics, but all we can do is roll with it. There are other ways to post pics without having to use a photo hosting site. For pics off the net a place like TP is unnecessary. I haven't used it except for personal pics in a long time. And fortunately not all the pics were posted through TP, so they haven't all gone away.

It's kind of like all the youtube videos that disappeared after Webbie updated the site. The videos & images in old posts may have disappeared, but we can still enjoy posting more. At least we won't have to worry about any repeats.

 

Yep, but it sure sucks the big one. I lost a few, but thankfully I mainly used the uploading feature for posting pics and didn't save many. I'm glad I still have a lot of stuff on my old computer.

 

It would have been possible to capture the pics before TinyPic made them inaccessible to 3rd party sites on September 9 by looking for links to tinypic.com in the database, saving the pics to a directory on wwbm, and then changing the link in the database to point to wwbm instead of tinypic.com.

However, some members purposely use these photo-sharing sites to control access to their images and where they are displayed. So privacy would be a concern if we found a way to circumvent this.

There are some broken background images that a developer used on the template of this site that links to tinypic. I'm trying to find and correct them.

 

That's a good question. Several days ago I got a request to merge it with the OP's original thread on the topic in the Men's Locker Room. When I saw your post, I thought maybe I'd left it in the MLR by mistake, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I spoke to Webbie about it, and he said there may be an older version in backup he could take a look at to see if he could figure out what happened. If it's in there, there's a possibility he could restore it, but not without a lot of hassle that he says is not really worth the trouble. Hopefully it was just some kind of error or weird glitch that'll be an easy fix. It suck if it's gone for good, because it was one of our best threads.

My suggestion if it can't be recovered is to start a new thread on the topic yourself, and you could start it with the pic of the big family you found on Reddit. It was one of the best pics in the thread IMO. Since the tinypic shutdown, a lot of the pics in the original thread are gone anyway, so maybe a fresh start is a good thing.

 

Yep, he knows:

https://www.whitewomenblackmen.com/forum/threads/tinypics-demise-now-what.29935/#post-1111665