Originally Posted by
BHP9
I'm using Imgur now and they seem to be good.
No, not necessarily. Cleaning up the posts with dead photo links is very time consuming and we can't check every post to see where the links were supposed to lead, but we have spot checked a few. The majority have been Photobucket and Tinypic, but there are others … including some that were to Imgur.
This may not be due to Imgur. It's possible that the owner of the image(s) deleted some photos to make room for others in his/her album, or rearranged them. Either action would break the link.
What we're finding is that we clearly allowed this to go along for too long without addressing it. We have deleted at least 300 posts in the Kimber photo thread alone, due to dead links, as well as editing numerous posts in which some images display but others were dead links. We culled out similar numbers of dead link posts in the Colt and Armscor photo threads. We just did another manufacturer's photo thread, that was a much smaller thread. Even there, we culled out 100 or so posts with dead links.
So, dear friends, we have lost a tremendous number of photos. And many of our members have proven themselves to be top flight photographers, so a lot of those photos really were "eye candy" grade images. While the world is on semi-hold due to COVID-19 closings, this would be a great time for all of you who are proud of your 1911s to fire up the camera and do your part to rebuild the library of great 1911 gun photos.
Just remember, please, that the photo threads are ONLY for photos, and maybe a short sentence or two just to identify what the gun(s) is/are. Obviously, you are also welcome to post questions and longer stories and range reports about your guns, but those don't go in the photo threads. Post those as new threads in the respective manufacturers' discussion areas so other members can join in the discussion.
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