Simviation Forums

As part of site maintenance I am going to delete all images on these forums over 12 months old in a few days.

If you want anything of your own & don't have a backup - now is your chance to retrieve it


Downside is that some avatars & personal images will also go. You may have to upload these again - apologies - but I can't sort out these as there are 10's of thousands of images.


Thanks

Kewl - I was just curious though; exactly how much space is currently taken up by all those pics?

whew, i saved all 2 pictures i thought would be lost

Ramos

Kewl - I was just curious though; exactly how much space is currently taken up by all those pics?

A lot.

Oh well, it was time to change my avatar anyways!

A quote from Pete from the original post by Hype in one of the admin forums.

Around 50GB of files. About 280MB forums messages. About
3.5GB forum photos (this is due for another 'over 1 year delete')

Why can't we link from imageshack or sites of that matter?

It increases loading time...particularly for those on dial-up...

People would also start to hotlink too. Best enforcing a none at all policy and that keeps it away.