Jon Tofte
TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
TinyPic.com has been offline for almost a day now. All my picture links are dead...
Not sure yet if this is temporary, but it seems that our friends at Photobucket own TinyPic as well, so that doesn't bode too well. I guess you all that use Imgur picked better than me.
The one thing for all of us is that these sites have gotten themselves into a bad spot. People expect it all to be completely free but the massive storage space - and computer programming/web hosting, etc. - are NOT free. It may be that it is just not practical to make these things operate for the long run without at least some kind of a user fee.
If TinyPic pulled the plug, it sure would have been nice of them to give at least a little notice.
I will start looking into Imgur like most of the rest of you.
Not sure yet if this is temporary, but it seems that our friends at Photobucket own TinyPic as well, so that doesn't bode too well. I guess you all that use Imgur picked better than me.
The one thing for all of us is that these sites have gotten themselves into a bad spot. People expect it all to be completely free but the massive storage space - and computer programming/web hosting, etc. - are NOT free. It may be that it is just not practical to make these things operate for the long run without at least some kind of a user fee.
If TinyPic pulled the plug, it sure would have been nice of them to give at least a little notice.
I will start looking into Imgur like most of the rest of you.