DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Mine went too. Luckily I had saved a PDF of my rebuild thread, so will go through and do that again, hoping I can download from PB. Have been able to do a couple of tests from my phone, but don't know how it will go for 'libraries'

What a shitter. Totally trashed the history of the forums.

I can see why they're doing it, but $400 is crazy. Looks like it is going down.

Have just finished rebuilding my thread. Only 88 photos but it still took me quite a time to download from Photobucket, repost to Flickr and then amend each posting. It's a shame, but I don't think I'll be repeating that with all of the other random photos I have posted.

Hmm, see PB have caught up with me, the avatar has gone, will have a look at my build thread for the orange TS from 09, and see what I can do

Have just saved my restoration thread ...cut and pasted each forum page into emails
So far my pictures are all displaying....at least I now have a copy to rebuild the thread from Flickr should I need to

What an utter cock though....

It is John. Plus the way they've done it shows utter contempt for their users

Been thinking much about this......highly unlikely most people, me included, who will take the time to rebuild old threads. Old threads are going to be dead and gone with a lot of enjoyable content lost to this community.

I never had an issue paying Photobucket £20 odd quid a year to host my photos, if PB had insisted upon this after a trial period maybe they wouldn't be in the situation they are now?.........but isn't this going to potentially be the same for any other form of 3rd party hosting when they realise their business model doesn't work, same crisis another time.

We all know what an incredible job Thomas has done keeping this place a pretty cool place to hang.....no rules, no demands, no real drama and as such it's attracted a great crowd......but then Thomas has a day job and a life and can only do so much.

Maybe it's time for us all to pay our way?......server hosting services that can host our own photos without issues and technical support that monitor, develop and maintain the site with Thomas pushing the buttons?
You could possibly have a photo upload facilty that's easy to use and automatically resizes photos to avoid huge images and large file sizes which keeps the site looking sharp along with other ongoing development that will keep the site current and fresh?

Trouble is it all costs, I'm happy to pay my way and hope other would too if they value DDK.......keep it maverick maybe and suggest people only chip in what they can afford but only let them post photos if they do?

Whichever way, I believe.........without photos threads are pointless!

I'm in . Can we have our own dark web section

hot66 wrote:I'm in . Can we have our own dark web section

Funny you should mention that!......next request was invite only by the author threads (maybe in the members section?) where groups can chat amongst themselves without the input from the rest of the community?

Might not be the most popular suggestion but then not everything is for sharing.

Darren65 wrote: ....next request was invite only by the author threads (maybe in the members section?) where groups can chat amongst themselves without the input from the rest of the community?

A kind of early Porsche apartheid ??

mycar wrote: A kind of early Porsche apartheid ??

.....you could view it like that but I was thinking it would keep people here rather than drifting off to Facebook and WhatsApp etc.

Individual meets, private transactions, slagging people off behind their backs!.....I think there's a place for it and no different from PM's really just in a thread format....some times you don't want others chipping in.

Just a thought?

Darren65 wrote:Whichever way, I believe.........without photos threads are pointless!

I agree that a build thread without the photos isn't much use to anyone.

Hence I've spent all my spare time for the last three days migrating mine over to Flickr.
It was either that or give up on the thread - hopefully others will also put the effort in.

Of course I would rather have been in the workshop being productive!

Darren65 wrote:
Individual meets, private transactions, slagging people off behind their backs!.....

I wasn't aware that any of this was happening.

Bloody typical, I'm always the last one to find out about anything and everything.

And who's getting slagged off behind their back ??........??.......

mycar wrote:And who's getting slagged off behind their back ??........??.......

You ya twat

Bootsy has just advised me that in this thread are the rules for picture posting.
Where abouts are they please?