Fotopic Problems

[Daniel533]

Is anyone else having problems accessing Fotopic today, i've been trying all day to log in but it never loads up:???:.

 

[P156KWJ]

Snappy designs (traded as fotopic) has gone in to liquidation and its future is uncertain. My site is just coming up as the page not existing (error 404). So we're all in the same boat

 

[devon_metro]

Oh Dear!!

 

[Daniel533]

Shame, i was going to buy more Quota

 

[Mr Alex]

Shame, i was going to buy more Quota

I just have...

 

[D306]

great! Now i gotta build 2 websites now. A railway one and a general photograpy. How fun is this going to be. May as well get started now

 

[JoshW1992]

I'm going to wait and see what comes out of this before I start flooding into new websites.

 

[LilLoaf]

Sure it'll be fine, lets not jump to conclusions, give it a few days, i thought mine was taken ages to load up like.

 

[Mojo]

Why not use Coppermine rather than building your own?

 

[mbonwick]

I hope you've all got backups of your photos!

 

[BJMorley]

May I suggest http://www.flickr.com? It wouldn't suprise me if many fotopic users move to here or coppermine, I might actually get myself a coppermine site, I don't know.
Brandon

 

[P156KWJ]

May I suggest http://www.flickr.com? It wouldn't suprise me if many fotopic users move to here or coppermine, I might actually get myself a coppermine site, I don't know.
Brandon

flickr is [censored words].

 

[Mojo]

Would any RailUK users benefit from being able to upload more photographs to their RailUK albums through vBulletin. All registered users benefit from 30 uploads but there are restricted dimentions and sized. Apply to join "Extra photo space" Usergroup for up to 100 photos and more lenient restrictions on a temporary basis. I also wonder if it's worth providing a Coppermine gallery for users to use as that's a bit more like Fotopic.

 

[devon_metro]

Can I trade in my album space for PM inbox space? Am sick of having to delete PMs

 

[P156KWJ]

can I trade mine in for being a mod in return?

 

[D306]

seeing as I'm fed up with all these outrages from fotopic, i've decided to make my own website now. http://ukrailphoto.50webs.com/ please note that this is the first website I've made and there could be some typos in the pages as well. it's not pro or anything, but it's something

 

[class 313]

Http://class313.50webs.com

*smug mode*

 

[devon_metro]

Http://class313.50webs.com

*smug mode*

I raise you to...

http://southwest-railways.50webs.com/

 

[Craig]

http://www.railfots.co.uk/

 

[devon_metro]

Pffft show off

 

[Z12XE]

Its sad if its true, Fotopic is very useful in that you could put a unit/loco number or place name into the search box and there would normally be loads of photos from different eras.

Although what I wont miss is where the whole world and his wife have gallerys that contain 20 shots of the same train with 0.5 of a second between them!

 

[adamp]

Those 50webs sites above ^^^ were they free?!?!

They look super
-Adam

 

[jacknottm]

This should make some good reading :

It seems like this has been people jumping to conclusions too quickly.. I hope at least

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fotopic.net

Jack

 

[class 313]

Those 50webs sites above ^^^ were they free?!?!

They look super
-Adam

They are, yes.

 

[EE Type 3]

Alot of froth.

Technical problems with the server, its hoped to be back up tonight.

 

[devon_metro]

Alot of froth.

Technical problems with the server, its hoped to be back up tonight.

Not bitter I hope mr dave

 

[33056]

Interesting thought for the day.......my avatar is still working (Fotopic thumbnail).

If it doesn't come back, I will have to carry on with Railpictures for the good stuff whilst I evaluate where to host the rest of the rubbish.

 

[LilLoaf]

I only set up my website a few weeks ago and its the 1st one i've done, was really proud of myself because i don't know how to work PC's al that well.

 

[Matt Taylor]

A few points:

Fotopic.net was a URL and not the name of the company, it was de-listed months ago when Snappy Designs bought fotopic.

Snappy Designs is functioning normally and is not out of business.

No major changes were made to the pricing structure etc since SD bought fotopic and if there were financial concerns I am sure SD would at least have made some attempts to effect a turnaround by upping the prices.

Fotopic's server host is working fine although fotopic was delisted at around 9.30 yesterday.

There is nothing from any news source saying that fotopic has gone out of business.

Further information can be found here:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/former-fotopic-users/browse_frm/thread/188ab0266f002d1d

You'll need to sign up to Google Groups to read it though.

Hopefully for all concerned there will be a positive outcome to this situation.



Matt

 

[Mojo]

Interesting thought for the day.......my avatar is still working (Fotopic thumbnail).

If you check the URL, your avatar is actually stored on railforums.co.uk.