Topic by Noxxa

Posted: 9/10/2019 9:31 PM

Post subject: TinyPic is shutting down - avatar users note

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Noxxa

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Joined: 8/14/2009
Posts: 4083
Location: The Netherlands

As of yesterday, TinyPic started to disable hotlinking images to their site, as part of the process of the site shutting down over the course of the next week. TinyPic users have until September 16th, 2019 to access their accounts and download their images before the site goes down. Now that hotlinking is disabled, avatar images hosted on TinyPic are now replaced with a large 300x300 placeholder image looking like below. This violates our avatar size requirements and stretches out user profiles, so I'm currently working on the process of removing/replacing any TinyPic-hosted avatars on the site.

As of writing, the following users have a TinyPic-hosted avatar which needs to be replaced:

AdamApple
alec kermit
andypanther
applepieman
ars4326
asutoro
Bernka
BLMNDEF
Buddybenj
Callmewoof
Comicalflop
cythelol
Dark Noob
diggidoyo
Discera
Domit
Dooty
emu
Eratyx
Evil_3D
evilchen
Exonym
F
feos
Firzen777
forkz
frake_
fruitbane
funnyhair
GetsuFuma
happy_mario
HappyLee
Harpuia
hegyak
HeoandReo
Itsumaru
jaysmad
Judge Ito
KawaiiChurchill
KDEuserX
KnucklesMaster368
Kratos
Leblancanator9000
Macman
mintcheep
Mitjitsu
Morrison
Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
Nibelung
Nightwatch
okaygo
potter
ptorflaxendrosis
RunnyYolk
sargon
shallow
Shuy_
Soig
Sonikkustar
SonOfDog
ti-will_154
True
Tseralith
Uvaz
VanillaCoke
Whelkman
xxm_
Yave Yu
YtterbiJum
ZarkonR
zggzdydp
zwataketa

I realize a lot of this list is inactive anyway and is not going to update their avatar, but this warning is still relevant for anyone who is still active and is on this list. For the rest, I'm currently looking into ways to batch-replace or remove their avatars.

http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.

Posted: 9/10/2019 9:35 PM

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adelikat

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Once they are shut down, we should follow up and actually remove people's avatars that are still using tinypic

It's hard to look this good. My TAS projects

Posted: 9/10/2019 9:38 PM

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Noxxa

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Joined: 8/14/2009
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adelikat wrote:

Once they are shut down, we should follow up and actually remove people's avatars that are still using tinypic

This is something I will be working on (similar to how I handled PhotoBucket disabling hotlinking at the time). It will take some time, though.

http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.

Posted: 9/11/2019 6:31 AM

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Noxxa

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Joined: 8/14/2009
Posts: 4083
Location: The Netherlands

Update: I've found a way to back up all TinyPic-linked avatars - adelikat is going to host them on the server, so we should be able to restore every former TinyPic avatar within a few days or so. In the meantime, I've replaced all TinyPic avatars with the following notice, to prevent large TinyPic images breaking pages:

This affects all 72 users from the list in the first post.

http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.

Posted: 9/11/2019 9:59 PM

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Noxxa

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Moderator, Expert player (4143)

Joined: 8/14/2009
Posts: 4083
Location: The Netherlands

Another update: All 72 TinyPic avatar users have now had their avatars restored with a copy hosted on the site. Everything should be good now.

http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.