Very disappointed and disgusted.

[wundudnee]

I have been a fototime paid user for nearly twenty years. In that time it has been very dependable and easy to use. Fototime has disappeared from the internet. It appears they closed their Facebook and all their web sites and contact information.

I had between 300 and 400 pictures stored on there, mostly firearms S&Ws and Winchester .22s. I do have most pictures backed up on CDs, but all the posts I've made over the years in threads of specific models with pictures are gone and unrecoverable. Like Photobucket it seems fototime has pulled a really low life move.

I would have thought a company that worked so well for so long could have at least had enough class to notify their paying customers of their passing.

I understand that it was basically a two man business in Dallas Texas and

other businesses they were involved in also seem gone.

JUST MY SORRY RANT.

 

[pharmer]

Photos are "free expression." Only way to control that is to pull the plug. Joe

 

[Fishinfool]

That's the problem with these storage / photo sharing services - they are one click from "gone". I use FLICKR, been around a long time, and just recently started asking for donations to keep in business. Handwriting is on the wall for them, I fear.

After having my ex "accidentally" delete most of my wildlife photography I kept only on my hard drive, I learned a lesson. Now everything is backed up on two separate, portable hard drives, one kept in my safe, and one in my camper, "just in case".

Sorry for the headaches.

Larry

 

[ContinentalOp]

While not shut down, as far as I know, I had a similar issue with Photobucket, when they started demanding payment. Now I use Postimages. However, I never use it as photo storage, only for posting photos here. All my photos are on my computer or flash drives. So if a hosting service goes down, for whatever reason, I don't lose my photos. I don't particularly trust the "cloud," for the most part.

 

[Absalom]

That is the problem with “posting through hosting”: figuratively speaking, you are relying on some other guy to keep holding up your pictures with your posts. He is only going to keep doing that as long as it makes him a profit somehow, through ad income or direct pay. And especially in the internet age, more businesses fail than succeed in the long run, since conditions and competition changes rapidly.

That’s why I’ve never used a hosting service. All my pictures in my posts in all forums that I’ve participated in are directly attached to the post from my device’s picture library and embedded. They will remain with their post even after I die, as long as the forum itself exists.

 

[dasnake]

Me too.

I used hunt 101 for years lost everything, they restarted lost everything again, i just keep everything on a separate device lots more work but at least I have them, one pic I lost that really irked me was muley on a camel while he was in the sandbox, damn.

 

[AzShooter]

I keep all the pictures I take on my 3 TB drives. I've lost too many over the years counting on someone else. I erase the photos I don't want and then don't worry about them.

Between the 3 drives I have plenty of room for backups.

For photos I want to share on the internet I use IMGURE. It stores a lot for free and is easy to navigate and download back from.