Gallery Trimming to Save Storage

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RFF has grown to over 25,000 members, almost tripling in size in the past year and a half. By far the most storage intensive part of RFF is the Photo Gallery, by huge factor. Thanks to our growth, our new much larger server is running out of disk space, which also slows down the site. The Gallery is intended to showcase and discuss the members latest work, not as a long term image archive. It's interesting to imagine what that archive might look like in fifty years, but managing that ever larger limitless storage over the years and paying for it is a lot less interesting.

So July 1st gallery images older than 18 months will be deleted. Thereafter gallery images older than 18 months will be deleted on a regular basis. Members probably have most of these old images backed up elsewhere in some form or another. If not, copy them before July 1st!

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Stephen
 
Im fine with that. Most are on my website anyway and I have been meaning to delete them here, but its a long process to delete them all so go for it, it'll save me time. Thanks!
 
Uh, might I suggest some kind of a re-thinking of this?

I have what I believe far fewer images than many, but yes, some are more than 18 months old.

I would like to see something that's more fair to those who use a smaller amount of the disk space.
 
An alternate approach that may be better, is limiting the gallery space of each member. Some members abuse the limitless space by posting everything without editing.
 
I think limiting number of free images posted could solve this. This could also improve the quality of the images posted as people may become more selective as to what the chose to display. If someone wants to post more - it could be made as a "paid for " option. Just like flickr does.
 
It is an unfortunate compromise, but perhaps this will encourage more posting and viewing in the gallery. The gallery will remain fresh and changing.

I looked at the photos I have marked as favorites. Many will be trimmed, but there are new ones every day.
 
I notice quite often there will be five duplicate images posted ... obviously the member wants them in different personal galleries. This has always irked me and it should have been stopped ages ago ... that is a chronic waste of space!

As for the trimming process after eighteen months ... I have no problem with that. I'm sure we all have our personal hosting sites that we favour ... flickr, photobucket etc! It's not like we're going to lose anything. 🙂
 
Krosya said:
I think limiting number of free images posted could solve this. This could also improve the quality of the images posted as people may become more selective as to what the chose to display. If someone wants to post more - it could be made as a "paid for " option. Just like flickr does.
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Isn't Flickr is free to a point?
 
Krosya said:
Exactly - and thats what I proposed to do here. 200 pics free - everything else at a price (thats how flickr does it).
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Good idea Krosya, I am with you on this idea. Just because an image is older than 18 months does not mean that it's a bad image after all...
 
sepiareverb said:
Because it is easier. This is a business not anything else.
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If a culling routine or macro is being devised, having it ignore galleries with less than a certain amount of data storage is likely easy.

And regarding this being a business - a good portion of my small gallery was made using glass sold by the innkeeper. Does it make sense to delete those photos and keep others?

(It really doesn't make any difference to me - I can always repost things I want to keep on display.)
 
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