Imagebam blows!

[cmfriend]

your mother blows

 

[yakovitch]

Well, whatever reason Imagebam was down for a week ago it certainly wasn't to address this ongoing issue of dead pics. Therefore, I would like to politely ask those of you who prefer to use Imagebam (and Imagevenue as well, since they have the same problem) if you could please check your links after you've Dead Link Removed them to make sure they were all successful. I, for one, would be most appreciative of such consideration.

 

[yakovitch]

My hatred of imagebam grows with each passing day... they have become the worst, most unstable, ad-infested piece of shit popular image hoster out there right now. They have done nothing about the problem of dead links immediately after uploading them, and for the past couple of days many other links load/download at a frickin' snails pace. I've also come across a few pics that are only partially there. It has taken almost two & a half hours to download less than 100 pics from imagebam this morning, I shit you not! Fucking ridiculous.

 

[Ptenisnet]

I will check out some image pages without a pop up blocker to see how bad it really is. I use firefox with adblock plus and adblock plus popup addon... I don't see any ads.

The fact is almost all of these imagehosts have ads on their pages. We will resort to banning an imagehost only if the ads are excessive and/or if they contain viruses/malicious code.

 

[yakovitch]

I will check out some image pages without a pop up blocker to see how bad it really is. I use firefox with adblock plus and adblock plus popup addon... I don't see any ads.

The fact is almost all of these imagehosts have ads on their pages. We will resort to banning an imagehost only if the ads are excessive and/or if they contain viruses/malicious code.

Well the ads are annoying, but what really bothers me is that they seem more concerned about making money off of us as we look at pics than doing anything about their deteriorating usefulness. They were down for several hours a few weeks ago, and then about 2 hours yesterday, but the only changes apparent to me are... more ads. I'd love to strike up an old fashioned boycott of them, but I think there's too many apathetic people for that to happen.


*Edited to give an example of a partial pic, for those who haven't come across one yet: http://www.imagebam.com/image/8a3378200177135

 

[Ptenisnet]

Well the ads are annoying, but what really bothers me is that they seem more concerned about making money off of us as we look at pics than doing anything about their deteriorating usefulness. They were down for several hours a few weeks ago, and then about 2 hours yesterday, but the only changes apparent to me are... more ads. I'd love to strike up an old fashioned boycott of them, but I think there's too many apathetic people for that to happen.


*Edited to give an example of a partial pic, for those who haven't come across one yet: http://www.imagebam.com/image/8a3378200177135

This image page is taking forever to load...not a good sign.
For some odd reason, they seem to be promoting imagebox instead of fixing existing issues in imagebam.

 

[yakovitch]

For some odd reason, they seem to be promoting imagebox instead of fixing existing issues in imagebam.

Anything for a buck, I guess. But not a lot of foresight, as is so often the case.

 

[yakovitch]

I just want to reiterate how much I hate imagebam. If it works fine for you, consider yourself lucky... it just took about 45 minutes to grab the pics from 11 new posts in the Vickie Powell thread , and there was 9 or 10 failures as well. It's quite possible that downloading images from imagebam takes up more time than anything else I do here. And that is an absurd scenario.

 

[yakovitch]

I haven't experienced that, but I will agree that imagebam really does fucking blow. For all the "upgrades" they were supposedly working on, I find their reliability as shitty as ever. Second only to imagevenue - no other popular hosts are even close to the percentage of dead links as these two.

 

[luddite]

Is it just my computer, but, everytime I open up a picture on imagebam my anti-virus software keeps saying it has blocked some malicious program/attack? It seems that every gallery I open on their site is infected - talk about imagebam blows.

Imgbox & imagevenue don't give me alerts, has anyone else experienced this?

I don't have a problem, but I did see a thread about it on another site. The poster sent an email to imagerbam, and got the reply that it was due to them working on their servers. I think the poster was in England,

They have been working on their servers for 6 months already.

 

[GrapJ]

I would love to test this

The loadtime of this thread (Imagebam blows! ) is 1 second now

take 100 pics (random from threads) and see if they show.
Please be advised: i keep a 10% faults accepted policy.
On reloading the page you should be able to see
- how fast it goes
- if all pics (and thumbs) are visible
- if it is reachable
but i don't know how to get the result of a ping inhere.

First the ping (manually)

pinging 67.202.120.209 OK 134ms
subsystem at p4.imagebam.com (199.115.119.84), several found, end search.

I dont have the formula ready yet but it goes something like this

100 = amount of pics
sP = Size or weight of the single pic , approximately 10K = 10.000 bytes.

with the missing step we would be able to predict the loadtime of that post (110 pics)

i think that i could be 3 seconds

if that varies a lot then there is a reason to discuss it

Trying to find 100 random IB pics...









anybody have more???
Careful , we must keep this on one page.......





editing...........

 

[Rooftop]

I would love to test this
The loadtime of this thread (Imagebam blows! ) is 1 second now

Surely the load time of the page has more to do with the speeds of your ISP and web browser and computer than the content of the pictures? Or am I being thick?

 

[luddite]

Sorry I had to edit most of the quote - what has that got to do with viral threats @ imagebam?

I looked at the other site, apparently it is one of the ads that is causing the alarm to go off.

That doesn't explain the slow loading and missing pics.

 

[yakovitch]

Imagebam seems to be up & down for me today... damn they are unstable. This is actually about some other hosts, though. First of all, tutushost appears to be gone for good. This message appears when clicking on their link "NOTICE: This domain name expired on 10/23/2012 and is pending renewal or deletion."

Link: http://www.tutushost.info/Pics/Dviewer.php?file=S1/1909_001_abn63mu.jpg


Next, celebsxtreme's links have been down for a few days now... not sure if they're doing some maintenance or if they've been affected by the storm in the northeast U.S. (as imagebox is claiming is the reason they were down a couple days). Hopefully, they'll be back without loss. There's a significant amount of quality posts from the past that could be gone if one or both of these hosts have shit the bed.


In the relative newcomer category we have hotpicx - which, since I've been aware of them, links to that host are down way more often than they are working. It's been a few days since I've seen a working link, and today they have a new message "This server is in maintenance mode. Refresh this page in some minutes." Seems like another sketchy host to me.

Just thought I'd mention this in case anyone was wondering what the deal is with the large amount of dead posts (particularly in various threads in the Celebrity Pictures section).