In case you haven't made it yet, I'm sure your time will roll around soon enough... if it doesn't, why not take a trip into a timezone where it's actually started and join in with the rest of us.
Regardless, Happy New Year (or if you're me, Happy Nude Year)!
Now onto the important stuff:
There seems to be a bit of trouble with Pixspot at the moment.
I'm not entirely sure how this came about, but lately, anyone trying to include the image in their post or even link to the image via a url link to the image will result in the user being greeted with the following image:
I'm not entirely sure what's going on here and can only guess that the people at Pixspot have made some changes that are seriously affecting our users.
Coincidentally, I have found a way around the problem.
If you view and then save the image (usually done by right clickingand viewing the image at its actual link (or by clicking at a url designated for it) and saving the image that way), the image downloads with no problems.
This, however, is not a solution but rather just a way around the problem.
In the meantime, I'm suggesting that users do not use Pixspot for their image hosting on this forum as it quite simply doesn't work right now.
There are a few discussions on this at the moment, namely this one where Scott (MHD) has donated a discount code for use with the people we use for the site, Dreamhost, and this one where someone is trying to decide if they should pick between Smugmug and Dreamhost.
If you do pick Smugmug, be aware that you can use one of the discount codes provided by our generous users as well as join the DSLR Users Community, which is the 3rd largest community on Smugmug.
There are a lot of other options out there, mind you, if you're looking at space to store your photos.
Smugmug and Dreamhost are at the top of the list because of how many of our members use them and the discounts these members are providing to you, the members of this board.
People who haven't realised it yet should also look to their ISP as you're more than likely to have some web space that's probably going by unused.
We here at DSLR Users are aware that not everyone can pay for for online image storage so in the new year -- which is the one we're currently in -- I expect that we'll probably look at investigating a means of online image storage for our members who don't have one.
No promises here, but I imagine that this is something that we'll have to consider further down the track.
