SCOBY

Why is this, ive registered and all i get is an orange smiley..

SCOBY

ChrisB

I believe due to using lots of bandwidth, Turbosport are restricting the web sites that can display pictures via the uploader.

Chris.

Brun

Does that mean Turbosport will not be coming back online for Scoobynet full stop?

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

I thought Scoobynet paid for the service ?

StickyMicky

i think everybody in the world abused turbo sport and now they arnt happy lol

SCOBY

Has anyone found another site, ive registered with fotopic, but it looks a bit too in depth.

SCOBY

Phil

This shoud be a pic of my car uploaded to turbosport so something is a miss

[Edited by phil_stephens - 4/24/2003 9:25:42 PM]

Phil

I emailed Slim the webmaster over at TurboSport cut and pasted the email word for word

no problem,



to cut a long story short the way the bandwidth is charged is being changed so to run the uploader as it was would cost us £500/month so you can see why it is being stopped.



no, no objections at all.



Of course you do know that you can post pics on turbosport in the Scooby section and then link to the post from Scoobynet, just an idea.



Regards

Slim



-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Stephens [mailto:Phil_Stephens@titandial.net]
Sent: 24 April 2003 21:44
To: 'Mick Eveleigh'
Subject: RE: Scoobynet



Cheers for the prompt response Slim



Don't understand Bandwidth but I know its expensive



Any objections in me posting this on Scoobynet ?



Its the latest hot topic would nail it once and for all



But its up to you



Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Mick Eveleigh [mailto:mick.eveleigh@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 24 April 2003 21:37
To: 'Phil Stephens'
Subject: RE: Scoobynet

Hi Phil,



Sorrry, no you cannot use it any more, this may or may not be a permanent thing, as of yet we are still unsure.



Regards

Slim



-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Stephens [mailto:Phil_Stephens@titandial.net]
Sent: 24 April 2003 21:36
To: admin@turbosport.co.uk
Subject: Scoobynet



Hi



I bet you have been asked this question a lot but is Scoobynet no longer a site that your uploader will work for



I uploaded a pic of my car and and an angry smilie appears on scoobynet



Can you confirm or deny



Thanks in advance





Phil

dhorwich

So whats scoobynet going to do about this..????

Dan

:Mike:

Why should scoobynet do ANYTHING about this?

95% of uk ISP accounts give you FREE WEBSPACE.

All you need to do is take responsibility and use it, not rely on someone to offer an easy uploader service at their expense.

Sorry if my reply seems a little touchy, but it really annoys me to see people complaining that a free service has been withdrawn when they have a perfectly good alternative but can't be bothered to use it.

FTP'ing is really very easy, and most ISPs will explain it on their homepage.

[Edited by :Mike: - 4/24/2003 10:27:01 PM]

dhorwich

:Mike:

Believe it or not mate not everyone knows what or means..!!!

Scoobynet has a large community and if turbosport can offer this service why cant scoobynet... Im about to send off my money for scoobynet plus membership and knowing i can posts pics on here would be a great benefit..

Dan

IanW

Dont forget guys that ScoobyNet also has to pay for its bandwidth too, and I would assume that we manage to use a fair bit as well.

dhorwich

IanW,

Where does the money come from though..?? the moderators back pockets..???? 'advertising' must generate alot of money that pays towards this..????

If anyone had to pay for this i.e to keep it running i doubt it would be here..!

Dan

:Mike:

ISP = Internet Service Provide - The people you connect to the internet with, e.g. Freeserve, ntlworld, BTOpenworld, Pipex etc.

FTP = File Transfer Protocol. If your ISP gives you webspace you will need a way of getting your website / files onto it. For this you upload via FTP, which tends to be known as FTPing.

In the majority of cases it's very easy. All you'll need to find out from your ISP (or their help pages in most cases) is:

* Your webspace username (typically the username of your mail email account)
* Your password
* The upload server address
* Your website address

Once you have those 4 bits of information, just open another browser window and pop this into the address bar (removing the < > brackets and spaces, and replacing with your own information):

ftp:// < username > : < password > @ < upload server address >

This will log you into you FTP space, ie the space on the webserver to which you can upload your files. To upload, simply drag & drop or copy and & paste the files onto this window, like you would with any other drive in windows.
That uploads the files, simple as that.

The files will then show on your webspace, so just link to those files in the same way you would have linked to an image on turbosport.

So, to give an example, if you're an ntlworld customer, then you can upload at:
ftp://myusername:mypassword@upload.ntlworld.com

You can then see those files at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/myusername

And you can then include an image hosted on your website in a post on scoobynet by putting this in your post (removing the spaces)
[ img ]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/myusername/mypicture.jpg [ /img ]

Hope that helps...


[Edit] Forgot to mention, by doing it this way, scoobynet do not get lumbered with the bandwidth cost. Each time the image loads it will be using your ISP's bandwidth, not scoobynet's. The text in here will be on scoobynet's bandwidth, but not remote-linked pictures. (hence pics here costing turbosport money at the moment...)

[Edited by :Mike: - 4/24/2003 11:04:10 PM]

Neil Smalley

Maybe someone could write a generic image uploadeder for our own webspaces.

E.g put in your home page address, user id and password
then up pops an upload window
you select the file and after it's downloaded it then gives you the BBS code to paste in.

It'd be worth a go for sure.

BTW Moving to Computing. As it's not really an SN issue, and neither is it a bug or feature request for SN.

[Edited by Neil Smalley - 4/24/2003 11:30:12 PM]

:Mike:

"BTW Moving to Computing. As it's not really an SN issue, and neither is it a bug or feature request for SN."

True, but it's a question that keeps being asked in the main forum sections...

CEL

iTrader: (1)

Have to agree with Mike, its pretty straight forward to upload your own pics using your own web space and since mike has explained how to do it in great detail u have no excuse

ScoobyDan

I really like the 'angry smiley' in phil_stephens' post, but I can't get a copy of it . IE6 tries to save it as a bmp, and it's not stored locally in cache.

Any ideas where I can get it from?

Thanks

Daniel