******.de issue...

[Mr. Bean]

I'm just wondering, as i used ******.de, for my images, i noticed the other day that the links were altered.

WHY??

[KoenigseggBG]

a.b.l.o.a.d_de has been blocked for now due to a mass of people using it's quirks to post images of any size and disregarding the image posting rules basically. It seems to have spread this technique as a lot of different nationalities are using it so we're putting a stop to it until we can get something sorted regarding it.

 

That!

[t.]

Can someone fill me in on why it was so popular, besides the clever trick about image size? I'd always thought it was a pretty crappy host tbh.

[KoenigseggBG]

I don't know either. But I know that it also has some pop-ups with sexual content and etc. Another reason for it to be banned from here.

[Iced_Bullet]

What exactly was the trick. I'm a little confussed ... But then again it doesn't take much these days!

[t.]

You could use the image host to post images over the forum limits or something, I didn't really get it but Diablo did. Probably explains why the rest of us don't get it. :P

[Ryzza5]

From what I've heard, some members were using a trick to prevent the inbuilt systems here from being able to read the size of the image.

[Andreas¹]

If you right clicked and went to properties on a link from that site, it would just say 0 on both dimensions and filesize. ;) The only way to check was to right click, copy the link and open it in another tab, and that just made a whole mess of things. :p

[Iced_Bullet]

Oh right... Didn't know this place has an auto image-size detector thingy-me-bobby! :o

[Camel]

Yea, as I've already explained to him and several other people. Some members were using this host to host images that were way over the filesize limit and the only way to see their size was too either download each image or copy the image location and paste in another tab.

 

Quite a few members who weren't German and who couldn't even speak a single word of German were using the host for their images to break the rules. And would no stop after several PMs about it.