Image Shack now promoting Poker Parties

Stinkie

Yeah ... it's ImageShack. I got Safari set to block pop-ups, bet nevertheless I get one whenever I visit IS. I'll be using another image host from now on. Suggestions, anyone?

Gaieus

Picasa? It's pretty fast (for me at least).

The "Fearless Four": Kelly, Ross, me and Mike on our after-BaseCamp tour to San Francisco

redot

Great. I've just signed up to Imageshack and posted my first pics in the gallery with it.
Picassa you say...?

boofredlay

Bruce, I am surprised you did not punch them in the face,
it seems to be your standard response.

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=100012#p100012
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=33293#p33293

I will ask Coen if there is anything we can do on our end

Gaieus

I've been trying to click on every Imageshack link here but get nopopups at all.

Basic settings in FF 3 (without any special popup blockers).

solo

I use Imageshack for all my posted images, I also clicked on every Imageshack link and embedded image I could find without a popup, I use Imageshack on 7 other forums with no complaints so far so I'm lost here guys.

I have used Imageshack for three years and will continue to as the service has been great, I will however stop posting images here until this issue is resolved.

tomsdesk

Here's what I get (and don't really understand it):

I have never had the popup on exit, but when clicking on the posted thumbnails I often get a popup blocker "I blocked it" message AND a popup hidden on the taskbar (mostly for a web tv site...probably since I recently quit my paper and have been going online for the listings).
And Pete, your images are big, 800x???...but linked to the imageshack main site, not to your image.

So I'm wondering if the answer is in the linking method.

alpro

I have also been getting pop ups when looking at images on image shack, just a little differently, when I click on a image on the forum that links to image shack no problems, however when I click see full image while viewing in image shack, bam pop up.

Mike

Edit, didn't notice till I reread this post, Im getting popups in a similiar fashion as tom, wasn't sure if I explained it well

richcat

It does only seem to happen with the thumbnails and is initiated by clicking on these to resize them and not linked to full images such as Petes or others - just the thumbnails ones - which is some good news. Also when hovering over re-size image it says "Click to visit ImageShack for image hosting", when I click nothing happens but makes the enlarged existing image fit my window width?

Out of curiosity I tried another machine with identical software FF3.03 and Norton and set for no popups and guess what - I'm having the same experience as Pete, Gaieus and Bruce’s home machine, no popup block warning and no popups appear as well as no banners. Even more curious hovering over re-size image it says "Click to visit ImageShack for image hosting", when I click nothing happens. I turned off popup block and tried again but with same result no pop ups and no warnings???

However more good news for those wanting to view the thumbnail images in peace I found a temp work around by deselecting JavaScript in FF3.03 Tools - Options - no more pop ups and no more banners adverts, but it does stop you putting in similes and may effect the viewing and operation of other sites you visit, but you can always turn it back on and reload the page. Turning off JavaScript does however let you get to the ImageShack image hosting page???

tomsdesk

Yesterday I got a dating popup that popped an "are you sure you don't want to met your dream-date" loop that wouldn't end...had to use task manager to end the iexplore task.

solo

Tom,

That's a sign ... time to meet your dream date, forget about politics and get laid.

tomsdesk

Pete, that'll have to wait...I'm still pretty sore from the politics.

Gaieus

@unknownuser said:

I am still getting my daily dose of Party Poker....

Coen....Have you made a decision on this as I thought I would add a pop-up to my image server....nothing wrong with a little spam I guess and the rest of us should be able to take advantage of this advertising opp....or is this just exclusivly for Image Shack.....are they paying us for this??

I don't know Bruce if they are paying YOU for this but they definitely not paying US!

And please, don't again rename the topic as "SCF... is promoting..." We are not and I simply don't understand this ranting of yours with US who have never done anything like this.

remus

Bruce, i think you might be being a little hasty.

If SCF was to block imageshack a huge swathe of the gallery (and other parts of the site) would become useless.

You must also remeber that this issue is only occuring for a portion of people, so any decision is going to have to be a balance.

Alan Fraser

I just tested it on the first image in this thread http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=13573
and definitely get a poker pop up. So it appears to be a factor of linked images.
Having closed the pop up, I don't get any more in a particular session.

remus

SCF isnt meant to be a hosting site for your personal work, it is a forum where people discuss sketchup. I also believe that you havent gotten the measure of the peopel running the SCF.

remus

Well it isnt. SCF has a gallery where you can display your work for discussion, but it isnt meant to be somewhere were you should direct people to view your work, thats just not what its for.

remus

On a related note, it might be soemthign to with this:

@unknownuser said:

The Indigo site is back online.

The Indigo site was compromised a couple of weeks ago, probably through a Wordpress vunerability.

The purpose of the hack was apparently to insert links to poker sites into some pages. None of the files available for download seem to have been touched.

Since then, it's been offline while I reinstalled and updated the site software (Joomla, PhpBB etc..)

Some functions such as the artwork gallery and material database are still disabled, but will be reenabled soon.

Thanks for your patience,

Nick Chapman

remus

Bruce, i dont take any offence at you reporting the issue and being rightly annoyed by it.

What i do find very annoying is you accusing the admin team of doing it on purpose.

Gaieus

Well, Bruce, whatever your intentions are/were, with your words you have been accusing us for spreading spam. We cannot help if an external site uses spam and you should be grown up enough to deal with in on one hand and to make the difference who is spamming.

So much about it and I am done with this issue - should you be blocking SFC (or the domain) or not.