The LNER Encyclopedia

Does anyone know if anything has happened to Fotopic?? I cannot get on my site,and a friend of mine who has his own site cannot get on either.It may only be a small thing with what is going on at the moment,but it seems odd it has just disappeared without a word.

I have known the webpages to go offline for a day or two in the past, for server upgrades or similar I think.

Fotopic have had several long outages, for various reasons, in the past.
This current one is one of the longest I can remember.

As yet, no conclusive information has been made available - there are lots of different theories (rumours!) as to what is going on......

I shall wait and see......

Having asked others the same question, I received this link to read. Interesting.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotopic.net

Keith

Thanks fellas,can you recommend anything else if Fotopic has gone??

I set up a Flickr account last time Fotopic went down. I'm going to use that again, even though it's not as good as Fotopic was. From the info I got, the guy that started Fotopic is starting a new company. The address is www,pikfu.com. It's not on-line yet but they are asking for volunteers to be part of a closed beta-test.

Keith

Thanks Keith,i've sent them my e-mail.We'll see what happens with that!! Dave

Confirmed at last that Fotopic has gone. Attached are the statements that Amateur Photographer have sent out.
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/ne ... 06605.html

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/ne ... 06622.html

Keith

I gave up waiting for fotopic to re-appear (but I would like to get my text back, as I had backups for most of the images) and went for flickr on 22 March.

So far I've redone slightly over half of the most important images......

for an interesting update see

http://fotopic.net/

Thanks stoneroad-i've subscribed to the newsletter.One thing,user id--is that the name at the top of the homepage-that's what i put anyway!!!!Just got to wait and see what happens i suppose!!!!

was......... ernies northumbrian railway archive.
......... northumbrian railways.
......... disused railways. all on fotopic as i do not appear to get onto these websites.

there are a lot of "lost" fotopic sites at the moment.

some users have gone to others hosting sites, in my case - Flickr - but others include smugmug, photobucket, zenfolio, coppermine, and one or two brave souls are having a go at their own website. others will not be back....

third-rail wrote:was......... ernies northumbrian railway archive.
......... northumbrian railways.
......... disused railways. all on fotopic as i do not appear to get onto these websites.

Ernies photos, and many he has added recently can now be found at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/

Hope this is some use.

Also all mine from fotopic are now at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwf2009/

David

With Fotopic's alleged access for former account holders to retrieve images apparently due to expire at the end of tomorrow (28/02/13), has anyone tred to gettheir pics back, and been either successful, or more importantly to me, found themseles unable to access the pics?

Since the access being limited to account holders' name ranges, apparently, and secretly(?), becoming an all-embracing A to Z, I've tried accessing a few times, and again since a recent reminder email from fotopic of access ending shortly (which included an encryption of a password together with a link to a weird-looking de-cryption website which seems unclear and convoluted to utilise).
But despite trying to log-in with the correct username and trying as password, both the (dubious?) results of the de-cryption, and my proper password, access continues to be unsuccessful.
I did try a reply to the recent email abut en days ago, descibing my problem, but, no reply.

Does anyone have any comments or tips please?