mosquito
Well Known Member
I know that this has been mentioned many times, but I'd like to add another voice to the choir. We are losing our heritage with disappearing images. Seems like much of the stuff I search for has images that are no longer hosted, severely limiting the usefulness of the remaining content. Take this thread: http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=27150 ...and many, many more.
Ideally, I think the existing/remaining images on VAF should all be scraped and archived somewhere, and I'd be happy to help with that effort if it all possible, it's the sort of thing I spend my days doing.
It may be that inclusion of a photo in a VAF post doesn't grant a perpetual license for the site to use that image. That could be problematic for saving heritage images. If that's the case, perhaps a change to the sites' TOS going forward could at least allow images from 2016 and newer to be archived, or perhaps even retroactively for site members.
I understand the bandwidth concerns, but it is not an insurmountable problem. Stuff to think about. The memory hole is killing me.
-jon
Ideally, I think the existing/remaining images on VAF should all be scraped and archived somewhere, and I'd be happy to help with that effort if it all possible, it's the sort of thing I spend my days doing.
It may be that inclusion of a photo in a VAF post doesn't grant a perpetual license for the site to use that image. That could be problematic for saving heritage images. If that's the case, perhaps a change to the sites' TOS going forward could at least allow images from 2016 and newer to be archived, or perhaps even retroactively for site members.
I understand the bandwidth concerns, but it is not an insurmountable problem. Stuff to think about. The memory hole is killing me.
-jon