I lost everything I had on Astrobin but not much in the way of quality or quantity, and of course I have all my originals on my computer. What I like about Astrobin is not that it stored my images well (I do that anyway) but rather that it has (or had) so many amazing high resolution images to compare my own images to that a quick search would soon reveal obvious or subtle flaws. With recent re-uploads I would say this is probably still the case. Understand anger, annoyance etc. as I also used my gallery as a kind of linked in, online, high resolution photo album, but to me it seems wiser to begin to regather the images that made the community special and functional. I feel like I’m paying Salvatore to facilitate a process rather than to just be a data manger, which is where my forgiveness lies.
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