Thumbsnap pics on PH

[v8250]

All, have just copied a Brooklands pic of a car on the test hill; copied to desktop, then to PH. PH naturally takes a link copy to Thumbsnap. When I rechecked this on Thumbsnap the Brooklands pic was linked to a pile of porn-type pics. Is there a problem with Thumbsnap, PH, or could this be associated with the Flickr page where I copied the pic?? Sensible answers please, thank you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47661552@N00/favorite...

[MattDell]

Completely unacceptable.

I have contacted Thumbsnap and awaiting a reply. Apologies for this.

-Matt

[v8250]

thanks Matt. Interestingly it may be that the following thread also has this problem as noted by other PH'ers yesterday

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[MattDell]

They've responded:

Thumbsnap said:

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It seems the related images algorithm had a (pretty severe from the looks of it) bug that was causing completely unrelated and possibly 'adult' images to show up.

We've disabled the function altogether until we can find and fix the error so you should no longer see such material. There may be still a page or 2 that still exists in our cache but they should all be gone within a few minutes at most.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

So they've disabled it for now while they fix it. Sorry for that!

-Matt