We have some Good news and some Bad news and need your help...

[Adina P]

We have some good news and bad news about DoodleKisses.com.

The good news is that we plan for DoodleKisses.com to continue on happily supplying us all with our doodle addiction.

The bad news is that the company that runs our website platform recently increased prices exponentially based on site data storage. They did this with very little advanced notice so we have a very short time to make some changes. Our choices are to either pay the new fee with it’s over ten-fold increase in monthly costs OR decrease the amount of old data we have stored.

We are choosing to decrease old files we have stored. Mostly because we think we can do this without any real difference in how you experience DK. We will be making a few changes to decrease our site data storage and we need your help in the next two weeks. Our goal is to remove 5 GB of data. To put this in perspective, it’s about 1% of what our site contains. We will keep you posted on our progress. The main culprits are videos and photos.

Deleting discussions is not something we will be doing as it has almost no impact on the amount of data stored. Words and discussions just aren’t big files! We plan to do this reduction in phases where we only move on to the next phase ONLY if we have not decreased our data storage sufficiently with the actions thus far.

Phase One: Ask members to remove redundant / old photos and videos that you have uploaded. We don’t want you to remove your good stuff! We just want to remove files if you have multiple similar images/videos, etc. If we reduce enough here, we’re done!

Phase Two: If we need further cuts, we will dig deeper with your own personal cuts. Again, we really don’t want to remove anything useful or good. Just old extraneous stuff. Start identifying old and low quality images/videos from long inactive members and removing those.

Phase Three: We as admins will remove videos and photos we see as extraneous.

We’ll keep you posted on how we are doing. Thank you for your understanding and help!

Adina & Clark

[charlotte bednarsh]

I just love Doodlekisses and all the amazing members.  Whatever it takes, please make certain this group keeps going strong!  

[BG and Gavin]

I agree Charley!

[ClarkP]

Never fret!  It's here to stay.  :-)

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

Just deleted my three videos and most of my pictures.  Fortunately, I didn't have very many as I had to delete one by one.  For those with LOTS of pictures, is there a way to delete in multiples??

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

OH NO!  

We must stay. We must figure out a way to continue to be together, here, On DK

[Carol and Banjo]

Joanne,  you won't be able to get rid of me that easy!

[Carol and Banjo]

I've begun to delete videos and will do photos as well.    I've always felt a bit guilty....being a photo hog...lol.    I don't mind deleting content at all.....but I do wish it was quicker and easier to do.     It'll probably take me a few days to go through.  

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Ok - I deleted videos and half of my photos.  Yikes.

[charlotte bednarsh]

I don't have many photos, but I've deleted lots of them.  I hope this helps.  This group is just so very important, so whatever it takes, I will do.

[Carol and Banjo]

I tried to delete my music and can't for the life of me figure out how to.     Also, it's very tedious deleting photos one by one.   I have over 800 (I know...piggy).....is there a quick way to do this?

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Carol ~ it is quick and easy to delete music files.  Go to your page, scroll down to your music files which should be right below your friends lists.  At the very bottom of the music box, you will see a plus sign (+) Add music, and to the right of that is a Facebook insignia - and to the right of the Facebook square is an orange object - click on it and all your music file come up and you can just "x" them out.  Super quick.  I wish it was as easy to delete out photos!

[Carol and Banjo]

Thank you Linda!!!!