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

[Adina P]

Thanks everyone!  We are now 2.5 Gigs under our limit.  It doesn't seem like much, but it took a lot of deleting spread out between all of us to get there.  So we are quite safe before the end of the year when the change takes place!  We can quickly max out again if we, admins, don't continue deleting old content, so we'll continue to do so.

[Diane and Alma]

I have been doing the Holiday Card Exchange for years.  These groups still show up in My Groups.  Will "leaving" (deleting) them help?

[Adina P]

The only thing we need removed are things you have added to the site. Groups are not member additions. They don't take up much storage space. Photos, videos, and music is what we are focusing on.

[DJ & Chance]

Can anyone tell me how to delete my music file?  Sorry for being so clueless.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

DJ, underneath your list of songs, to the right of where it says "Add Music", you should see a little icon that looks like a pencil, Click on that, it allows you to edit your playlist, delete songs, etc. 

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

I didn't have much posted in pictures, but I did take out half and took out the music.  No videos to take out.

This seems a very time intensive process to hand delete each non participating members photos.  Is there anyway some of us could be assigned one or two to hand delete to help you out?

[Lynne]

I am not active, but rely on advice, experiences of others etc. I checked the best I know how to delete anything I could. Feel free to delete if u find anything from me that will help. Also, I will be glad to help donate financially. Just let me know. Love yall and this site. I'll do all I can to help. God bless

[Adina P]

Thank you Lynne, that's very kind.  Additional financial support is not necessary...we would just be charged a ridiculous amount if we didn't make these changes.

[Lucy , Alex and Madison]

I enjoy the member stories and pics. Keep this site going anyway possible.

[Pam & Trixie]

I deleted a bunch of photos yesterday. 

I will wait to see if more space is needed before I delete more stuff from my page.

Just removed a handful of songs.

[Kaitlin and Ludo]

Deleted some of my redundant photos!

[Diane Marra]

thanks for letting me know, I deleted over 25 pictures from my total 58 Hope it helps. thanks for all you do