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Originally Posted by Maximo  One of the disadvantages of things like Photobucket is that pictures can be taken down or moved around, and then threads in the forum are littered with "No Image" or something like that.
I like that I can go back to really old threads on YT and I am guaranteed to see the pictures that were posted. |
Yes, as Maximo says, we made a decision long ago to store our own images on our server, even though it takes up a huge amount of space, especially now with over 370,000 images. We have seen many forums over time with threads with invalid pictures when the IMG tag is used because web sites go down, the links change, or some other reason. We have always believed it is more beneficial for our members and our community to always have that picture available (even though it may cause a bit more hassle). Members are still free to link to images hosted elsewhere in posts and threads.