Jett wrote:
This forum is pretty cool, I like the specific area and population for us liberty crd people, but the admins have abandoned us, and we are left drifting in the digital abyss which kinda sucks,
What specifically do you mean by this? It's a pretty broad statement, so am not totally sure what you're driving at.
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and also we can’t post pics.
Use
https://imgur.com . They allow hotlinking photos they're storing without needing a paid account.
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So should we be migrating to another platform where we can better exist with pics? I like posting images direct, I don’t have an image hosting plan with any other image sites and I object to that practice anyway because it too easily separates the images from their related content year down the road.
Not speaking as an administrator, because I'm not one - but I am someone who has had to admin phpbb installations in the past.
Regardless of the forum software being used, image storage is a HUGE pain. It increases the amount of storage space needed by a very significant amount, adds to processing and network loads when serving the images, and ultimately requires purchasing either beefier server platforms or spending more on cloud-based hosting. There is no cheap-to-free solution for this when doing it in volume for hundreds of users.
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This info collection is too valuable to let rude and obnoxious companies like photofucket to ruin like they did to untold numbers of valuable threads across the entire world. Anyway just a thought.
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I understand where you're coming from this, but that's the danger of any external hosting service (including imgur, which I fully admit to recommending). We can't control that.