Dae said:
pmat said:
i would almost reccommend people NOT use photobucket, its pretty annoying when you have a problem, search, find a thread that solves it, and the pictures are gone because photobucket deletes em after a certain amount of time.
I have been using photobucket for years without it removing any photos of mine. Even after years of inactivity.
From experience the only time you'll see missing pictures, is if the author/poster deleted the picture, or moved it to a new directory/folder. Or if they deleted their account.
I'll agree with pmat.
Because regardless of what the reason is for the images disappearing, way too often, they do disappear. And this happens more often with photobucket images than with any others.
It is annoying, and frustrating when you find a thread that
could be helpfu, but the images have disappeared, and the thread becomes almost worthless.
An astounding number of the threads in the "hall of fame" are pretty much completely worthless because all the pics have disappeared.
IMO the best way to have threads that remain useful, on this forum, would be for the admins to enable uploading of images, for every time you make a post. No matter where it is on the forum.
If you want to save space, enable for .jpg, .gif, and .png only. And no other file types. (No text, no zip, no pdf, etc.) They can even impose a file size limit. Like one meg per image.