Thanks Brian, I appreciate this very much! =D>
by member JohnM:
I preferred posting pictures to the forum server only because it will always be available for research for all of our members as opposed to other sites that may not always be available.
I also agree with you John, as Brian states as well.
As a side note on this, a couple days ago I was viewing one of our member's photobucket images he posted on an older thread. (Remember, we have to now click on them to go directly to the photo bucket web site to view the photos clearly, and not all blurry like they appear on here.) It was not our forum member's fault, but what happened when I was clicking on the photos took me Totally By Surprise. Guess what happened on the photobucket website??? That lousy website has pop-ups on it for advertising, and
Thank God my Norton Anti-Virus caught and Blocked a malicious pop-up that came through on that piece of garbage photobucket web site.
I also do not normally get any pop-ups on my browser because of the setting level I have selected.
So to me this is one more big reason as to why I believe it is in the best interest of this forum, if at all possible, to continue hosting our own photos directly on here. We never know what fiasco may lie ahead of us with outside photo hosting sites, and the way they may change the rules of the game in the future, just as photo bucket chose to do to us here that sadly wreaked disaster with so many of our important information threads on this fantastic forum. Sadly we lost a lot of superb information on some of those old outside photo hosted threads that now are almost useless without the photos on them.
Best Regards,
Alan