TRX wrote:
firebat45 wrote:
Plus, once you've started a picture hosting account, you never need to learn how to post pictures on any new forums you join, or deal with size limits, since you've saved them all in one place.
...which will usually go away in a year to eighteen months if you don't send them money or regularly access the account.
When I join a new forum I usually go to the oldest threads first (I want information, after all, that's why I signed up...) and step back forward. For a few forums, the archives are more useless than not. Something way cool was shown and discussed back in '03, but all the pictures are little square 404 blocks now, and the user who posted them hasn't logged in since '07, for example.
I've never paid for picture hosting, and still have my flickr and photobucket accounts, both of which went years at a time with no logins. No lost pictures. Most of those 404'd pictures you see is people deleting old photos off their account. I do agree that it's annoying though, not being able to see the photos.
I can't stand having to log in to view pictures on a forum, which is the way 99% of them do it (not LocostUSA). It also costs LocostUSA more in hosting, having the pictures on here instead of off-site. Especially since they do display them to everyone, not just logged in members.
Photobucket and flickr will also resize your photos for you. You can crop them once uploaded, edit them, add text, etc. IMHO, this site is focused towards Locost discussion, and a photo-sharing site is focused towards sharing photos. Let each do what they were designed for.