Making images show

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by cletrac

Hanno, do those thumbnails really save anything? After all, the image is already on MLUs server taking up the space, so what difference would it make? If I put my images on Photobucket or the like and something happens to my account, those images go up in cybersmoke and you're left with a useless link on the forum post and valuable info disappears.

David, yes it does. While the storage of data costs money, the real money is in the bandwidth used to transfer data from the server to your home PC. If you do not want to risk loosing an image hosted elsewhere, attach it here and provide a link to a larger photo via any image hosting site - that's what they are there for.

Some forum users have remarked they like the thumbnails because it costs less time to view a thread (especially those with slow connections). That is a factor to take into consideration also.

Thanks & regards,
Hanno