by oldfogy
29 Dec 2013, 15:35
From my experience, the kind of people who use forums such as this are older and not up to date with technology. It's more encouraging to make the process simpler and less complicated in order for them to utilise the forum fully. Facebook is a prime example, it makes posting content easy.
Mainluy it's just habbit, yes with what we were first introduced to and now becomes just second nature.
But yes in the main I agree, except there are advantages for posting this way, one of which is if the forum is locked for editing which on some forums they are although most do give some modicum of time before locking, then if I want to remove a picture then I can't, but with loading from the likes of Photobucket I simply remove the picture (or re-name it), obviously one draw-back with that is you start seeing posts with just a small RED letter X where the picture should be or a note saying it has been moved or removed.
But the main advantage is by being able to post BIG pictures like the one above, instead of using the attach facility which then usually only displays a smaller picture and in some (a lot) of instances the size tends to be not much bigger than a thumbnail size, probably due to forum settings.
Although the downside to the above method is it probably does use more bandwidth to display the larger picture, but not very sure on that score.
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EDIT.
Sorry I posted that above before I noticed there was a 2nd page with earlier posts explaining about the bandwidth etc.
However, one other plus for using the likes of Photobucket is that you get to see all the pictures at once instead of having to individually click each attachment, which if trying to compare any pictures, then that becomes awkward.
Mainluy it's just habbit, yes with what we were first introduced to and now becomes just second nature.
But yes in the main I agree, except there are advantages for posting this way, one of which is if the forum is locked for editing which on some forums they are although most do give some modicum of time before locking, then if I want to remove a picture then I can't, but with loading from the likes of Photobucket I simply remove the picture (or re-name it), obviously one draw-back with that is you start seeing posts with just a small RED letter X where the picture should be or a note saying it has been moved or removed.
But the main advantage is by being able to post BIG pictures like the one above, instead of using the attach facility which then usually only displays a smaller picture and in some (a lot) of instances the size tends to be not much bigger than a thumbnail size, probably due to forum settings.
Although the downside to the above method is it probably does use more bandwidth to display the larger picture, but not very sure on that score.
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EDIT.
Sorry I posted that above before I noticed there was a 2nd page with earlier posts explaining about the bandwidth etc.
However, one other plus for using the likes of Photobucket is that you get to see all the pictures at once instead of having to individually click each attachment, which if trying to compare any pictures, then that becomes awkward.