Going through a thread and instead of seeing a picture, seeing "This photo has been moved or deleted . . . Photobucket/Flickr/etc . . ."

I'm sure there are a million reasons this occurs. If I find a picture with a link on the web, I'll usually just copy and paste the URL. If that site lifts the picture, well I'm guilty too.

I don't know how XMTS feels about using its photo storage for these kinds of things, but I assume that's what it's there for. If I'm going to upload a picture from my HDD to show here, might as well use XMTS's photo/album storage. Seems to me that's the best chance the picture will stay as part of the thread.

If you're going to use Photobucket or some other third party's storage, which makes sense if you already have it loaded there, it sure would help the continuity of the threads to leave them there and not delete them.

Pet peeve over.