19 Jun
2020
19 Jun
'20
8:46 p.m.
On 2020-06-19 11:27 p.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Yes, we could have learned from the fact that Photobucket and dozens of
other image hosting services chosen arbitrarily by users have
disappeared, leaving forums full of posts without context, often making
them useless.
--Toby
Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt
with via links.
Which rot over time.
If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any
attachments as well.
http://www.vcfed.org/forum is a perfect example of messages full of link
rot.