Let's stop using photobucket on the forums.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Zulu Two Six

its a choice of preference
you can't tell the entire forum not to use something

I'm not making demands of anybody. I can't imagine why anyone would intentionally choose photobucket over any other site to host an image post, so I assume it's a matter of not knowing about alternatives. Obviously it's not something that can be enforced, but if it could be acknowledged as an official preference it might be helpful.

I know on the somethingawful forums they state in the rules that it is preferred that any image host besides photobucket is used (a preference not a hard and fast rule). Before imgur was launched the users there created waffleimages as an alternative to photobucket, but I can't advocate for that here because it's run on the private servers of SA forum users specifically for images posted to SA.

I bring this up because of this thread.

http://forum.imfdb.org/showthread.php?t=216

A whole bunch images there weren't showing up. Whether or not the images load from photobucket is variable depending on how many people are viewing the thread.