Why pictures, loaded by me to forum disappear after some time?

PP Admin,

I encountered the same as above. Any solutions?

Regards,

Raymund

Some of us do not paste the pictures directly to the forum. Instead we save the pictures on a file hosting service such as Photobucket and paste the HTML code with rich-text disabled, then we return to rich-text mode and can see the picture as others will see it.

You disable/enable rich-text mode by clicking back and forth on the blue text "Disable rich-text"/"Enable rich-text" displayed on the lower left corner of the window you use to post your comments.

Long ago I found pictures posted directly will eventually vanish but not if saved on an external file host.

Do you mean, theoretically 30,000+ users can post several pictures a day on PP? That's a lot of pictures, a lot of storage space.

The following might take 1 MB of storage space on a standard image format, but by using an external host it takes no space on your server other than the HTML code.

PP Admin,

I posted just yesterday.... and today morning it disapears....

Several times for me it took less than 24h

Rafael,

Thanks. I took your idea of embedding links to external sites directly into HTML. PICASA worked fine for me.

Hi PP Admin,

Is there any update on this issue? It's been over a year since it was raised, is still occuring, and is quite incovenient.

If it's not fixable, I would prefer I think if we could disable the option of inserting images, and perhaps add a sticky thread explaining how to do this via an external hosting site, as Rafael suggests below.

We've lost a lot of very interesting / informative images over the past 15 months.

Cheers,

G

Imagine how much space would be needed on PP servers, not to mention backups. I would go with Gary suggestion on a sticky thread. 

I also tried to embed a video window and only works at the preview level, this would be very cool.

Best Regards,

Rafael