Pictures not available in old posts

[1990 Legacy L Owner]

Why is that? Sometimes, even most of the time, the picture IS the topic. When I come to a new forum, I look through all the old posts just to see what's there. Now, when somebody's talking of a specific part in their engine and they post a pic, it's a speeding freeway pic taken with slow shutter speed so all you see is the lights rushing by. You can still click on the pic, but it's just that damn freeway. No wonder people re-post old topics.

Do you disable those old pics to save space?

[DLC]

What happens is that those are placeholders for accounts on image hosts that no longer exist.

Say someone has an account at imageshack and either closes the account or deletes the images. Imageshack returns that image instead of making a blank or nonexistent image, or an error message for that matter.

Almost none of the images on the BBS are hosted on the BBS.

Good enough explanation?

[1990 Legacy L Owner]

Perfect explanation. Thank you.

[1990 Legacy L Owner]

Ok, just one more thing. Why isn't there an add an attachment option when posting? I've never run a website before, so please excuse my ignorance. This is the first forum I've been to that doesn't allow attachments to be added, is this a cost issue?

Is there a way people can donate to the site? I always donate to forums that help me this much and are this well taken care of and designed, and I'm sure other people would, too.

[Manarius]

phpBB does not have an attachment option - at least not as standard issue stuff. It's probably an addon - and it's standard in version 3.0.