These days it?s trivial to provide a link to Dropbox or Google or
whatever,
it?s certainly easier than trying to log into Yahoo and futz about trying
to get
the photo to upload.
The problem with hosting these things on third party sites like Dropbox,
Google, or whatever, is that over the years, that hosting may go away, so
people comeing here later and trying to understand things may end up with
broken links.
It's best to have the hosting done by something at least semi-officially
related to the group so that it's not lost randomly, and if the group
moves,
the images can be moved at the same time.
David Lang
These groups could go away tomorrow as well. They've been on the chopping
block for a while.
The bulk of the images that people share have a limited lifespan or just not
that interesting (mine certainly aren't worth keeping).
By 'limited lifespan' I mean "here's a photo of my new lathe with my cat
sitting on it. What's that knob near his left foot do?". After a week
it'll never be viewed again, but still taking up space.
Exploded diagram of the spindle or a circuit diagram, now that's worth
keeping. (Thing is you could find those on Google anyway.)
Nobody wants the job of weeding out the cruft in Files, so the mods lock it
down.
Tony
