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Originally Posted by alansplace
Hmmm...that's a good point Fizz, maybe his access to dropbox is blocked?
"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62688405/messages/42.JPG"
Tox, try accessing the above address and see what uou get, ok?
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While I do see most of your pics, dropbox is not a great solution for hosting images. Regardless of how much storage space you have, if too many people are looking at a picture you've shared via dropbox, it's easy to use up more bandwidth than the service allows. Image hosting is a tetchy issue on the interwebs, because if you embed images too widely from servers or services that are getting no compensation (usually in the form of advertising), and if that image gets more popular than anyone anticipated, it can lead to serious expenses or even shut down the server and associated sites. With dropbox, if too many people are linking to a given file, they'll shut down links to that whole account. It's better to use dedicated image hosting services. I use photobucket, but imgur is more popular these days, and even flickr has the basic functionality. A lot of blogs and even some forums now offer the option of uploading images direct to their servers, so that the whole onus of bandwidth lies with the site actually displaying the content, but of course that solution raises copyright issues.