We had been using the Picture Post feature on our board, the one that allows the user to post their little picture with their post (like cute little me on the left). Our users are pretty new to the whole Internet thang, so many didn't know how to post these pictures. Someone suggested one of the many new Photo sites on the net that allow you to store photos.
Well somebody changed their profile to start using a photo on one of these sites. Then they went out and posted a bunch of messages. Well guess what? Their link was to a password secured site! So everytime someone visited a thread they posted to, up popped a userid/password prompt. Oh man did I start getting messages from users wanting to know what the heck was going on.
So for now we've shut that feature off. []/w3timages/icons/frown.gif[/] It's too bad too cuz I liked it. But then the forum is much faster without it. Seems that many people were linking to photos on geocities, homestead and so on and they were so slow that it was slowing up the page display.
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