[Zathris]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

What is your official position on this matter, Mr Undertow'd?

Good question. #like

Originally Posted by Undertoad

10 years ago hotlinking was a terrible problem for us because

words = small
images = big
video = huge (it's actually many images per second)

But since bandwidth has increased worldwide, hotlinked images are not much of a problem for us any more, and certainly not for image hosting sites like Imgur. The only problem with hotlinking now is that we will outlast the other sites and the threads won't be pretty. I like the idea that our threads may still be useful and interesting in 10-20 years.

Seems logical. #like