When I joined MM I though it was excellent that you could upload images to the MM site itself. Reading this topic I thought that it must be adding to the cost of the site.
I am a long standing member of the Man United Message Board and we are not able to upload images on that site. We can display images by copying and pasting from other sites on the web, use of <img src="image url"> html code to display images. Istead of the site having to store a 100KB image it only stores a small piece of text that is much less than 1KB in size. This makes the site more responsive, faster and it reduces the running cost I would say.
Users are encouraged to use
free image hosting sites such as
http://www.photobucket.com
http://www.imageshack.com
http://www.flickr.com
to share their images.
Would this be an option for MM to reduce the cost of running the site?