Like was mentioned elsewhere we’re in the “call for a quote” category of sites so it’s hard to find list prices. I have no idea what we pay for storage, or how the cost scales with usage, but I think it’s safe to assume that Discourse is likely to monetize the heck out of media hosting.
I’m simply saying that I find it hard to believe we’re in some vanishingly small minority who forbids images. People here keep saying this makes us some kind of unicorn, that doesn’t pass the sniff test. Simply checking that one box, unless it’s deeply buried in some hard to find INI file, wouldn’t be rare.
I beleive the root cause analysis is sound, but either there’s another less obvious factor also presenting in the testbed, or this issue is more widespread amongst the Discourse install base.