# What the hell's with all these lame new forums? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745 "2008-12-04T21:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 90
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745/90 "2008-12-08T19:58:59Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Hey, check it out… > > you can embed pictures in the Chicago fora. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10540895&postcount=3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10540895&postcount=3) > > For now, at least. Huh. Did you see **Ed Zotti** ’s response? > [@Okay, pizza - both styles.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-pizza-both-styles/476031/5): > > Huh, guess I messed up on a setting. But the images are pretty cool, and **since traffic in this forum is light we shouldn’t run into bandwidth issues**. I’ll keep images enabled for a while and see how it goes. Nice post, **pulykamell**. Nice pix. Bolding mine. It seems to me that this demonstrates a certain amount of ignorance regarding exactly what is involved with the embedding of images. The images placed in the post by **pulykamell** are hotlinked from a completely different site. When this happens, there are zero bandwidth issues for the SDMB, whether forum traffic is light or heavy, because the images are loaded from the host website straight into our browsers. I don’t really care that we can’t link images on the main SDMB forums, but if the reason they’re giving for not enabling that feature is “bandwidth issues,” it’s a completely misguided rationale. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hells-with-all-these-lame-new-forums/475745)._