Here is the thread. And here is the message I seem to always get: Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private..
I’m already a Charter Member. What more do they want me to do?
By pictures, I assume you mean profiles. It’s because all those links are broken. Likes to profiles on vB are different than links to profiles on discourse, and that’s not even counting how many people (like you and I) have slightly different usernames than we had before.