Regarding Images.... While visiting the other forum I had notice something, that I need some of you to fix. Basically, it is this... Please, please, while posting images to the other forum, could you please not link to the images that you put up on this forum. Here is why... When you upload an image to this forum it is stored on Renderosity's server and stored there. Everytime someone opens it and views it from here it uses Bandwidth. Which is okay, that is why we have the sponser to help us pay for the bandwidth. But when you go to the other forum and link to the image that is hosted on our server, whenever someone clicks on the image to view it over there, it takes with it, some of our bandwidth and I get charged for it. The PFO has sponsers that pay for their forum to be there. That money should be paying them for the Bandwidth which they use on that forum. Their team should make it possible for you to post an image like we do, without making you have to link to somewhere else. Otherwise where is their sponser money go, for their bandwidth can't be that much. But that is neither here, nor there. Personally, if it didn't cost me as much as it does to run this forum, I wouldn't mind it. However, I think it is unfair of me to ask the sponsors of this forum to pay for bandwidth that isn't truly being used by this forum. I ask, that please, if you have post an image to the other forum that links it to this site, to please remove it and put it back up under another link maybe to Geocities/Yahoo or FortuneCity... Please, I wish to keep this forum here and don't wish to have to remove people's images that are linked from there to here to keep the forum here. Otherwise, I will also have to go to the same posting method that the PFO uses, where you put it up on your own server and link it to here. Thanks, Jack

Does this mean you're going to start storing the "freestuff" files on your server? As I recall, your forum software has some rather interesting code to make it possible for freestuff contributers to store files on "free sites", even if those sites have taken precautions to make this difficult, because they want people to read the banner ads that pay for their bandwidth. Remember how much trouble, how many itterations of the funstuff (before it was freestuff) code Roy went through before this would work on Geocities? Ciao! Joe

I doubt it. The amount of bandwidth that the free stuff takes is really amazing. When the first free site kicked us off we were averaging over 256Kbs all day, every day. That means you need at least a T1 to handle just the free stuff without horrible delays during busy times. To handle it without significant delays all the time means you'd need more like a 10Mb pipe. That was close to a year ago. It hasn't gotten any better. So, unless someone wants to kick in a couple grand a month, we can't do that. Disk space is cheap these days, but bandwidth is still expensive.