Posting links from external sites

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That's why I use Photobucket that way I control the movement of my pic's.

The same happens with Photobucket sometimes. All it takes is for the site to change one element of their URLs to cause old image links not to work (because the actual URL to the image is now different). The images might be in the same place in regards to your Photobucket account, however it doesn't mean the link will remain the same. The problem is sometimes the sites don't properly redirect old image URLs to load the correct URLs if they changed.



For example, if the URL to one of your images on photobucket is:

photobucket.com/mechanic/images/your-image-here.jpg

And for some reason they change their URL structure so the URL to your image becomes:

photobucket.com/users/mechanic/img/album/your-image-here.jpg

If photobucket (or Facebook) doesn't have a script in place to load the correct image when and if the OLD url format is used, the images will stop working.

Using attachments is usually the most reliable method of including pictures.