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Do you allow image hotlinking?

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    Do you allow image hotlinking?

    Does your forum software allow for image hotlinking from other websites? Or, do you require your forum members to upload photos?

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    Layla

    Layla

    You can let members hotlink to images on other sites, but always encourage them to upload to a third party site such as TinyPic to avoid legal troubles.
    11 years ago

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    angie828

    angie828

    I like the idea of hotlinking. It is much faster to me and I think just as beneficial.
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    Beverly

    Beverly

    Sometime back, I had a shopping website and someone hotlinked to one of my images and cost me a lot of bandwidth. After that I started using methods to minimize the risk of hotlinking.
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    ralph101

    ralph101

    Sometime back, I had a shopping website and someone hotlinked to one of my images and cost me a lot of bandwidth. After that I started using methods to minimize the risk of hotlinking.


    Point well taken. I think that hotlinking could be good if used right.
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    Beverly

    Beverly

    Point well taken. I think that hotlinking could be good if used right.

    For sure, it's a different story when the site owner has asked everyone to share their meme or infographic. In that situation, it's probably OK to hotlink (such as on Facebook when you share to your timeline)
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