Stop hotlinking.

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Hotlinking is embedding an image on another website directly from the website it's from.

[img]http://not-the-forums.com/images/nice_meme.png[/img]

I'm seeing this perpetually in the Lolcow board. People link directly to Wizardchan, Fluffybooru, the Blue Buddies forum. Stop. Fucking stop. When you hotlink something, it often redirects you to another image. 4chan and Bluebuddies both do this. This is called hotlink protection.

Whenever you hotlink, people other than you often see an image like this:

So fucking stop.

The forum has a BUILT IN attachment system. All you have to do is right click, save as, and then drag it into your post to get it attached directly to the board. This also prevents it from being removed or lost on the website it's from.

The exception is websites SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to host images, like http://imgur.com

 

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Bumping this because people don't get it.

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It was working for me. Weird.

I explained this in a global announcement.

http://cwckiforums.com/threads/stop-hotlinking.4995/

You go to a website. You request an image. Website sees you're requesting an image using a webpage inside of itself. Website sends you image. Your browser caches image. Image now works forever.

You go to my website. You request an image on another website. Website sees you're hotlinking and tells the connection to fuck off. You have no cached image so you see nothing.

Hotlinking is a douchebag thing to do.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...metron/ehoopddfhgaehhmphfcooacjdpmbjlao?hl=en

Just fucking add this thing, right click literally any image, and it's a 1 click reupload in a way that ensures everyone can see it and nobody can remove it.