Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 11:55 pm, by: Peter Nitschke(Pen)
If you upload a picture to SC, then it is on the net because SC is on the net. It won't show anywhere else however unless someone snaffles a copy and then puts it somewhere else on the net.
What I was referring to before, is eg you might have your own web site, and rather than upload a pic twice, if it already exists on your web site, then you can use a thumbnail to link to the existing pic instead of having to upload it here as well.
The advantage of thumbnails is also that if you have a very large detailed pic which is larger than we allow here, thumbnailling it allows people to still access the full version while only seeing a small image on the forum.
The disadvantage is, that if the pic is ever removed from it's location on the net, then the thumbnail link will no longer work.
