I don't recall any changes. The method of using a third party photo hosting site was in place when I joined in Feb 2009. The method we use is also the norm for most forums that are hosted. The forums that are bespoke will normally do their own hosting of photos. These require the use of the owner's own server and software people to maintain the database etc which, obviously, will incur high running costs. This forum is not an example of the latter and as a result we have to operate under certain constrictions.