Good point Skyout,
Today, the upload image facility of this forum allows a member to add images at the end of a post. But if you want to use images within a post to demonstrate some point, then you first have to upload the images to some place on the internet and link the image into the post. This means that if a member looses their web space used to host the images, then the link dies and the images are lost, sometimes even making the post incomprehensible.
Not only should the Guild be considering making its image holding facility much much greater, but perhaps they should be considering making some web storage available to members as part of their membership. This way, all the knotty images would be safeguarded for the future, even should the inevitable happen and a member ceases to be able to maintain their web presence (i.e. they shuffle off to an even knottier place).
Storage space is now so low cost, the Guild could seriously consider creating a facility that could become the worlds greatest reserve of knotting imagery. Now that would be something to leave to future knotters.
Today, I use a number of free wiki sites to store all my knotting images (ca 200MB capacity). How much better (and safer) if all those images were to be held on a Guild server. This could be done relatively easily by running wiki software on a Guild server and allocating anyone with a Guild membership a user access to upload their files.
Pictures and videos are here to stay (you only have to look at the popularity of Youtube and Facebook to realise this) We need to keep our Guild up with this trend in order to ensure that we do not loose the next generation of knotty posters by only supporting a web presence stuck in the age of Forums. I know it was a big move for the Guild to move to have a website, then to having a Forum, but the pace of progress on the internet is fast and to stay in touch we need to move our web presence forward to meet the popular technologies.
Derek