[Mycroft Holmes]

There are forums which allow for putting up images using a simple copy and paste.

There sure are. What these sites do is upload your image from your local disk and store it on their server. Images are much larger (more expensive) than text. Were FR to do this I would expect that they would need to roughly double the existing hardware for equivalent performance.

Not a web designer, but I've written a few db driven websites.

I do think that learning HTML is becoming fundamental. Like typing. You can live your life without being able to touch type, but it limits the bandwidth of your communication channel. It's a choice.

I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Overlords /.

[Fishtalk]

The sorts of sites that allow a direct uploading of pictures aren’t generally news and opinion forums like this.

Lucianne.com allows no such thing. Hot Air.com allows no such thing. Heck can’t even put up photobucket photos on those sites.

Facebook, Blogger....they allow a direct upload.

But they’ve got servers to handle that kind of volume. Pictures, Lord....it really would require a lot for FreeRepublic to get that kind of storage.

[altura]

I’m glad for you, but I think of my husband, a former professional photographer.

Oh, the expensive cameras he had; the gadgets, the complicated settings, the skill it all took.

It’s gone now.

All that’s left is a fortune in camera equipment that’s totally obsolete and worth nothing.

People want it easy, and, by gosh, they will have it easy.