bandwidth cost money. pictures use a lot of bandwidth when thousands of users look at them over and over or to come back to update their conversation in those posts.
all ice shanty asks is you help them help you by using picture hosting sites and to not make them so large people have to scroll back and forth to read the texts.
if you are asking them to allow you to directly upload here, it will cost a lot more money. they are making money to keep the lights on for us. maybe a site for members only that has dues might work for that.
i appreciate being able to have a place to talk about ice fishing and related things. pictures are not needed to talk, but are nice to see.
do you know of a site that allows direct picture uploads that talks about ice fishing? i, for one, would like to go check it out. you said this site is behind the times, so i would like to see the other sites that are not.