john albrich said:
Same applies for uploading pictures to imageshack or other random image files hosting sites. After few years, your picture may not exist any more in their server, hence the link you posted here will no longer work. I am not 100% sure how often these sites do cleanups to their image cache, but I have no doubt they do it, since all these are just random pictures uploaded by random people and hosting for free.
But on the other hand, even for a regular web link from say a creditable news site, it may not last forever either. The net is changing constantly, the link you post today, may not exist or relocated, few months or years down the road.
...1) By relying on any external company's website to maintain the database of actual URLs this puts HWA at risk of losing the content of all those shortened links...
Same applies for uploading pictures to imageshack or other random image files hosting sites. After few years, your picture may not exist any more in their server, hence the link you posted here will no longer work. I am not 100% sure how often these sites do cleanups to their image cache, but I have no doubt they do it, since all these are just random pictures uploaded by random people and hosting for free.
But on the other hand, even for a regular web link from say a creditable news site, it may not last forever either. The net is changing constantly, the link you post today, may not exist or relocated, few months or years down the road.