This isn't a huge earth-shattering problem or anything, but there is a ton of valuable info posted here and a lot of times it relies on images that were pulled directly from third party sites or from temporary hosting sites like imgur or photobucket. After several years most of those links are broken, so old posts here tend to be filled with missing images.

Since we're apparently a bunch of nostalgic weirdos here on VOGONS, it probably isn't a stretch to assume that most of us STILL HAVE pictures we would have uploaded a decade ago or more, so we are likely the only ones capable of restoring the usefulness of posts we made in the past that have broken image links. The majority of pictures these days are attached to posts so this is more of a problem with posts from several years ago when more people used external hosting.

To make it easier to go through your post history, you can do this:
1. Go to advanced search. (Magnifying glass > Gear)

2. Enter a keyword that is relevant to any image hosting sites you may have used in the past: imgur, photobucket, tinypic, abload, dropbox, imagehosting, imageshack, etc. Or, just "IMG" since that will bring up any image embeds you have used (though probably a lot of irrelevant posts too).

3. Enter your username for the the author of the post.

If you think you still have any of the pictures mentioned in the posts, insert updated links or just attach the images directly to the post if possible.

If even a small percentage of the broken image links on this site can be restored it will be very helpful to anyone who finds our post when doing research in the future.

Historical preservation is a cool thing. Thanks for doing your part. 😁