[NonValueAdded]

Pro'ly what is happening is that you first access the photo on Photobucket through your account, thus it is cached in your browser. If it isn't your photo, you are at least doing it directly through the PB Web site. Either way, it is cached.

Then when you add it in to a FR post via an html link and you preview, your browser pulls up the image from cache and not the internet. Everything looks hunkydory to you but when we viewers of the post access the link, Photobucket (and lots of other sites) substitute their warning graphic or return nothing at all.

Here's how you can predict the problem. After you preview the post, use the browser's refresh button (or menu command) to force a re-read via the Internet. That might not do the trick if you have Photobucket open in another tab or have your PB session credentials in a cookie. It's worth a try though.

[swampdweller]

Thanks. That’s good advice. I’ll try it out.

[JoJo Gunn]

Yep, and if you think your image hoster took a temporary powder, open the thread in a different browser and see if it loads.

Image Shack and xs.to, etc, sometimes bog down, especially in the daytime.