lakestheguy
5 months ago
@wallance-online i meant tomorrow at the time. but whatever i technically reminded myself by looking at my profile so it's all good
defiant-confusion
5 months ago
I think it's like skykristal said. From what I remember of being on the web in the 2000s, hotlinking could crash a site because the web host had limitations in place. Or at least that's how I understood it - I could've misunderstood.
defiant-confusion
5 months ago
(But that said, it's less of an issue these days, so I don't know why the practice has stuck :shrug: )
smokoswebzone
5 months ago
IIRC hotlinking an image would steal bandwidth from the website that image is hosted on, so it was highly discouraged back in the 90s and 00s. No idea if it’s still an issue now.
smokoswebzone
5 months ago
No problem! I'm not sure if it's taken as seriously now as it was then, though there's a chance that the person saying "NO HOTLINKING" has just been running websites for a really long time lol
fixed it