Hi ... I'm not sure what all the drama is about, but I'm the member who apparently told you "a crock of shit."
Let me try and explain, once again, what has happened to your photographs. The fact that your photographs were showing
before was actually a glitch, not the other way around. The code you have placed to make your photos appear is wrong. You have placed double img tags, creating an error that will NOT display your photographs.
When you use the button to post images, you copy the DIRECT LINK address into the space provided, because the button itself places the IMG TAGS for you.
If you copy the IMG TAG LINK into the button, you will create DOUBLE IMG TAGS, resulting in the error that you see - no photos!
The photos were somehow managing to display before, in spite of your error! For whatever reason, the forum is no longer allowing those kind of errors to go through and is sensitive to IMG code errors. The fact is, if your code wasn't incorrect to begin with, the photos would still be showing.
This "problem" isn't unique to you or your machine. This person has also copied the IMG CODE link from Photobucket, and placed it in the img button, resulting in the same error:
https://freeplease.rpg-board.net/chit-chat-and-whatever-else-f7/timmys-finger-and-xray-t6140.htmSee? Photos not showing. Not your machine. Not you. The code is wrong and the forum is doing exactly what it should- not displaying your pictures, because you didn't provide the right code to do so.