[mawby]

Originally Posted by rammieone

So does this just lessen the load on your own site with the link to the image??

Assuming the image has already been downloaded by the browser viewing the original post - no, caching should take care of that. What it does mean is if you have a thread with lots of pictures and a lot of people who are quoting just to reply things like "That's cool" then you don't end up with the same pictures appearing again, and again..... and again.

I find it makes a thread more coherent to view without the need to keep scrolling past quoted images to find something new.