So true the forum software is very outdated, it's a PITA to upload pictures to another host, copy the url, come back to the page your working on to insert the link. Then when one of the free hosts suddenly insisted on paid membership, those who held their ground soon found their images blocked with broken links to the forums those images had been posted on.

Admin recently spent time tweaking some of the forums self serving features, but modernizing user features was overlooked.