By default, Discus and Discus Professional do not have enabled a function to link images from another server (for example, using code like <IMG SRC="http://another.server.com/image.gif">).

The rationale for this is as follows:

• Linked images slow the loading of your pages, especially if the images are linked from a server with a slow connection or a server that is unreliable.

• Linking images from another site is sometimes against the acceptable use policies for content from the site (for example, linking directly to large clipart sites is taboo). Even if your users create the links, you as the site administrator may be blamed.

• Linked images from other sites may change their URLs, resulting in broken links from your site.

Despite these negatives associated with linking images from another site, some administrators wish to allow their users to do just this. Discus can be easily configured to allow this by creating a formatting tag to allow this. In all versions of Discus 3.10 and higher, the webtags.conf file already contains a sample "imagelink" tag, which just needs to be uncommented in order to enable this ability.

• Discus formatting instructions - distributed with board
• Administration instructions for Options Manager
• How do I upload images to my post?
• How do I upload attachments to my post?