Hmm.. Ever since Futaba stopped putting up links to the daily 2ch threads, I've had a sinking suspicion that we've been missing out on a lot of stuff. This is a case in point; I don't remember ever seeing the base image for this anywhere...
bandwidth concerns is my guess. They've been locking out a lot of things.
Things that have changed on Futaba the past few weeks:
No more hotlinking to OYP or any other yukkuri sites. Banning foreign IPs from kariloader (the anko stories) Removing the IP ban only to implement it and then remove it again. Removed the ability to comment on pictures. Restructured the site to be less graphically intensive. Removed hotlinking to the pictures.
That wouldn't make sense for the 2ch links though, since that's just a link.. It'd be 2ch's servers which handle all the downloads, and no doubt they can handle it...
Well, the server would have to handle a get request and reroute through futaba's server for every image request. That's excess overhead that would not be incurred if they didn't link to 2ch links at all. Not to mention there's a lot of discussion that goes on at 2ch as well, but I don't know if futaba handles those posts as well.
That's not what I meant. I mean, the daily link on the front of Futaba sends you directly to 2ch's servers. If I posted a link to Google on my site, once you click it, you're at Google. Every subsequent request goes directly to them, not through me.