Dropbox discontinuing the public folder direct hosting broke hundreds of links to images in the community forts I ran. I'm considering trying to write a PHP script to move the images to my web server while automatically editing my posts to repoint the images, but I don't think it's worth the trouble.
The threads are quite old and I doubt anybody but me really cares. I can't fix anyone's posts but mine. Some of the very early images are on Photobucket and broken in ways I can't fix automatically. I'm not sure I can even write a script that can edit the posts since it looks like SMF's authentication system isn't simple, and I don't know how hard it will be to get the script to pull and scrape the HTML and recreate the form post. I'm really not sure it's worth my time to bother.
Not to mention putting links to a private web server on a public forum feels like it's asking for trouble. I'm not a security expert and I'm the one who set up the server, so it could easily lead to trouble. The server's already scanned periodically by bots looking for vulnerable web applications, so maybe it's not a big deal, but it makes me uneasy.
More annoying than sad, I guess, but the whole thing does kind of feel like poetic punctuation to the community forts, and not in a good way. Oh well, if the games died a slow death of apathy, that means I'm the only one disappointed if I can't fix the images.
Probably should have seen this problem coming years ago, at any rate.