Many small sites control the size of images (static or video [if those are even allowed]). Images take up
gobs (sorry for the technical jargon) of web space on servers (
particularly multi-megabyte, full-screen images! ). Many forums even request you
link to images instead of posting them at their site.
Stu seems to be able to pay for enough web space that he has not seen the need to ask for these kinds of things... so far.
That may be because he uses his own hardware. OTOH, we're not paying him, even for his coding work very often... As far as I know, the WC software is definitely
not his main source of income!
There are so many free image upload sites! Personally, I like to upload images to those, so I don't use any space at a forum. The images will still show here, but they won't take any any room at all on
Stu's hosting servers.