Ed's comments aren't necessarily due to his restraint
. The thread in question is 7 years old and the site software has been updated/revised at least a couple of times since then. Unfortunately, when that is done sometimes the format of internal links to the images are changed and the images go away. I have had to go back and edit some of my earlier threads to restore the images.
P.S. But your comments about posting the photos here rather than linking to an offsite source is exactly right.