That must be an SMF issue. Most of the forums I'm on use vbulletin, and photobucket is one of the few sites where the images always show up. That's why I host all my renders and images there.
doesn't really matter, I can easily post image shack on any forum without problems and it's much better.
I won't deny they'll show up as I don't use it (though I could argue which is better is a matter of opinion). However running my own site, being admin on 3 more, and a member on I don't know how many all using vBulletin I have never had anybody complain about my images not showing up, or had anybody else's photobucket hosted images not show up for me. Hence my "It must be an SMF issue" comment.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (with real subtitles)