Is there an actually good reason for threads to have an image

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2016-03-10 20:10:32 Post No. 465069
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 20:10:32 Post No. 465069 [Report]

Is there an actually good reason for threads to have an image limit?
If a thread hits image limit without hitting bump limit, people just make a new thread anyway. All it does is disrupt threads where people post lots of images, or kill conversation in threads which are beyond bump limit but not yet on Page 1*. It seems like a vestige of when people only had 400kB of RAM and couldn't handle more than 150 memes at once.

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 21:22:22 Post No.465108
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 21:22:22 Post No.465108 [Report]

Is there an actually good reason for threads to not have an image limit?

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NSWPP 2016-03-10 21:23:20 Post No.465110
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NSWPP 2016-03-10 21:23:20 Post No.465110 [Report]

BTFO

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Anonymous 2016-03-11 03:02:46 Post No.465314
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Anonymous 2016-03-11 03:02:46 Post No.465314 [Report]

>>465069
File storage costs. Would need to buy more hard drives.

>>465108
Convenience. It's pretty annoying on /vg/ which has a bump limit of 500 but an image limit of 150. You can go to just about any thread and see the exact spot where image limit was hit just by scrolling quickly.

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Anonymous 2016-03-11 04:48:11 Post No.465362
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>>465314
>Would need to buy more hard drives.
I wonder how much disk space the 4chan servers currently use and how old those drives are. As you probably know, hard drive space only gets cheaper as time goes on and they hold 2-10 TB each now.

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Anonymous 2016-03-11 05:29:05 Post No.465373
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Anonymous 2016-03-11 05:29:05 Post No.465373 [Report]

>>465069
We've actually had this thread before and had a Hiro reply. He couldn't figure out how to remove the image limit.