I have always used the file manager to load my pictures. There are two obvious disadvantages to doing it that way.
One is the pictures have to be clicked on to load rather than automatically pop up. But it appears that Shorty has a html fix for that (although using my Android TAB while on the road I'm having a glitch doing it althouh should work fine on home computer).
The other is I assume it eats up forum hard drive hosting space which I presume costs money. To offset this I always try to give a decent donation to the forum each year to help with my usage. Which reminds me I need to go look and see if I havd done that yet this year.
Edit: third limitation I thouht of is file size is limited with the internal file manager. My solution is to use my crappy old low resolution flip phone which has small file size
but crappy pictures
