Including external photos is definitely something I'll be considering, and all the positive feedback from users following the launch of the system is certainly encouraging. However, implementing it would be a mammoth task, as we'd have to duplicate all of the data on our server in order to deliver the same degree of reliability as with photos already uploaded to the site. This may lead to privacy concerns, as many people share photos that aren't theirs, and as such we'd end up hosting content without the authors' permission, and with no way for the authors to delete their photos without contacting us.
While some features that were originally planned for the system haven't yet been implemented (they will be added later), what you see now is what was originally intended: a system allowing users to find photos on the site based on EXIF data, something which wasn't possible before.
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