We want the link to be clickable so it opens full screen in your browser. Doing that from CodePlex is impossible AFAIK. For example if you copy an image location for some of our other images you get an url like: http://download-codeplex.sec.s-msft.com/Download?ProjectName.... If you put that in as a link, or just try and open it from your browser window, you get a download prompt instead of seeing the image. My guess this is because the content type on the downloaded file is not being set to be an image, so imgur lets us work around that.

Out of interest, why does hosting it at imgur matter?

You know, I don't have a good answer... I was going to host it on another page on codeplex, but my teammate insisted on something w a direct link & no misc. stuff around it. I'll use your comment & tell him "Seeee!" :).

I would have said "imgur is great" except it deletes images. Imgur is simple for the consumer, and you don't pay the bills for bandwidth usage but http://imgur.com/faq#long says if it doesn't get at least 1 view in 6 months, it can deleted.

http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1523/imgur-com-is-deleti...

StackOverflow also hosts images on imgur. Is using something that happens to be used by Reddit inherently wrong, or did I miss your point?