[Kyng]

Wow, sorry to hear you had to go through that .

I kind of have the opposite problem: my hotlink protection is excessively strong, to the point where it even blocks images on my own test board .

Ahhh wow. Even on the same domain? 

Yea it's a little tricky. I have to blacklist rather than whitelist for reasons like this. I've got several domains running on one server, and sometimes I need to share images between them. 

Who is your host?

I'm using KnownHost (on Megan's hosting, but I think she disabled hotlink protection altogether on her end a while back). My hotlink protection is done through CloudFlare.