It was an early and foolish decision we made back in the dearly days of TinyGrab. The original system wasn't built, or even created, to handle more than a handful of people using the service. Thanks to some great PR though we scaled to ver 400,000+ users almost over night. The code base was horrible, buggy and 2.0 was being written to fix all of that. It was supposed to be a smooth transition over, but unfortunately someone got there first and forced us to launch the new system.