TEST THREAD

Just a test post, to see if it works, having had to do a password reset, and forgetting my username.

Colin

How to generate a forgetting password and user name ?

Let a moderator know your old username and the password can be reset. Best done by clicking "message member" just under this reply box.

Test photo hosting site imgur.

https://imgur.com/XTA62Y7

https://i.imgur.com/XTA62Y7.jpg

Ooh Look at that. The fourth option Imgur offers, labelled "HTML (Website/blogs) works and posts an actual picture, below. Sooooooooo much quicker and easier than tediously and painfully slowly uploading pics to this site and then linking to the album and so on.

I will try it on a live thread now.

Well it seems that it works ok but not on the first save and viewing. You have to reopen the post for editing then close it again and the code magically changes into a picture. This site is the weirdest. Imgur offers a few other options so I will try them too.

This one is the BBCode option

[img]https://i.imgur.com/XTA62Y7.jpg[/img]

And this one is the Linked BBCode option.

[url=https://imgur.com/XTA62Y7][img]http://i.imgur.com/XTA62Y7.jpg[/img][/url]

Let's see how they work.

Well, the last two options didn't, obviously.

So the best way is:

Upload your pics to Imgur.

Copy and paste the Imgur HTML link onto your post here.

Close your post. Reopen it for editing. Close your post again.

It is still quicker than uploading to this site and doing the album and all that faff.

Edited By Hopper on 21/01/2023 03:36:56

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Edited By Hopper on 21/01/2023 03:58:09

A problem in the past with linking to external sites for pics is that you have no guarantee that the link will last beyond the next re-vamp of that site. Or suddenly they want money for hosting your pics - where it was free before - and you decide not to bother. etc

I agree it's a pain here but it is reliable (as reliable as the poster wants it to be).

Yes I got caught like that in the Photobucket fiasco. Some people never learn!

What's really needed here is that, once you insert a picture from your album to a post, it gets incorporated as part of the post itself in addition to your album. Don't think it will happen though ... storage space would increase and something would have to be done about the marching morons who never edit their quotes from a post they are responding to but quote everything (including a dozen pictures) to add a one-liner.

Just a second post so I can reply to a classified ad