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Posting images on the HFU
ChrisSmolinski:
Attachments are now disabled. They consume huge amounts of disk space and slow things down. If you wish to post an image, it's trivial to do so via imgur and other services. They let you post huge images, often without any (reasonable) size limits
For example:
1. Go to https://imgur.com
2. Click the New Post button
3. Paste your image into your browser window
4. Right click on the image URL
5. Paste the image URL into the message you are posting on the HFU, in between IMG tags.
6. You're done!
TheRelayStation:
sorry Chris, any attachments that i did attach, i resized and further compressed to reduce the file size dramatically, i believe the last attachments i had were well under 100Kbytes.
i do completely understand where you are coming from though concerning the use of image attachments using storage space and bandwidth.
perhaps you may want to cross-link this post as a "sticky" for the frequently used discussion threads that use attachments.
KaySeeks:
Chris - can you pin this post?
Teotwaki:
--- Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on June 14, 2018, 2029 UTC ---5. Paste the image URL into the message you are posting on the HFU, in between IMG tags.
--- End quote ---
A long time ago I had to discover this on my own so here it is for those who don't yet know:
image tags consist of bracketing your image's URL with [/img] at the end of the URL and almost the same tag at the beginning of the URL but without the / character before the img characters between the brackets
(I have to explain it in this convoluted way because if I spell it out completely the forum will try to display an image when there isn't one.)
So if I have an image that is hosted somewhere I can grab its URL such as this nice NDB beacon in Nevada
http://www.auroralchorus.com/ndb/emc375_2.jpg
Then I add the image tags in the proper spots at the beginning and at the end of the url
KaySeeks:
--- Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on June 14, 2018, 2029 UTC ---Attachments are now disabled. They consume huge amounts of disk space and slow things down. If you wish to post an image, it's trivial to do so via imgur and other services. They let you post huge images, often without any (reasonable) size limits
For example:
1. Go to https://imgur.com
2. Click the New Post button
3. Paste your image into your browser window
4. Right click on the image URL
5. Paste the image URL into the message you are posting on the HFU, in between IMG tags.
6. You're done!
--- End quote ---
imgur appears to have changed things since Chris wrote this. The flow is slightly different now so I'm going to update below:
* https://imgur.com
* Click on green "New post" button.
* Either drag and drop an image or upload it from your computer as shown.
* With it uploaded to imgur.com, mouse over the image to the three dots in the upper right corner. Click on that area, you will see an option named "get share options".
* You will see an option called "BBC Code (Forums)". Click on the green "Copy Link" button to the right of it.
* Go back to your HF Undergeround post. Paste the code you just copied from imgur straight into your post. No need to use the "insert image" or "insert hyperlink" buttons because they are already inserted for you.
* Complete.
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