How Do I Add A Picture To A Post?

[Samwell Turleton]

I am curious to know which image hosting sites people are using now. I would like to make embedded posts if I can manage it.

Anyone have any positive or negative experiences with imgbb. I set up an account and it seems to be easy to use.

[rredmond]

I use https://village.photos/ because it’s easy peasy. Which is important for me
But it doesn’t have the bells and whistles of other sites. Luckily, here, you can use the fimg code to resize pictures if they are too big for the img code (thanks Inferno for that tip ) which aids me when I post pics.

[BackworldTraveller]

Can you scale an attachment in a similar way to how you can scale an image using fimg?

[dmw71]

Can you scale an attachment in a similar way to how you can scale an image using fimg?

I don't think so. The scaling you're referring to requires setting a width variable inside the opening tag (e.g. [fimg=500]). With attachments, the variable you pass in the opening tag determines the order (e.g. [attachment = 0] or [attachment = 1], etc...).

I don't think you can pass more than one variable into a tag. I might explore/test that later if I find the time ( ), but you're also willing to dabble with it as well.

If you do, let us know.

[BackworldTraveller]

That is what I feared

Do the attachments have URLs in their own right?

[BackworldTraveller]

The file at

download/file.php?id=21595

is an attachment

It CAN be referenced using fimg!

But you get odd results if you don't reference an attachment as an attachment and you need to find out what it is called before you can reference it.

[dmw71]

I'm sure it does, but I've never had the occasion to look into it.

Again, I don't have the time now, but you might want to dabble with the recommendations in this post.

the hard part is getting the attachment url to begin with.
you have to upload it, then attach it to the post, then preview and copy the url and paste it within the img and url bbcode tags.
then, before you submit the post you need to delete the attached file by clicking delete file from the attachment box.
then submit the post and it should work.

No idea if it will actually work, but it's the best I found after a quick search.

[BackworldTraveller]

OK - The delete part would fix the "odd results"

[rredmond]

I think Inferno does something with the attachments as images. I'll have to ping him about this thread.

[Inferno]

Hey everyone.

I don't think you can scale an attachment. I usually reduce an image through other means, like photoshop, before attaching it.

But once it's attached here, you can right click on the image, select 'Copy image address,' and paste it between 'fimg=' brackets to reduce it further, like this:

[BackworldTraveller]

You can also use one thread to post the unscaled images and reference them in another...If you delete the original attachment then the link can break. I suspect archiving the original may have the same effect.