Can somebody please tell me how to post photos?

kehaulani

Can somebody please tell me how to post photos as part of a post?

If I have a photo on my computer (i.e. in Desktop or Pictures, etc.), what's the process?

When I want to post a photo, I push the Img button and get [img] with a message written above that says, "Insert image: [img]http://image_url[img] (alt+p]". But I don't know what that means.

When I pull an image up, I get no URL, just the photo.

Thanks, Kehaulani
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trumpetteacher1 · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:56 am Post subject:

I haven't done it in a long time, but if I remember correctly, you can't post images from your computer. You can only link to images that have already been posted somewhere else.

Jeff

Don Herman rev2 · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:24 am Post subject:

^^^ Correct, you need to put the photo on a photo hosting site, make sure third-party access is enabled, then link to the picture on that site.
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kehaulani · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:32 am Post subject:

Well, that's rather . . primitive.

Thanks so much for your quick response, I appreciate it and it also stops me from continuing to bang my head on the wall. (My neighbor appreciates this, too.) Thanks again.
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Robert Rowe · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:20 pm Post subject:

[quote="kehaulani"]Well, that's rather . . primitive.

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I agree.

This is 2018. One would hope the website could do better ....

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Don Herman rev2 · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:47 pm Post subject:

Todd has been planning to update for years but he's a busy guy and it is a massive job setting up a new site and pulling over all the data while trying to make sure nothing gets lost. It is ONE GUY doing all of this for all of us, give him a break. We don't have an IT staff; trumpet players, not web programmers.
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Crazy Finn · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:27 pm Post subject:

ButchA · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:33 am Post subject:

For hosting photos, a great website (unlike Photobucket) is called Imgur.
www.imgur.com

Lots and lots of people migrated their photos to Imgur after the snafu with Photobucket (they all of the sudden wanted to charge a fee, and blocked everyone's photo links, unless they paid up).

Put the photo link inside img and /img and use brackets[] instead of parenthesis():
(img)https://i.imgur.com/k6fHdHs.jpg(/img)

See? Here's the imbedded photo link from Imgur....

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Robert Rowe · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:43 am Post subject:

LittleRusty · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:14 am Post subject:

Or the equivalent of a GoFundMe campaign could be set up to fund the upgrade.

But at the end fo the day Todd is the one who gets to determine how much profit, and I doubt there is much, he receives, what software he receives and who he wants to allow to muck with the forum's software.

On a related note, I really dislike the taboola ads. I don't like having to pay for bandwidth their video ads use nor do I like the vertical size. I typically jump to the end of the page since I want to read the newest posts and now all I see are the ads.

But with all its warts, I still enjoy the site and thank Todd for hosting it.

kehaulani · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:15 am Post subject:

I have a different take on that. Isn't there a person or persons with the time and technological savvy to do this work?

Perhaps I'm wrong, but isn't this the most used American trumpet oriented site? Wouldn't that implythat there are enough candidates accessible?

BTW, this is not judgmental, I appreciate that someone is making this available to us. I wouldn't (couldn't) do this, or even want to if I could. I just wonder if it's not possible to get some help and update at the same time.
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LittleRusty · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:45 am Post subject:

Don Herman rev2 · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:23 am Post subject:

Robert Rowe · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:49 pm Post subject: