It's been working for me with Edge, for the last few posts of my track plan. Granted, those are coming from my personal web site and not a picture host, but it really should be the same - whatever URL the provider lists as the way to post your photos on other web sites is what you use, it should end in JPG or GIF or BMP, PNG should work too. If the URL ends in ANYTHING but the file extension, it will never work.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
BigDaddyImgur has several ways that your picture might appear
Hi Henry:
I just managed to post a trial picture using your first method. I guess I'm using imgur from now on.
Thanks for your help.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
The problem fromt he other link was exactly what I said - the URL you posted in your message did NOT end in .jpg, it had other stuff added - that will NEVER work. You must be using the wrong 'source' on Flickr. Notice the different data in each of the possible imgur links - only the correct one works, if you used any other box to copy from, it would also fail.
One pretty much standard rule - the URL shown in your browser on an image hosting site is never the URL used to link your image to another forum. The required URL will be to the side or under your image in a box marked for the purpose.
It's different when you use a generic web site like I do - then the URL int he browser IS the link to the photo.
rrinkerThe problem fromt he other link was exactly what I said - the URL you posted in your message did NOT end in .jpg, it had other stuff added - that will NEVER work.
Sorry Randy, I didn't pay close enough attention to your first post about where the 'jpg' had to be. I'm going to go back to the the other hosting sites and see if I can figure out what I was doing wrong.
Thanks for your help,
Again, IF you are posting a photo from Flickr, using BBCode, THIS is the link that will be copy > pasted IN THE TEXT BODY OF YOUR REPLY not in the insert/edit image icon box.
MR_Photo3 by Edmund, on Flickr
At least this is what works for me. I don't mind having the "Flickr by Edmund" moniker at the bottom of each of my photos. Sure beats all the Popups from Photobucket
The image above was from a November 15, 2017 discussion about...
— how to post photos
In the case of your trackplan photo, Dave, the copied link would look like this:
Flickr by Edmund, on Flickr
— and would show up only as text in the body of your reply but when you then post your reply to the Forum the link would become active and the photo would appear.
Hope that helps,
Good Luck, Ed
Wow, that's a lot of code just to link a photo. I know, it does it for you, but still..
Yeah, I didn't want to have to quit using Photobucket. I already had thousands of photos at Flickr so it was how I transitioned to using them for "third-party hosting"
I CAN get rid of all that text before the "http" and ".img" and then copy THAT into the forums insert image box. The main reason I don't use that method is, as I mentioned in an earlier reply, Flickr wants to have the link-back shown with the photo as part of their EULA.
Like you, Randy, I do have a blog-site at Wordpress but it is a "work-in-progress" and I don't have very many photos uploaded there.
Cheers! Ed
gmpullmanAgain, IF you are posting a photo from Flickr, using BBCode, THIS is the link that will be copy > pasted IN THE TEXT BODY OF YOUR REPLY not in the insert/edit image icon box.
I got the text to appear in my post but I deleted it because it wasn't the actual photo. I never tried to submit the post because I figured the post was messed up.
I think we should have another international holiday. We can call it "Throttle Your Local IT Programmer by the Neck day!". I don't understand why the IT people don't recognize that there are still lots of us dinosaurs out there. I guess we are just too small a portion of the market to bother catering to.
Whine, whine, whine!! Fat lot of good that's going to do me!
hon30critterWe can call it "Throttle Your Local IT Programmer by the Neck day!"
I feel your frustration, Dave. But like so many "technological advances" today, even in DCC, SO much of it has to be backward-compatible that it must make for some real headaches for those IT types.
I remember the 8088 days when if you wanted to access memory in your computer above the 64 kb limit you had to use a DOS command to reach the high memory limit of — one whole megabyte!
rrinker Wow, that's a lot of code just to link a photo.
Right click the photo, then select "inspect" from the bottom of the drop-down menu. Talk about a lot of code
I hope you get things squared away, Ed