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Alternative to Imgur for photos

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Posted by Convicted One on Thursday, March 24, 2022 1:26 PM

What I always do, is go down to the "Embed codes" listbox, then select  "BBCode Fully Linked"

Then on the mish-mash they provide, I select [copy] and then paste that into the browsers address window.

 

Then, you have to extract the image url from all the padding they put around it.

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, March 24, 2022 12:41 PM

Was able to access ImgBB  and post photos.  But how do I transfer the photos to this forum?

With imgur one could select "copy image" and then use "ctrl V" to post.

But my computer does not give me a "copy image" choice on ImgBB, or at least I don't know how.

How?

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, March 24, 2022 12:20 PM

Thanks.  I'll give it a try.

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Posted by Convicted One on Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:49 AM

Postimage is worth taking a look at, as is Imgbb

 

Both of those support the .webp fornat, that Imgur does not.    The .webp format is far superior to .gif for animations, not limiting your color range to only 256 colors, as well as compressing to a far smaller file size.

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Alternative to Imgur for photos
Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:00 AM

Any suggestions?

The school's server is giving me a problem on accessing imgur because of some available content there. 

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