I see a some of our friends have been having difficulty posting contributions with photos, and I have also had a similar problem – though that was most probably my fault. The old Forum had a lot of useful information on posting but I haven't been able to locate much of this in the archives.

So to help us non-computer friendly folk, and as we also seem to be getting contributions from new guests who may not be familiar with the system, please could we have a comprehensive child's guide to posting photos, from the use of Photobucket through to their insertion in a post? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

John E

Nothing has changed from the old forum; except the instructions have not been reposted. You sill host your photos on an external site and place the image's URL between the Img code--there is even a easy to use button. Code that looks like this:

Will look like this:


We'll see what we can do about posting photo instructions.

ROCK ON!

Thanks -- Don't think I'll post that one though, he looks a bit off-topic!

John E

Maybe it's the band .38 Special

Are you saying that we can only post photos from a different website?? I need to post photos from my hard drive files to the forum. Surely that is possible! If not, then whst's the purpose?? When I click on the Img button I would think I should get a browse tool or something to select the photo that I need to post but that does not happen. I cannot paste a photo into the forum either! What gives??

jleon
Most forums don't allow direct posting of photos.
Open up a free PB account ( www.photobucket.com)
Upload the photos from your card drive to PB
Copy the URL (web address) of your photo, click the forum "IMG" button and paste the URL between the 2 inner brackets.
OR copy the "IMG Code" (bottom selection on PB) and paste it into your post (this code string includes the same tags as the "IMG" button does)

@jleonardindy, tailgunner is correct; we specifically do not allow image hosting. we do this for a few reasons. the most compelling one is that we do not want to inadvertently host porn. prior to me building forum v. 2 (we are at v. 3) we were inundated with porn spam. it's cooled off the last couple of years as me, ron, john s and others wield different tools and virtual battle axes against malicious registrations and posts. if we start hosting images, it takes up more room on the server, more room = more $. hosting the images would also go against our data flow limits, which again would cost the IAA more money. the all text forum, as is right now, is over 160-megs which I back up every week; throw photos into the loop and we are going to really start moving data. i'd also have to code an image hosting application, and well, my hands are full with just the forum
all that said, and as tailgunner said, there are a plethora of image hosting sites; sites that do a way better job of hosting images than we can do and they are free! so i encourage you, as everyone else has done, to utilize an image hosting solution external to the forum and post photos--because we all love photos of ammo!
if you have any questions, please let me know.

chris.