@HumanEvoSP its a website (imgur), you can find it here, then you upload your pic and open it, after you open, then copy the link, it starts w i.imgur so if you copy just imgur your not doing it right ;)
@sflanker ok. Sorry I didn’t mean to make anyone upset. It makes sense. With that in mind, it would probably be a good idea to follow SimpleRockets example and change my website to not do this. Never assessed the risk of copyright.
@Tweedle_Aerospace Well first off, as a volunteer moderator I don't have the ability to modify the source code of this website, so "you guys" isn't really a meaningful category here. Secondly I would speculate that the developers didn't want to deal with hosting large volumes of images from arbitrary sources. When you start letting people upload any image you run into a number of issues: users can upload arbitrarily large images, you don't have control over source image encoding so you have to validate images and possibly re-encode, there is an increased risk of copyright violations and resulting liability or having to deal with take down notices, you have to pay the storage costs and maintain network infrastructure to serve files to browsers. Services like imgur exist solely because other people don't want to have to deal with these issues, and imgur chooses to focus on that as their entire business and monetize it with ads.
You could certainly submit a suggestion to have the website support attaching files including images to forum posts. I will grant you that other forums out there do support this. However, there's a lot of things the developers could be working, and most users seem to be able to figure out how to host and embed images using the current system. So I wouldn't make this a priority if it were up to me.
The URL you are currently using: https://ibb.co/23cnDRL does return an image, it returns an HTML file, and for some reason when the webpage requests it for an image tag it actually responds with an error. You need to use an image hosting service that supports cross domain image embedding. Google Drive will not work because the URL for an image hosted in google drive returns a html page that displays the image, and the actual image URL is only temporary (it will start to return an error after a few minutes).
@Chtite451SR2 I think that is only for computers. It says that the page doesn’t exist. I am on mobile. My computer doesn’t have WiFi and we don’t have a wired connection. My wifi chip is loose.
@Tweedle_Aerospace you go here and put your pic in there, then you can open the photo, and then you copy its link, example: i.imgur/jUsReia.jpeg
(that doesnt actually work its an example)
@Tweedle_Aerospace thats not how it works, you got to upload it somewhere, like imgur (thats what i use XD) and once its uploaded you can open the pic and copy its link, you want to copy i.imgur not imgur
@HumanEvoSP its a website (imgur), you can find it here, then you upload your pic and open it, after you open, then copy the link, it starts w i.imgur so if you copy just imgur your not doing it right ;)
@Chtite451SR2 pls i just didnt get the i.imgur part ?
@sflanker ok. Sorry I didn’t mean to make anyone upset. It makes sense. With that in mind, it would probably be a good idea to follow SimpleRockets example and change my website to not do this. Never assessed the risk of copyright.
@Tweedle_Aerospace Well first off, as a volunteer moderator I don't have the ability to modify the source code of this website, so "you guys" isn't really a meaningful category here. Secondly I would speculate that the developers didn't want to deal with hosting large volumes of images from arbitrary sources. When you start letting people upload any image you run into a number of issues: users can upload arbitrarily large images, you don't have control over source image encoding so you have to validate images and possibly re-encode, there is an increased risk of copyright violations and resulting liability or having to deal with take down notices, you have to pay the storage costs and maintain network infrastructure to serve files to browsers. Services like imgur exist solely because other people don't want to have to deal with these issues, and imgur chooses to focus on that as their entire business and monetize it with ads.
You could certainly submit a suggestion to have the website support attaching files including images to forum posts. I will grant you that other forums out there do support this. However, there's a lot of things the developers could be working, and most users seem to be able to figure out how to host and embed images using the current system. So I wouldn't make this a priority if it were up to me.
@sflanker why don’t you guys just use a thing like emails and just say browse files. Many websites already do this.
@sflanker okay
The URL you are currently using: https://ibb.co/23cnDRL does return an image, it returns an HTML file, and for some reason when the webpage requests it for an image tag it actually responds with an error. You need to use an image hosting service that supports cross domain image embedding. Google Drive will not work because the URL for an image hosted in google drive returns a html page that displays the image, and the actual image URL is only temporary (it will start to return an error after a few minutes).
@Tweedle_Aerospace idk... you can try drive but idk if it will work
@Chtite451SR2 still doesn’t work. There isn’t anywhere that says upload or anything.
@Tweedle_Aerospace mabye, but i never tested so idk
@Chtite451SR2 would it work with Google drive or something?
@Tweedle_Aerospace oh... this? (one more try XD)
@Chtite451SR2 I think that is only for computers. It says that the page doesn’t exist. I am on mobile. My computer doesn’t have WiFi and we don’t have a wired connection. My wifi chip is loose.
@Tweedle_Aerospace you go here and put your pic in there, then you can open the photo, and then you copy its link, example: i.imgur/jUsReia.jpeg
(that doesnt actually work its an example)
@Chtite451SR2 well then how do I upload things?
@Tweedle_Aerospace you dont need the app, i go on the website
(i help the community quiet a bit, i feel like i should be a moderator lol but idc about that i like how i am now XD)
@Chtite451SR2 is there anywhere else?
@Chtite451SR2 I can’t. I can’t download the app.
but
![ ]()is right, its the photo that needs fixing@Tweedle_Aerospace thats not how it works, you got to upload it somewhere, like imgur (thats what i use XD) and once its uploaded you can open the pic and copy its link, you want to copy i.imgur not imgur
@Chtite451SR2 I did this ![ ] (IMG_2502) without the space in between. I just wanted it to appear.
I didn’t use anything to make it into a link. I just pressed info on files.
@Tweedle_Aerospace did you do format? if so what did you use to make the photo into a kind of link (i.e imgur for example)
It only came up with a square. It is supposed to be a random IAAR photo that I have.