FAQ: How To Post Images In SOS Forum

[Kwackman]

Who's the hottie with the squeezebox?

He is Shaun the Sheep. From the people that brought you Wallace & Grommit.
He was in one of their movies, then got his own kid's TV show on BBC.

[ManFromGlass]

She's a he? Sorry Shaun, I should have looked under your tail first before posting!

[Wonks]

Your computer obviously needs more RAM.

[Drew Stephenson]

Bah!

(Looks around sheepishly.)

[Forum Admin]

I have renamed this topic and made it a Sticky.

Note: Facebook and Twitter images usually cannot be seen by anyone who does not have an account with them and is logged into their sites, so I strongly advise against posting such image links.

You can link to images on other public sites using the Img button in the Post dialogue box and inserting the image URL. Our site always resizes images to fit within the forum's main text area, so if you are linked to massive images this will add an overhead every time someone loads/views that topic.

As others have stated, it's best all round if you can upload images to your own web site and reference them from there, using the Img button, as you control this and we're less likely to have threads in the future where images show as missing.

Alternatively, I can recommend using the free image-hosting service provided by Imgur at https://imgur.com

[Drew Stephenson]

[ManFromGlass]

(sheep smilie!)

[ConcertinaChap]

Excellent! I'll leave the files I've linked to that are held in Dropbox in place so they can act as a reference if Dropbox change the way they do things again.

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[Guest]

I don’t have to be logged in (twitter or S0S) to see my own twitter linked posted pics, but if one needs a twitter account to see them, dang…

But seeing as you can post several pics on one Twitter post and then link them separately and once they’re up you don’t have to sign in to Twitter to use ‘em, it’s dead simple too, a no brainer



for a no-brain like moi innit.

[Guest]

Er, for those that cain't see my fab pic, it's a sickly-green graffiti smiley, so don't feel left out cos you ain't missing anyfin' anyway.

[Guest]

Erm, ditto.

[ConcertinaChap]

Incidentally, for those who couldn't see Boris earlier here he is (using the raw=1 Dropbox hack):



Edit: perhaps you still can't if using Safari. As you were).

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[Forum Admin]

Er, for those that cain't see my fab pic, it's a sickly-green graffiti smiley, so don't feel left out cos you ain't missing anyfin' anyway.

Think this might have something to do with your Guest status. Guests do not have image posting permissions (I think).

[pigface1]

Just testing Dropbox after my miserable failure in the photos thread ...



and it works using the raw=1 hack.

[Folderol]

Just testing Dropbox after my miserable failure in the photos thread ...



and it works using the raw=1 hack.

Excuse my inquisitiveness, but you've been here for nearly 11 years, yet have made more posts today than all the rest put together.
I'm curious (so some would say)

[Eddy Deegan]

Excuse my inquisitiveness, but you've been here for nearly 11 years, yet have made more posts today than all the rest put together.
I'm curious (so some would say)

There's nowt wrong with being a lurker, and as our quiet friend states in the photo thread:

I'm just a lurker here, but I must say I am really enjoying the photos in this thread.

After all, one has to be a registered user to see posts in the Lounge. I'm glad to see that something prompted you to post, pigface1

[Folderol]

Ah missed that - excuse the noise
Too many lovely pictures distracting me?

[Martin Walker]

Were you trying to frame pigface1, Folderol?

Might be vaguely appropriate in the circumstances

Martin

[Wonks]

If you are wondering what image types the forum supports and will display using the 'img' tags:

We've restricted image file formats that can be linked to using the [img] BBcode tags to the following types:

gif
jpg
jpeg
png
tga
tif
tiff

[alexis]

if you have dropbox, a link to an image there will work just fine, if you just change the last character from 0 to 1 (i.e. ....link...&dl=0 to ....link...&dl=1).

Of course, if you remove the image from Dropbox the link will become invalid, but at least is under your control.

For Dropbox - can someone please give a detailed repro of how to post an image (not just a link to a Dropbox image) to these fora?

[James Perrett]

For Dropbox - can someone please give a detailed repro of how to post an image (not just a link to a Dropbox image) to these fora?

I'm not actually sure that you can nowadays as you need a direct link to the file itself which has to end in the file name. That's why Imgur is so popular, because it caters directly for forums like this with just a right click to choose the PHPBB link.

[alexis]

For Dropbox - can someone please give a detailed repro of how to post an image (not just a link to a Dropbox image) to these fora?

I'm not actually sure that you can nowadays as you need a direct link to the file itself which has to end in the file name. That's why Imgur is so popular, because it caters directly for forums like this with just a right click to choose the PHPBB link.

Great, thanks James, looks like it's worth signing up for just one more thing then.

Signed,

Mr. Creosote

[ConcertinaChap]

For Dropbox - can someone please give a detailed repro of how to post an image (not just a link to a Dropbox image) to these fora?

I'm not actually sure that you can nowadays as you need a direct link to the file itself which has to end in the file name. That's why Imgur is so popular, because it caters directly for forums like this with just a right click to choose the PHPBB link.

Sorry, only just noticed this. It's actually quite easy to post images stored on Dropbox, though it's not at all obvious and you need to do a fair bit of digging on the Dropbox site to find it.

First, right click on the file in Finder or Windows Explorer and select Copy Dropbox link.

Next paste this inside the img tag in the normal way.

Now the clever bit. You will notice the string of characters ends &dl=0
Edit this so it reads &raw=1

You will find your image now displays fine. Here's an example, use the quote post option if you want to see what the link looks like:



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