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Old Posted Mar 30, 2021, 2:23 AM
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How to link to images hosted on other services

Flickr:

1) While viewing the individual photo from your photostream, click on the Download button (in the lower-right corner), the select View all sizes:



2) From the list of possible sizes displayed above your image, click on Large 1024 (1024 × 768).
3) Right-click on the resulting image and choose Copy image location (might be slightly different wording in your browser). The link will look something like this: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...782100c0_b.jpg
4) In your forum post, click the Insert Image icon and then paste the image link:




Other hosting services:

For others who don't use Flickr, you need to upload your image to some other hosting service, then link to it from your forum post. Here's the process for doing this in Imgur, but it will be similar for other services (like http://postimages.org, http://imgbb.com, etc):

1) Go to https://imgur.com. You don't need an account.
2) Click New Post to a create a new post.
3) Drag or paste your image to the page, or choose it from your computer.
4) Once the image is uploaded and displayed, right-click on it and choose "Copy image location" (might be slightly different wording in your browser). The link will look something like this: https://i.imgur.com/abcdefg.png



5) In your forum post, click the Insert Image icon and then paste the image link:



That's about it. Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty straightforward.

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Old Posted Mar 30, 2021, 2:26 PM
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Great idea for a thread. Would it be possible to pin it to the top of the General Discussions thread?

How to embed a YouTube link.
  1. Find the video you would like to post on the forum. In this case, I'll post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f85c-2_SbxM;
  2. Copy paste what's after the "=";
  3. Click on Preview/Go Advanced (next to Submit Reply);
  4. Click on the YouTube icon in the tool bar and paste.
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2021, 2:29 PM
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The BBCode Guide, in the message tool bar, provides many formatting options for our posts. If ever you see someone who used a formatting you would like to replicate, quote the post to see how they did it.
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O.P. you need to put the link to this thread in your signature.
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2021, 5:09 PM
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Great idea for a thread. Would it be possible to pin it to the top of the General Discussions thread?
Yup, already is!
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2021, 5:15 PM
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Does anyone know what i can do to make my laptop show all the posted pics? For some reason, a fair amount of them don't appear when I'm on this site while on the laptop, but I can see pics when I visit the site on my phone.
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2021, 8:04 PM
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Yup, already is!
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Old Posted Oct 25, 2021, 12:45 PM
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How do we find threads that are beyond those visibly listed? This is particularly a problem with the Canada forum, where we can only see three pages of the most recently posted threads.

Ex. Currently looking for the Great Canadian Demolition Thread.
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How do we find threads that are beyond those visibly listed? This is particularly a problem with the Canada forum, where we can only see three pages of the most recently posted threads.

Ex. Currently looking for the Great Canadian Demolition Thread.
Google does better searches than the forum does
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Old Posted Oct 25, 2021, 2:47 PM
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Google does better searches than the forum does
Right you are! Found it pretty quickly using Google.
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Old Posted Nov 24, 2023, 6:41 PM
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Useful tip I thought we should add here:

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To resize a photo no imgur, you can add "h" in the image url before ".jpg": https://i.imgur.com/4p3X9Gi.jpg -> https://i.imgur.com/4p3X9Gih.jpg

Or better yet, use flickr, there you can select the size to share.
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