I can't post photos

[BuddhaBelle]

okay I promise I've done my research and I don't think I'm being daft but I can't post photos?

I should have the users permissions and I am using both imgur and imgbb but they are not uploading. My post just appears with no photos.

Any advice?

[TatsuOni]

Could you share a link to a photo from one of the sites? It's easier to help you that way

[lapushka]

If you upload a picture to imgur. Click on that uploaded picture. To the right there will be a list of "codes", copy & paste the BBcode into a message and that should do it (do not use the IMG tags here in the message, just copy/paste the code straight away).

[shelomit]

Imgur is a popular hosting site with many users; I use postimages.org out of old habit. It gives you multiple sizes of hotlink to copy after you upload a photo. I simply select "hotlink for forums" (a mid-size image, in other words) and paste the code into the text box on LHC.

[GordonMurphella]

Imgur is a popular hosting site with many users; I use postimages.org out of old habit. It gives you multiple sizes of hotlink to copy after you upload a photo. I simply select "hotlink for forums" (a mid-size image, in other words) and paste the code into the text box on LHC.

Please don't suggest hotlinking! Thanks

[BuddhaBelle]

Could you share a link to a photo from one of the sites? It's easier to help you that way

If you upload a picture to imgur. Click on that uploaded picture. To the right there will be a list of "codes", copy & paste the BBcode into a message and that should do it (do not use the IMG tags here in the message, just copy/paste the code straight away).

Lets test this out

[BuddhaBelle]

it worked! thank you all so much <3

[lapushka]

Oh awesome!

[shelomit]

Please don't suggest hotlinking! Thanks

Oh, I think there is some confusion here. I certainly do not intend to advocate for hotlinking from just any source. Postimage is an image hosting service which--like many such sites--specifically permits embedding/hotlinking in its terms of service.

Since LHC doesn't allow people to host pictures on the site except in an album, there is no way for users who don't yet have album permissions to post photos except by embedding an image hosted somewhere else. The point is to use an image-hosting site that permits it. See Flaxen's old thread on this topic: "When you insert a picture-link with the [IMG] tags into a post, it causes traffic for the site it is hosted at. This uses their bandwith every single time the forum-page containing the image is loaded/viewed by someone. Which can cause costs for the hosting-site and is illegal. Exceptions are image-hosting sites which offer space and bandwidth to upload images as a service. Like flickr, photobucket or ImageShack just to name a few."

it worked! thank you all so much <3

Wonderful : D

[lapushka]

Oh, I think there is some confusion here. I certainly do not intend to advocate for hotlinking from just any source. Postimage is an image hosting service which--like many such sites--specifically permits embedding/hotlinking in its terms of service.

Since LHC doesn't allow people to host pictures on the site except in an album, there is no way for users who don't yet have album permissions to post photos except by embedding an image hosted somewhere else. The point is to use an image-hosting site that permits it. See Flaxen's old thread on this topic: "When you insert a picture-link with the [IMG] tags into a post, it causes traffic for the site it is hosted at. This uses their bandwith every single time the forum-page containing the image is loaded/viewed by someone. Which can cause costs for the hosting-site and is illegal. Exceptions are image-hosting sites which offer space and bandwidth to upload images as a service. Like flickr, photobucket or ImageShack just to name a few."

If you own the picture, I see no issue really, maybe the term "hotlinking" is confusing? Not sure that's what you meant.