Help Adding Images to Forum Posts

Agree, mobile apps and straight desktop is MUCH easier for these things. You're spot on.

Mobile usually is a bit more clunky with web browsers instead of apps, but apps usually like to add unnecessary permissions to their repertoire...which I don't like having them access these things on my phone.

 

I've only used postimages on an Android phone and have always used the direct link (tap on the little “copy” symbol to the right) to post on BA and have never had an ad.
The hotlink adds all of the HTML markup. That isn't needed using BA's insert image. Try direct instead of hot and see how it works for you.

 

Dumb question. Why can’t photos be uploaded directly like untapped? I’ve never understood this.

 

As far as uploading pictures to a specific beer page, photographs need to meet certain guidelines and parameters. 150 pixels by 300 pixels of the beer. Not of a trendy 8-bit glass with the family dog taking up 60% of the picture or some artsy low angle shot of the corner of the beer can.

 

I think it's because this site does not have the resources to store the huge amount of data that comes with the pics that are embeded in the forum posts. The tiny pics that are on the pages of the Beer and Places features are miniscule compared with all of the pics in the forums.

 

Huh? BA doesn’t edit or limit dumb photos from being uploaded. Trust me - I’ve loaded my share of dog/beer photos. They do make you go through a hosting site. My question is why.

 

I'm talking about uploading the 'official' picture of the beer on said beers profile page. BA doesn't have the storage space hence why the limit those pictures to 20kb 150x300

 

They limit the size and specify the dimensions because they store the images, want to limit the cost, and make thing consistent.

 

Ok. I’m talking about every other upload except those.

 

Correct.

 

I’m with you. But I’d prefer to not spend 10 minutes every time I load a pic. w/UTP it takes nano seconds. Am I being too demanding of an advocate ?

 

Apparently ...,,

 

Just attached a picture to ”what beer are you drinking now”. Time spent opening hosting site, uploading photo, copying link, and pasting into post was <20 seconds, most of which was the upload.

 

U should call Guinness.

 

So, I have an issue related to posted images, but not specifically posting an image myself.

I took a break off BA for many months. Since I have come back, there are many IMGUR posts that I effectively cannot see on a mobile device. It’s as if the imbedded photo is GIGANTIC, and only a small portion of it is viewable. I have to try to scroll horizontally inside the image to see it, but I can only ever get about 1/4 the way through before my finger makes it to the edge of my screen. On either side of the photo, there appears to be “dead” space that is gray, as if the photo is a square but the image imbedded is a widescreen.

This does not happen to every single Imgur post, but it does for most that I have viewed here on BA.

What is more peculiar is that if I am viewing a thread with a lot of uploads (eg haul thread), some IMGUr will be obscured like this, but not all. So I don’t think it is a loading issue.

This never happened months ago.

Any idea what’s going on?

 

but at least it only takes 30 seconds to upload...

 

I just saw that my go-to hosting site tinypic is closing down sometime in 2019. So I guess all the photos I’ve posted on BA for the past 7 years are going to disappear. Another downside to the hosting approach vs. direct site storage approach.