(answered) posting images in threads - how to?

[ballsin']

Hi i am just wanting to know how i can post an image in a reply to a thread. I am using my mobile to access the site,. Sorry if this has been covered, i tried searching for an answer without success. Thanks in advance.

Edit: in particular, uploading an image. Do i have to go through a third party site and then link it in my post?

 

[addictivepersona]

Do i have to go through a third party site and then link it in my post?

Yes, AFAIK.

Just type [img]http://www.urltoimagehere.com/[/img]

 

[rangrz]

Yes, AFAIK.

Just type [img]http://www.urltoimagehere.com/[/img]

I do that from my Mobile and it never works...

 

[tambourine-man]

Are you using the standard BL skin, or one of the mobile themes? If so, which one?

 

[tackyspiral]

i dont really get the whole third party thing

 

[alasdairm]

^ your image doesn't live on bluelight - it has to already be somewhere on the web and we just link to it. there are many, many free sites on the web to which you can upload your image and subsequently link to for display on bluelight. some of the more popular sites include:

http://www.photobucket.com
http://imageshack.us/
http://www.postimage.org/
http://tinypic.com/

once you upload your pic to one of those, see post #2 in this thread for how to make it appear.

alasdair

 

[rangrz]

Are you using the standard BL skin, or one of the mobile themes? If so, which one?

Regular skin.

 

[alasdairm]

^ can you create a post with some [img][/img] tags around an image url and post it from your phone here.

thanks.

alasdair

 

[Tommyboy]

My image hosting site of choice is http://imgur.com/

Once you upload your image it puts it into code [BBCode (message boards & forums)] for you so that all you have to do is copy/paste it onto here and you are all set.

I have only used it on my computer though so I don't know how well it works with smartphones.

 

[_a_A_C_c_]

posting images from my phone works fine. are you sure your phone isn't adding spaces when you post rangrz?

 

[tambourine-man]

Regular skin.

Exit and re-enter the thread where you've posted. Does it appear?

If not, refresh your cache.

 

[rangrz]

^ can you create a post with some [img][/img] tags around an image url and post it from your phone here.

thanks.

alasdair

 

[_a_A_C_c_]

you have an extra space after the first image tag.

nevermind, it isn't working from my phone either

 

[tambourine-man]

That URL is a dynamic server farm address. That's probably why it isn't parsing.

Try the standard static URL that flickr provide.

 

[Captain Brewster]

Would it be worth using a fake email for signing up with say, photobucket?

Just in terms of being anonymous.

 

[Tommyboy]

^ Probably, although you may need to use a real email account to verify the photobucket account. It only makes sense to use an email address that isn't liked to your personal information in any way, so you should have a separate email account for such things. The reason why I use imgur is because they don't require you to sign up to upload pictures.

 

[King-Anubis]

Just like to add, direct images from www.postimage.org don't seem to work. Imgur.com works fine thought.

 

[alasdairm]

^ this image is hosted at postimage.org:

it works fine. they even give you the vb code...

alasdair