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Adding images

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
5:27 AM

Myself and others have been getting mixed results with trying to add images. The times I have tried to add an image I get a thumbnail of the image that can't get any bigger even if I click on it whilst others can insert full size images through the same process.

Is it just me or what??

BTW, you will be getting heaps of bugs being reported as the folks on my Forum are coming in to V3 to test it out for me to see whether I actualy transfer the forum across to it.

David Harvey
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worked it out a bit

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
10:48 AM

After several people doing testing we have worked out how to post an image but it's elongated and painful. This is what I have told my testers to do to post an image.

Go to the lower part of the screen and click on 'Upload' under the heading Attach Photos. It will take you to a file selection box where you go through and find the image you want to add to the post. Once you have clicked on it the image will be a small thumbnail at the base of the screen. Click on the thumbnail and the 'insert' box will light up next to the upload button. Click on this and you will see severa; options of either rescaled or rescaled to width, I use rescaled to mediun or large width. Once you have done this to the size you want you can get rid of the thumbnail by highlighting it then clicking on 'remove image' . This process should get your image on the site and get rid of the thumbnail.

This is too elongated to just post an image.
   
   
   
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
4:08 PM

Just want to say it's definitely good to get all of the bug reports and feedback!  This way, we know what's actually happening from the user's point of view and not just our own.  Since we've been working on this, our perspective defaults to what we're used to, which isn't necessarily what might be the best experience.  So hearing how we can make things easier really helps.

We could change the uploading of images such that it would automatically insert the image into the post when you upload (or have an option to do so which is switched on by default).  The idea of having the box underneath is to eventually provide a lightbox so that when you click one of the thumbnails, the lightbox shows and you see the full image.  We've temporarily taken that out because it was buggy, but the plan is to reimplement it.  We could also add this as an option to display the box in the message once it's been posted.

   
   
   
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Images

Thursday, July 2, 2009
5:03 AM

Thanks for that. More questions though on images - how long will the images stay on the forum for before being deleted? The forum I run is reasonably image heavy due to the nature of it and the guys would like it to stay up for a while.

Q2 - Is posting from a place like photobucket not allowed? If the images don't stay on long as per above then it would be a good idea for the ability to add in images from places like PB.

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Thursday, July 2, 2009
1:19 PM
There's no time limit for how long the images stay up, they should be there indefinitely.  As far as Photobucket is concerned, we plan to integrate their APIs (as well as other services such as Flickr) so you would be able to pull up your Photobucket library and just point and click the image you want to use.  In the meantime, you can add in a URL for an image to insert by using the toolbar in the editor:

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That button should popup a dialog to enter a URL and title for the image:

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Right now it's a little picky about putting in the source - once you do that you'll have to click in another field to enable the Insert button, but I'm working on a fix for that.
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New "Auto Insert" option available soon

Monday, July 6, 2009
5:20 PM
Hi David,

Just wanted to mention that we've added in an "Auto Insert" option to the image uploader.  With this switched on (which it is by default) the image will automatically be put into your post, so there's no need to click on the Insert button after a photo has uploaded.

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Expect that this update should be sent out to the live servers tomorrow!
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