The ability to upload images has been added to the message board.  Again, I’d like the thank the Moderators and Pat for helping get this done.

When you are writing a post and you want to upload an image, simply click the little blue button on the left in the toolbar above the post.  I’ve pointed at it in the image below.  You then browse for your image, click it, and it will upload and insert it.

You can then click on the photo and resize it by grabbing a corner of it and reducing its size.  It even tells you what size you are making it in a little gray box that shows up as you resize the image.

I’m setting up a size-controller that will reduce the size of images automatically to something reasonable, but I haven’t tested that one yet.

NOTE - You can still include photos that are already hosted on-line somewhere in the normal way, using the image-button further to the right in the toolbar above the post.  You don’t have to upload a photo that is already hosted somewhere on-line.

Please post here to let us know if you have any problems with the image uploader.

Thanks,

Mark

Just a heads up.  There has been some reports on other message boards that this image uploading plug-in might not work very well with iPhones, unless you are uploading a png file.  I believe the newest iPhones use a “jpeg” extension rather than a “jpg” extension, which doesn’t work well with the code.

Bottomline, please let us know if you have any trouble with the image uploading, and be aware it might not work real well with newer iPhones.  But, if you have a newer iPhone, give it a try.  The reports of problems may be exaggerated.

Mark

This was flat last time I used it, now it’s in major clumps.  My snuff is alive!  …just testing out the new function.  Taken with an iPhone 5, uploaded as a JPEG (.jpg).  I don’t know much about these things, but that’s what my computer says.  Big improvement on my end… I had no luck with pictures before.

Giving it a try. By way of thanks, here’s a pic for your archive, Mr Stinson:

Looks like it embedded well.

@SeanOCDPx , that’s good to know its working with the iPhone.  That is some seriously clumpy snuff!

@cpmcdill, I’ll add it.  Thanks. 

Mark

That snuff box is very cool cpmcdill

Cant seem to upload from my iPad. It selects it, but nothing happens… okay it wont upload from photos, what you have to do is save photo to files on iCloud or on the iPad as a jpeg. Then it works…testing…

Blast, now I cant rotate it, sorry

Yha! Now Android photos don’t upload… WTF!!!

Test. Edit: no go on my end. iPad.

@willynelson have you tried saving the photo to iCloud files or iPad files? Mine would not work unless I did that and then chose the browse option when offered to take photo, photo library or browse. If you choose browse then select from iPad files or iCloud files to where you saved the photo.

Ah! Turns out the problem is that the image was too large. Reduced resolution by about half and it uploaded no problem.

File size should not exceed 2 Mb.

Worked fine for years. Now nota thing… any suggestions.

@nicmizer its not just you. I cant seem to upload today either. will have to faff around with my settings and image sizes. yep as @volunge said, I had to reduce my image so it was under 2mb

The images I tried loading were all well below the maximum. Back working fine now. Just weird!?!

The cameras we have on our phones collect an amazing amount of detail. This also means many times they’re collecting an Absurd amount of detail (also EXIF). Data storage got wildly cheaper between 2005 and 2015. Data transmission continues to get cheaper. But there’s still no free lunch. Something I just looked at is that this forum strips EXIF data on uploaded images, at least all the ones in this thread. That is very, very cool. Most all phones these days when you take a picture embed within the file metadata that provides an interesting, potentially personal identifying array of information. If you have Location enabled on many phone cameras they go the extra mile of identifying precise GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken as well. This is how John McAfee was located in Central America a few years ago - clueless reporters and web content publishers at Vice included photos from their exclusive fugitive interview with GPS coordinates in their EXIF data. Now days increasingly phones, at least Samsungs, don’t embed GPS by default. But they do (they all do) still save some interesting data that, let’s say you work in a small office and take whistleblower photos, could potentially provide enough data to narrow down the potential photographers. My daughter used to have social media. Then I looked at one of her accounts where she had posted a picture of her school bus and the EXIF metadata had the location of her bus stop. Now she’s a teenager and YEAH NO SOCIAL MEDIA (forums like this are the closest I get). So in closing: 2MB is responsible and reasonable in my opinion, and big kudos to this forum for stripping metadata from users’ image uploads. The latter saves paranoids a lot of time.