How to post pictures

[Lemming]

Although you can still host pictures off-site if you wish, there is now a much easier method using attachments. You can simply drag a picture into the text in the edit window while you're typing your post. You can also use the 'attachments' tab at the bottom of the page.

See here for more.

[avfc-herbalist]

Although you can still host pictures off-site if you wish, there is now a much easier method using attachments. You can simply drag a picture into the text in the edit window while you're typing your post. You can also use the 'attachments' tab at the bottom of the page.

See here for more.

Lem, is there anyway to increase the amount of photo attachments per post? With Imgur now leaving The UK thanks to the online safety act half of my latest travelogue no longer has the photos attached for UK users. I can edit and copy and paste to make new posts to include to the photos as new attachments but it would be so much easier if you could allow unlimited photo attachments to posts in the travelogue section.

What do you think?

[Tokeing tom]

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[Tokeing tom]

I've just learned how to add pictures...it was that easy all along huh attached is a picture of my local bar
..next time I might get the angle rigjt

[AzLaker]

@Tokeing tom. Any way you look at it, it's a nice-looking bar!!!

AzLaker

[Lemming]

Lem, is there anyway to increase the amount of photo attachments per post? With Imgur now leaving The UK thanks to the online safety act half of my latest travelogue no longer has the photos attached for UK users. I can edit and copy and paste to make new posts to include to the photos as new attachments but it would be so much easier if you could allow unlimited photo attachments to posts in the travelogue section.

What do you think?

To be honest, I didn't know there was a limit on the number of attachments in a post.

We first introduced attachments a long time ago when 'Slimline' Peter (RIP) was hosting the forums separately from the main site, which was still on FreeUK. Back then there was a limit on the total size of attachments allowed overall. When we hit that limit, Peter asked me not to increase it because he was concerned about server space. As a result attachments remained unusable for many years.

Later we moved to FBN's server and then to HullDJ's (both also sadly no longer with us). Finally I submitted to paying for server space, which was initially unlimited.

One day I remembered attachments and realised I could revive them again. With unlimited storage there was no reason to restrict anything so when someone pointed out that there was a maximum size for pictures, I removed that limit too.

After FBN died and his hosting deal in USA expired, I moved his site onto the same server. That crashed everything! It turned out the space wasn't unlimited after all.

I solved that problem for a while but we've been tight on space ever since. I realised that we were hosting huge pictures as attachments. They didn't display as huge but they were behind the scenes. (I could rant on all day about camera phones with their tiny lenses and sensors generating enormous images by pointless up-scaling just to give advertisers big megapixel numbers to shout about, but don't get me started.) I found another setting that would get the forum software to shrink large images so that even huge originals became much smaller.

So, where we're at now is that the server space is about 93% full. I've had a few sessions of resizing existing images, both menus and attachments, to free up more space. Whatever I free up is soon used again, though.

The upshot of all of this is that, if you can host your pictures elsewhere, like Imgur, that helps me a lot. I wasn't aware of the issues with that before either. I imagine that will have broken a few old pictures too.

I know that using external hosting of pictures is more complicated so I'd like to keep the attachments feature in place for those who need it but, if you do have the technical know-how to store pictures elsewhere and then embed them in your posts, I'd really appreciate it. Is there a good alternative to Imgur?

[Roccy Tittzenbeer]

I used to use Imgur which was good but is now unavailable to the UK.
Below is a statement copied from their website.
'From September 30, 2025, access to Imgur from the United Kingdom is no longer available. UK users will not be able to log in, view content, or upload images. Imgur content embedded on third-party sites will not display for UK users.'
I don't have an alternative to suggest at this time.
Cheers

[avfc-herbalist]

To be honest, I didn't know there was a limit on the number of attachments in a post.

We first introduced attachments a long time ago when 'Slimline' Peter (RIP) was hosting the forums separately from the main site, which was still on FreeUK. Back then there was a limit on the total size of attachments allowed overall. When we hit that limit, Peter asked me not to increase it because he was concerned about server space. As a result attachments remained unusable for many years.

Later we moved to FBN's server and then to HullDJ's (both also sadly no longer with us). Finally I submitted to paying for server space, which was initially unlimited.

One day I remembered attachments and realised I could revive them again. With unlimited storage there was no reason to restrict anything so when someone pointed out that there was a maximum size for pictures, I removed that limit too.

After FBN died and his hosting deal in USA expired, I moved his site onto the same server. That crashed everything! It turned out the space wasn't unlimited after all.

I solved that problem for a while but we've been tight on space ever since. I realised that we were hosting huge pictures as attachments. They didn't display as huge but they were behind the scenes. (I could rant on all day about camera phones with their tiny lenses and sensors generating enormous images by pointless up-scaling just to give advertisers big megapixel numbers to shout about, but don't get me started.) I found another setting that would get the forum software to shrink large images so that even huge originals became much smaller.

So, where we're at now is that the server space is about 93% full. I've had a few sessions of resizing existing images, both menus and attachments, to free up more space. Whatever I free up is soon used again, though.

The upshot of all of this is that, if you can host your pictures elsewhere, like Imgur, that helps me a lot. I wasn't aware of the issues with that before either. I imagine that will have broken a few old pictures too.

I know that using external hosting of pictures is more complicated so I'd like to keep the attachments feature in place for those who need it but, if you do have the technical know-how to store pictures elsewhere and then embed them in your posts, I'd really appreciate it. Is there a good alternative to Imgur?

Thanks for that Lem. Makes more sense to me now regarding the space issues. I will edit my travelogue soon and link them from a hosting site to help free up a little bit as all of my photos are from my phone. Yeah I imagine lots of great travelogues and posts that used Imgur will now not be viewable to us in The UK. Apparently even using a VPN still doesn’t solve the issue. At least the rest of the world will still be able to view the photos though, Lemming.

Is there a good alternative to Imgur?

I don't have an alternative to suggest at this time.
Cheers

I have done a little research and the consensus on the internet is to use imgbb. I will check it out over the weekend

[Tokeing tom]

@Tokeing tom. Any way you look at it, it's a nice-looking bar!!!

AzLaker

Yes it's a unique little place right on a small dock with about 15 fishing boats parked up outside ..its about 10 min walk from my house on the way up and 25 min on the way back depending

[AzLaker]

@Tokeing tom. Any way you look at it, it's a nice-looking bar!!!

AzLaker

Yes it's a unique little place right on a small dock with about 15 fishing boats parked up outside ..its about 10 min walk from my house on the way up and 25 min on the way back depending

AzLaker

[Jolly]

To be honest, I didn't know there was a limit on the number of attachments in a post.

We first introduced attachments a long time ago when 'Slimline' Peter (RIP) was hosting the forums separately from the main site, which was still on FreeUK. Back then there was a limit on the total size of attachments allowed overall. When we hit that limit, Peter asked me not to increase it because he was concerned about server space. As a result attachments remained unusable for many years.

Later we moved to FBN's server and then to HullDJ's (both also sadly no longer with us). Finally I submitted to paying for server space, which was initially unlimited.

One day I remembered attachments and realised I could revive them again. With unlimited storage there was no reason to restrict anything so when someone pointed out that there was a maximum size for pictures, I removed that limit too.

After FBN died and his hosting deal in USA expired, I moved his site onto the same server. That crashed everything! It turned out the space wasn't unlimited after all.

I solved that problem for a while but we've been tight on space ever since. I realised that we were hosting huge pictures as attachments. They didn't display as huge but they were behind the scenes. (I could rant on all day about camera phones with their tiny lenses and sensors generating enormous images by pointless up-scaling just to give advertisers big megapixel numbers to shout about, but don't get me started.) I found another setting that would get the forum software to shrink large images so that even huge originals became much smaller.

So, where we're at now is that the server space is about 93% full. I've had a few sessions of resizing existing images, both menus and attachments, to free up more space. Whatever I free up is soon used again, though.

The upshot of all of this is that, if you can host your pictures elsewhere, like Imgur, that helps me a lot. I wasn't aware of the issues with that before either. I imagine that will have broken a few old pictures too.

I know that using external hosting of pictures is more complicated so I'd like to keep the attachments feature in place for those who need it but, if you do have the technical know-how to store pictures elsewhere and then embed them in your posts, I'd really appreciate it. Is there a good alternative to Imgur?

Thanks for that Lem. Makes more sense to me now regarding the space issues. I will edit my travelogue soon and link them from a hosting site to help free up a little bit as all of my photos are from my phone. Yeah I imagine lots of great travelogues and posts that used Imgur will now not be viewable to us in The UK. Apparently even using a VPN still doesn’t solve the issue. At least the rest of the world will still be able to view the photos though, Lemming.

Is there a good alternative to Imgur?

I don't have an alternative to suggest at this time.
Cheers

I have done a little research and the consensus on the internet is to use imgbb. I will check it out over the weekend

Yeah imgbb is the site to use. Very quick and easy, no sign up and they dont delete.

Qb