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A real beginner question regarding linking to photos on Photo.net


bernd_w._herrmann

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It's been a long while since I've been on Photo.net - over a decade and obviously much has changed. What a huge improvement to be sure. And I'm glad to be back.

 

I have a question about linking photos uploaded to Photo.net to classified ads. For example, some sites allow uploading photos of the gear being sold directly from your PC to your ad, while others only allow links to hosted to photos online. I currently don't have any photo hosting services, and I uploaded the photos of all of the gear I wish to sell to Photo.net.

 

But now I don't know how to link to these photos while posting my ad. When I click on the insert photo button, it brings up a window asking for a url. How can I link to a photo on Photo.net (and should be the photo be checkmarked as "public" or "private?"

 

Thanks...

 

Ben Herrmann

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Hi Ben. 1) I can not answer your Q but you might just re post it in the Help Forum where all hands try to fathom the mysteries of the programming. 2) Huge improvement is optimistic, but we hope you are right eventually. Some stuctural bugs have been worked out while you were gone. I suspect there is a way to do what you desire. And some one knows a way. Are you still a camera whore? ( just kidding)
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There are two ways of doing this:

1) Insert a link to an already hosted picture using the 'chain link' icon. Then paste the URL into the address box that pops up.

2) Insert the image directly into your post by selecting 'More Options' - below - and then 'Upload a File'.

 

Provisos are that inline pictures should be no more than 1000 pixels wide and you should own the copyright in them.

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The problem is that the equipment photos that I uploaded to this site (photo.net) - even when clicked upon - do not show any link to them. Thus it's impossible to link to any of them when you create your posting. I don't have them uploaded to any other site because of the fact you have to pay their linking fees.
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OK. It appears I accidentally clicked some option to change the display of threads. Backing up the browser cured it.

 

But I still can't see any button or menu option that might have caused the change.

 

Perhaps these phantom display options are the cause of people posting to ancient threads?

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And then someone unilaterally messes with the layout. Making it near impossible to read on a portable device!

 

For goodness sake stop needlessly changing things!

 

What's up with the mobile view this time? It looks the same to me. We went through a period of my having to use "request desktop site", but I think we got past it. The most significant recent change I noticed was that I stopped having to log in every day, for some reason; since I consider that a good thing, I haven't queried it. (I don't have "stay logged in" ticked, because that makes the pages reload every couple of seconds until I eventually manage to reset it.)

 

The site redesign has not, from the forum perspective, made things on balance any easier to use or powerful. I'm still typing this in a text box that's greyed out for no obvious reason (months after reporting this as a problem), and I don't have the level of control over the content that I used to have when you could just type plain HTML. Copying text into a quote is particularly painful, and every link I provide I manually set the colour and underscore on, because otherwise people don't notice it's a link (due to a stupid style sheet option). I don't object to the "like" system or the ability to see latest thread updates, though; it's not all bad. I gather the image review system might be improved, but since I never use that, I wouldn't know. I did try looking at the learning articles, but several seemed to be videos that I can't conveniently watch without disturbing people around me, so I've not done anything with that either. I maintain that I'd have preferred them to leave everything alone, but we seem never to have had that option; a number of forum regulars left during the redesign process and haven't come back, and clearly the site changes didn't go down well with a large number of users. It's not clear to me that the redesign brought in new users in droves either. Still, it's not my problem to make the site profitable...

 

Bernd: I think, on this occasion, you can blame the software more than yourself. Like how I typically have to do multiple page refreshes when trying to post images on Nikon Wednesdays before the images upload without a site error. I'm glad you got it to work.

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