On Photobucket:
On OGR:
Post your reply when finished composing. The URL in the browser address bar is for the HTML page displaying the image, not the address for the actual JPG image. The "Direct" field contains the correct URL.
I think this question may have been alluded to at least once but; Is there anyway to indicate who the original poster is that starts a subject, if they don't have an avatar? If not, could that feature be added?
Try this, you don't use the Add Attachments.
I think I tried that before. Here goes:
Now I will try Daz' method:
Even if Daz' method worked, it is still about three times the steps as before, when all I had to do was "paste" the URL.
Also, the reason there are three posts here is that my edit button doesn't work. I can edit, but when I push the little blue
Quick and easy.... go to your hosting site (photobucket for instance). Find the picture you want to post here on the forum. Right click the picture and click on "copy image location". Come back to your post on the forum and click on the "insert/edit image" in the menu bar above. Left click on the "source" and paste the location you copied....then click on the "OK"... Your picture will be displayed!!
Ah, good i can navigate it, just getting used to the new locations of icons. It feels finished and well polished.
Alan, that's exactly what I posted previously for Photobucket. 
Here's the URL for the photo. As you can see, posting it simply provides a link and does not display the photo. I never pasted a photo link with the old software, so I don't know what it did, but now it simply displays the URL, not the photo.
http://i667.photobucket.com/al...trains/Paulstank.jpg
That is the URL you get when you click on the DIRECT menu option on Photobucket.
This is what you should see when you click DIRECT. The word COPIED in yellow only appears for a moment.
When you click on INSERT/EDIT IMAGE on OGR, you get this window:
When you paste the URL in the SOURCE file and click in the IMAGE DESCRIPTION field, you get this. Note the DIMENSIONS field is filled.
When you click OK, you get the image in your post like this:
Testing from my work computer:
Success!
It still runs funny on my IPad......
Peter
I signed in this morning and the background was white. I'm thinking oh good they dumped the gray. No such luck, I was on a different forum....
Putnam Division posted:Testing from my work computer:
......................
Success!
It still runs funny on my IPad......
Peter
But those are not from Photobucket, are they? Photobucket seems to be different than other photo hosting sites in that you don't get a URL to the photo. Even selecting the View Image option gives you this URL:
http://s667.photobucket.com/us...a/Paulstank.jpg.html
Note the HTML at the end. The only way I've found to get a URL to the actual photo is by clicking the DIRECT button as I showed in my post above. I don't know why Bob can't get it to work for him. Maybe if after he selects DIRECT, he can simply post the URL he copied so we can see what got copied.
NOTE: I had trouble if I didn't click in the IMAGE DESCRIPTION field because OGR doesn't seem to like photos that are too big. Clicking the field sets the DIMENSIONS field and appears to shrink the image so OGR will accept it. The same was true when I tried Adding Attachments and my photos were too big. Once I used Picasa or FastStone Image Viewer to shrink them, they posted fine.
Guys....posting photos here is easy. If you are hosting your photos on Photobucket or most other photo hosting sites, it simply does not take any more steps than what I said a few posts above. I am posting from my desktop PC and haven't tried on my mobile devices yet so it may be somewhat different in those cases.
Alan
OGR Ad Man posted:Guys....posting photos here is easy. If you are hosting your photos on Photobucket or most other photo hosting sites, it simply does not take any more steps than what I said a few posts above. I am posting from my desktop PC and haven't tried on my mobile devices yet so it may be somewhat different in those cases.
Alan
Sorry, Alan, but from what I can tell, Photobucket doesn't give you a link to the JPG image unless you go through the DIRECT option I mentioned. If you just copy the URL in the address bar (or use any other method other than DIRECT to get a URL), you get a link with HTML at the end and it simply doesn't work to Insert the image here. I can Insert images all day long from other sites, but Photobucket seems to be different in the way they do things. Go to Bob's Photobucket page and try to Insert one of his photos to see for yourself.
NOTE:
Here you go, this is what I did in Firefox. Using the Insert Image icon from above as I previously described, I get the second picture below. It's really that easy.
bob2 posted:Even if Daz' method worked, it is still about three times the steps as before, when all I had to do was "paste" the URL.
Also, the reason there are three posts here is that my edit button doesn't work. I can edit, but when I push the little blue
Bob, check out my last post. I just did a Ctrl-V to paste the last image in the post just like you said it used to work. Make sure you have a URL that ends with jpg, not html. Like I said, that DID NOT WORK when I tried it earlier in the post where you see the jpg URL for the tank car photo.
Dave, you can copy the URL the same way in IE or Edge, so I don't see why the method doesn't work. Whatever works for you...
Dave, Allen, and all - thanks for attempting to help me. I think the problem is the iPad. There is no "right click -left click" on an iPad. And when I go to the enlarged photo on Photobucket, there is only one option. There used to be four, but Photobucket has changed dramatically within the last year or so, and is no longer very iPad- friendly.
The other problem I was having last night is that I could edit my posts, but then the little blue "Update now" button would not work. I have tried none of that this AM, except to look all over Photobucket for the "direct" link.
For what it is worth, the format is just fine with me - it is puzzling that things that used to work on the iPad no longer work when the intent was to make iPad participation easier. I no longer have to double- click everything, which is nice.
gunrunnerjohn posted:Dave, you can copy the URL the same way in IE or Edge, so I don't see why the method doesn't work. Whatever works for you...
John, as I showed in my last post the method does work using the Copy option in Edge/IE. I was trying to help Bob get the URL on his iPad which either doesn't have the option or I don't know where it is in whatever he's using to view his images on Photobucket. For whatever reason, he appears to be copying the URL that has HTML at the end and that is the wrong URL. If you look closely at the photos I posted, you'll see that the address bar contains an address ending with ".jpg.html". If you go to almost any other photo hosting site, the address bar will contain a link ending with ".jpg", the link to the actual image. And that may be the way Photobucket used to work too before they made all their changes.
bob2 posted:Dave, Allen, and all - thanks for attempting to help me. I think the problem is the iPad. There is no "right click -left click" on an iPad. And when I go to the enlarged photo on Photobucket, there is only one option. There used to be four, but Photobucket has changed dramatically within the last year or so, and is no longer very iPad- friendly.
Bob, did you see/use the DIRECT button I mentioned? Didn't clicking on DIRECT copy the URL, even on the iPad?
Edge is wacky for me, I compose the message fine, but when I post it just disappears into the ether. Yes, I am signed in... Very odd...
I can't view posted videos in full screen. If I go to u-tube full screen works fine. I have tried both chrome & Firefox
Ken M
I think that may be something to do with changes at youtube? They have all been like that for me for a while now. Since before the forum changes.
gunrunnerjohn posted:Edge is wacky for me, I compose the message fine, but when I post it just disappears into the ether. Yes, I am signed in... Very odd...
I've had that happen too, but I don't think it happened with the old site, so I don't know that it's Edge.
rtr12 posted:I think that may be something to do with changes at youtube? They have all been like that for me for a while now. Since before the forum changes.
I agree. I use the option to view them on You Tube where I can view in full screen.
No, Dave. There is no longer a "direct" button on the enlarged Photobucket presentation. There were four options a while ago, but now there is only the one.
Photobucket and Outlook have both made changes that baffle me. The Photobucket thumbnails are now covered with options that I have no use for, and they make the thumbnails lots less useful. Outlook concatenates my e-mails so I cannot find things when I need to - they get buried behind my responses.
My photobucket photos still get posted on other forums, just not here.
Many thanks for trying to help.
Bob , I haven't given up, but rather than continue posting in this thread, I posted a note to your Wall. FWIW, I used Chrome on my phone to look at Photobucket and saw what you mean about the options, but was able to get the correct URL to post here using the "Insert/edit image" option. Hopefully my post will help resolve this for you.
Ken M posted:I can't view posted videos in full screen. If I go to u-tube full screen works fine. I have tried both chrome & Firefox.
This has nothing to do with the forum upgrade. This is a YouTube thing. This has been happening for a long time...long before this upgrade.
Didn't there used to be a way to follow quotes backwards? I found a post that referenced a video, but didn't include a link, so I tried to go back to the quoted post, but couldn't find a way. I had to scroll back to each quoted post until I found the one with the video link.
OGR Webmaster posted:Ken M posted:I can't view posted videos in full screen. If I go to u-tube full screen works fine. I have tried both chrome & Firefox.
This has nothing to do with the forum upgrade. This is a YouTube thing. This has been happening for a long time...long before this upgrade.
Correct, I noticed this well before the upgrade, the only way to go full screen was to first go to YouTube. It's not only here, but anywhere they allow YouTube links.
Hot Water posted:I think this question may have been alluded to at least once but; Is there anyway to indicate who the original poster is that starts a subject, if they don't have an avatar? If not, could that feature be added?
Any answer to this yet?
Thanks Dave. I did not know I even had a "wall". I got the button to work, and it gave me five options, none of which was "direct". Most were ways of buying stuff printed on canvas, etc.
I shall, for now, give up. I think i have bored enough folks with repetitions of early cab forwards anyway. I have other places to post photos.
I suspect these are teething problems - my touch-screen is wtill working about 3/4 of the time, and I have been able to do only one "edit". If one cannot edit, one needs to be more careful, which is not a bad idea from the get-go.
Hot Water posted:Hot Water posted:I think this question may have been alluded to at least once but; Is there anyway to indicate who the original poster is that starts a subject, if they don't have an avatar? If not, could that feature be added?
Any answer to this yet?
Not yet...
OGR Webmaster posted:Hot Water posted:Hot Water posted:I think this question may have been alluded to at least once but; Is there anyway to indicate who the original poster is that starts a subject, if they don't have an avatar? If not, could that feature be added?
Any answer to this yet?
Not yet...
I suggested earlier to make an avatar file with nothing but their forum name. If nothing else it would accomplish the goal until Hoopla fixes it. While not a picture of ones self like in the TOS, at least it could provide the thread starter.
So, no way to see the recent posts heading from a cell phone?
Can you fix the board so that the topics go all the way to the bottom of the page. It really sucks having to flip thru dozens of pages just to complete the last 24 hours. The old board would go thru about 3-4 pages, not with this new and improved junk you have now!
Stubbso....you already have the ability to do what you are requesting. Take a look at the last post on any page and note that you can set the number of replies per page of up to 200. I believe the default is 40. Just click on 200 and the posts will go all the way to the bottom of the page.....
This is a test video, for a non You Tube Video. It is my under standing it must be under 100MB. This video short is 93.8MB.
The time is 37 seconds in HD. / I am using Google Chrome & OGR add an attachment procedures. Before I post, I am seeing a black box with a blue arrow on the left side. Lets see if it works.
When you edit a post, does it still show last edited date and time? Not seeing it in a post I just edited. Not that it's a big deal, just wondering.
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