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You just need to use a 3rd party image hosting site like Flickr.
Sometimes I feel like the only person who has no problems with this.
Once or twice I had a brief issue when the server was acting up, but other than that no issues. I do most of my image uploading in the mobile app, and then I use the web UI to compose posts using those image. Works fine, always.
Sometimes I feel like the only person who has no problems with this.
Once or twice I had a brief issue when the server was acting up, but other than that no issues. I do most of my image uploading in the mobile app, and then I use the web UI to compose posts using those image. Works fine, always.
I understand why you would feel that way.Using a multiple-step process, like first uploading to a 3rd party site before posting here, or using the app for uploading and using the web UI for composing is included in the idea “it sucks”.
I understand why you would feel that way.
However, I look at it like this:
1) almost 100% of my pictures start off on my phone. Therefore, it makes by far the most sense to upload from there.
2) except for the briefest of replies, it is by far easier to enter postings via the web.
So the two-step process is for me a natural result of some basic facts of life, nothing to do with the details of TRF's implementation.
There are a couple of changes I would like to see, though. First would be the ability to upload multiple images simultaneously, both through the app and the web. The second is the ability to control the size an image is displayed. Right now the only things I've figured out are thumbnails (attachments only, not available for images linked from elsewhere on the web) and full-sized. A middle ground would be nice sometimes.
You can do 10 pics per post via mobile, it's just that you have to select one at a time. I think the web UI is the same.The reason I upload from my computer using the web UI is that you CAN upload up to 10 pics at a time per post, and you CAN resize the images — but only when it works correctly.
Yeah, that sucks, I have no idea what's up with that. Maybe I've just been lucky but I've not had a single problem like that, and I upload a lot of pictures on a pretty regular basis.Take a look at this post: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...tom-project-for-LDRS-37&p=1790185#post1790185
You can do 10 pics per post via mobile, it's just that you have to select one at a time. I think the web UI is the same.
However, resizing the images? I see no obvious way to do that, what's the trick?
Yeah, that sucks, I have no idea what's up with that. Maybe I've just been lucky but I've not had a single problem like that, and I upload a lot of pictures on a pretty regular basis.
I just put a thread into the Feedback subforum. Although I can use the basic uploader in FireFox and even select multiple files, the uploader crashes for me after it uploads them, but before it inserts them into the message. I have to go into the advanced editor and mess with them there. I put pictures in my mini thread. In Chrome it was worse. Couldn't upload anything, except in the Advanced / Manage Attachments method.
Even two months ago I could upload without a problem as long as I enabled the flash component. Something changed... Not sure what :wink:nothing we haven't known about for a very long time!
This thread is a sign of the times. This site is great, it's free, a forum where we share and learn. It's awesome if you stand back and look at it from that perspective.
So, looking at the site from that perspective oint: the civil thing to do if you are not a Forum Contributor is to not complain about the forum web site.
If you are a Forum Contributor, then constructive criticism would be legitimate.
But then again I'm old school and remember when to learn about rocketry I had to go to the library, then order what I wanted via a letter ad then wait 2 to 4 weeks for the parts to arrive.
To say we are living charmed lives today is stating the obvious.
My criticism is not so much a complaint, but an explanation about why I don’t post many pictures anymore. It’s a pain. And it’s an unnecessary and pointless pain, because it used to work, and now it doesn’t. That’s not progress. I’m not going to go through a bunch of hoops to post a build thread. If the forum owners want me to post content, they have to make it easier to post content. I’m putting my Comet build thread on hold, because without pics, there’s not much to say.
To upload multiple images simultaneously using the thing that may or may not screw you up, click the Insert Image (picture icon), chose “From Computer”, click “Choose File”, and select up to 10 files for simultaneous upload. When the images are loaded into the post, they are small. Click on an image in the web UI, and you will have options for resizing the image small, medium, large, or full, plus other formatting options. If you load the images using the attachment tool or the URL option, I think it’s only one at a time, and you don’t have the formatting or sizing options. That’s why I prefer to upload from my computer using the web UI, but it’s flaky sometimes.
The reason I upload from my computer using the web UI is that you CAN upload up to 10 pics at a time per post, and you CAN resize the images — but only when it works correctly.
Take a look at this post: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...tom-project-for-LDRS-37&p=1790185#post1790185
I had been uploading images and resizing them just fine in the previous posts, but at some point the system started refusing to upload, saying I could only upload 10 pics per post, even though I had only uploaded 3 or 4 in that post. And then when I went back to look at previous posts, the images I had uploaded and resized were all replaced with an attachment link. This was a decent amount of work lost, and I’m a bit discouraged to try to fix it.
Another reason this is annoying is that the system used to work flawlessly. Then at some point, it didn’t work at all. And when it was “fixed”, it was not as good, and sometimes it screws up your work like it did to me yesterday. How can something that worked fine 6 years ago be worse today? That’s not supposed to be how technology progresses.
Can you not resize? I see the Attach config before each image number when I go to Edit the post.
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