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Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:04 pm
by RAHRL
I have been struggling a few times to upload images to the forum. They seem to upload, but somehow they don't come up as attachment.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Does the site refuse filenames with spaces?
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:38 pm
by Billycar11
Just use imgur or similar if you link to photo directly and put in the makemkv img brackets it will embed with the post
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:19 pm
by RAHRL
Billycar11 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:38 pm
Just use imgur or similar if you link to photo directly and put in the makemkv img brackets it will embed with the post
OK, haven't heard about imgur before, but probably enables me to put an image online and get a url for that image. Good solution, only disadvantage: yet another account.
And it doesn't explain why the MakeMKV doesn't want the images. BTW .txt attachments also do not work.
Thx
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:28 pm
by dcoke22
I don't know why things are they way they are on this forum, but my speculation is it is a way to prevent the storage needs (and the associated costs) of the server from going to super high levels. Even though a single screen shot isn't all that big, over the years the total amount of storage required for that stuff is not nothing.
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:26 pm
by Billycar11
RAHRL wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:19 pm
Billycar11 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:38 pm
Just use imgur or similar if you link to photo directly and put in the makemkv img brackets it will embed with the post
OK, haven't heard about imgur before, but probably enables me to put an image online and get a url for that image. Good solution, only disadvantage: yet another account.
And it doesn't explain why the MakeMKV doesn't want the images. BTW .txt attachments also do not work.
Thx
imgur dont need an account
for txt just put in the code blocks </> symbol
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:42 pm
by Woodstock
As for why you cannot upload... MakeMKV is hosted with limited upload capability. Unfortunately, we hit that limit about a year or so back, and no one seems to want to clean up old uploads. I haven't had time to go and do that. It's been a decade since I had to clean up a forum that way, so my mind doesn't remember if there is a simple way to do it.
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:31 am
by Nucleus
RAHRL wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:04 pm
I have been struggling a few times to upload images to the forum. They seem to upload, but somehow they don't come up as attachment.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Does the site refuse filenames with spaces?
Click "Insert Image" icon in the post dialog which will insert [ img ] [ /img ] (spaced here so the tags show), get url of imgur image and paste between the tags. Eg:
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[img]https://i.imgur.com/v7Nyqud.png[/img]
Then preview your post. There was a great right-click imgur uploader for Windows but it stopped working, I've been using this:
The above example - below.
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:57 am
by RAHRL
Thank you for all the information and examples, it is clear to me now how to do it.
(I tried testing this out, but I don't get it to work at this moment. The image is not coming up in the post. The url itself works in the browser.)
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:35 am
by Billycar11
RAHRL wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:57 am
Thank you for all the information and examples, it is clear to me now how to do it.
(I tried testing this out, but I don't get it to work at this moment. The image is not coming up in the post. The url itself works in the browser.)
Right click the photo on imgur open in new tab and use that URL and it will work as I said the photo directly not the imgur page with the photo
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:40 am
by Nucleus
RAHRL wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:57 am
(I tried testing this out, but I don't get it to work at this moment. The image is not coming up in the post. The url itself works in the browser.)
Do as BillyCarr11 has posted and get the actual image url, are you pasting the url of the Imgur page? Sorry, should have made that more clear in my post - get the actual image url and try again.
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:16 pm
by RAHRL
Re: Why can't I upload images to the MakeMKV.com forum?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:38 pm
by Nucleus
Now if you put that between [ img ] [ /img ] (close the spaces) tags it will display inline in your post.
