Problems posting pictures?
- Thread starter JohnM
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Not sure if there is new issues, being a new member it took a bit to figure out posting photos.
I found that using the “attachment link” did not work for me.
I’m using imgur site for photos.
What I got to work was coping my BCC photo link from imgur site THEN pasting it at the bottom of the text body NOT in the attachment link.
Preview of post showed photo also.
It worked for me but maybe there is a new issue.
lastditch
I found that using the “attachment link” did not work for me.
I’m using imgur site for photos.
What I got to work was coping my BCC photo link from imgur site THEN pasting it at the bottom of the text body NOT in the attachment link.
Preview of post showed photo also.
It worked for me but maybe there is a new issue.
lastditch
ww1czechlegion
Well-known member
As of today, I'm still having photo hosting uploading problems here.
The message I receive is still the same: "Error parsing server response."
Not sure what happened here with the photo hosting capability.
Best Regards,
Alan
The message I receive is still the same: "Error parsing server response."
Not sure what happened here with the photo hosting capability.
Best Regards,
Alan
Amybellars
Well-known member
Steglitz said:
tried the above, it works for me so far
ww1czechlegion
Well-known member
Sorry, I'm not using "Imgur" service to post photos here. If that's what it's going to be from here forward, then you've probably lost me from posting photos on threads, like we've lost Steve McFarland from posting on here the past year or more, and others as well.
There's a problem here with directly posting photos as we had been able to do for the past year or two.
I realize that it is the holidays with Christmas & New Years and people are busy with family, etc.
It seems that there is no acknowledgement from tech support that they know a problem exists, that it is being worked on, or that they know how to fix it. This problem happened at least 2-weeks ago, coinciding about the time the forum was down for 24-hours or there about in time.
Best Regards,
Alan
There's a problem here with directly posting photos as we had been able to do for the past year or two.
I realize that it is the holidays with Christmas & New Years and people are busy with family, etc.
It seems that there is no acknowledgement from tech support that they know a problem exists, that it is being worked on, or that they know how to fix it. This problem happened at least 2-weeks ago, coinciding about the time the forum was down for 24-hours or there about in time.
Best Regards,
Alan
aicusv
Well-known member
I'm no longer receiving the error code when I attempt to post an image. What is happening, is that "step4"(as listed below) is not available, never brings up the "Place in line" box. I do not believe it is importing the image.
"Here is the step by step...posting pictures now, is actually easier, because you no longer have to post your picture from your computer to a host like PhotoBucket :x that we used previously and then to the Forum. So we have eliminated one step in the process, the forum now hosts all pics. So here goes:
1) when making a comment and adding pics or starting a new post with pics....left click on: "Full Editor & Preview". That will open up a larger window.
2) the white space is where you will type your text comments and place your picture URL codes. Scroll down a bit and you will see "Attachments" in red. Left click on this.
3) a small box "Add files" will appear again on the lower left.. Left click on that, and it will take you to the picture files on your computer. Next choose your pics (no more than 5 at once) and then left click on "Open". This takes you back to the forum and you will see the url code of each pic and a green bar which shows them being loaded onto your forum post.
4) once a pic has been loaded you will see a small box "Place in line" beside each pic code. You are now ready to post your pictures. Put your cursor back in the white space (Pics and text) click, then go back down to Place in line and left click on that. The URL code for the pic will now be in your Text Box where the cursor was and you can add a comment then click on preview or submit if you are done. This is how you organize the placement of text and pictures in the post. You use the placement of the cursor to determine where things will appear."
"Here is the step by step...posting pictures now, is actually easier, because you no longer have to post your picture from your computer to a host like PhotoBucket :x that we used previously and then to the Forum. So we have eliminated one step in the process, the forum now hosts all pics. So here goes:
1) when making a comment and adding pics or starting a new post with pics....left click on: "Full Editor & Preview". That will open up a larger window.
2) the white space is where you will type your text comments and place your picture URL codes. Scroll down a bit and you will see "Attachments" in red. Left click on this.
3) a small box "Add files" will appear again on the lower left.. Left click on that, and it will take you to the picture files on your computer. Next choose your pics (no more than 5 at once) and then left click on "Open". This takes you back to the forum and you will see the url code of each pic and a green bar which shows them being loaded onto your forum post.
4) once a pic has been loaded you will see a small box "Place in line" beside each pic code. You are now ready to post your pictures. Put your cursor back in the white space (Pics and text) click, then go back down to Place in line and left click on that. The URL code for the pic will now be in your Text Box where the cursor was and you can add a comment then click on preview or submit if you are done. This is how you organize the placement of text and pictures in the post. You use the placement of the cursor to determine where things will appear."
let's just be patient guy's, Brian is travelling down from Canada to Florida for the winter, I am sure when he gets settled he will get this figured out.
I have never used the website for posting photo's so not sure what the problem is, but sure it can get fixed.
I know not all want to do this, but I have had tremendous luck with Smugmug for posting my pics, it is only one copy and click.
James
I have never used the website for posting photo's so not sure what the problem is, but sure it can get fixed.
I know not all want to do this, but I have had tremendous luck with Smugmug for posting my pics, it is only one copy and click.
James
We are in Fla now. Tech. support did respond, so he is aware of the problem. I realize that this is frustrating but please be patient. We may in fact be in for a major change/overhaul of the hosting platform of our site. My son Logan tells me that we are a bit outdated......this may be connected to the picture problem. I will keep everyone informed here on what is happening. Like James, I also use Smugmug.
I just had a text today from my son Logan who is much more computer literate than I ...."The Amazon Photo Server is running fine. The issue is on the end of the PHPBB program which is used to create/host the forum." Amazon hosts the pictures. Logan also knows our tech support and will be talking to him.
OK, the problem with posting pictures has been fixed by our tech support! :thumb up: Here is his latest email to me:
"Picture uploading should be working now.
Turns out the images were being uploaded successfully but phpBB wasn't returning the status correctly to the frontend. Seems to be a bug in phpBB itself which I'll report but for now I've got it working by making a small change to the includes/startup.php file to prevent it from breaking the JSON output."
"Picture uploading should be working now.
Turns out the images were being uploaded successfully but phpBB wasn't returning the status correctly to the frontend. Seems to be a bug in phpBB itself which I'll report but for now I've got it working by making a small change to the includes/startup.php file to prevent it from breaking the JSON output."
I agree with you totally John regarding posting here and not on other platforms. However, when you get into multiple pics in my experience, the forum is frustrating and ponderous. Consequently, I have opted for Smugmug but I too wonder about the future of this irreplaceable Pickelhaube Forum Reference which we have all created. We shall see, perhaps we ditch Amazon for something else.
ww1czechlegion
Well-known member
Thanks Brian, I appreciate this very much! =D>
I also agree with you John, as Brian states as well.
As a side note on this, a couple days ago I was viewing one of our member's photobucket images he posted on an older thread. (Remember, we have to now click on them to go directly to the photo bucket web site to view the photos clearly, and not all blurry like they appear on here.) It was not our forum member's fault, but what happened when I was clicking on the photos took me Totally By Surprise. Guess what happened on the photobucket website??? That lousy website has pop-ups on it for advertising, and Thank God my Norton Anti-Virus caught and Blocked a malicious pop-up that came through on that piece of garbage photobucket web site.
I also do not normally get any pop-ups on my browser because of the setting level I have selected.
So to me this is one more big reason as to why I believe it is in the best interest of this forum, if at all possible, to continue hosting our own photos directly on here. We never know what fiasco may lie ahead of us with outside photo hosting sites, and the way they may change the rules of the game in the future, just as photo bucket chose to do to us here that sadly wreaked disaster with so many of our important information threads on this fantastic forum. Sadly we lost a lot of superb information on some of those old outside photo hosted threads that now are almost useless without the photos on them.
Best Regards,
Alan
I also agree with you John, as Brian states as well.
As a side note on this, a couple days ago I was viewing one of our member's photobucket images he posted on an older thread. (Remember, we have to now click on them to go directly to the photo bucket web site to view the photos clearly, and not all blurry like they appear on here.) It was not our forum member's fault, but what happened when I was clicking on the photos took me Totally By Surprise. Guess what happened on the photobucket website??? That lousy website has pop-ups on it for advertising, and Thank God my Norton Anti-Virus caught and Blocked a malicious pop-up that came through on that piece of garbage photobucket web site.
I also do not normally get any pop-ups on my browser because of the setting level I have selected.
So to me this is one more big reason as to why I believe it is in the best interest of this forum, if at all possible, to continue hosting our own photos directly on here. We never know what fiasco may lie ahead of us with outside photo hosting sites, and the way they may change the rules of the game in the future, just as photo bucket chose to do to us here that sadly wreaked disaster with so many of our important information threads on this fantastic forum. Sadly we lost a lot of superb information on some of those old outside photo hosted threads that now are almost useless without the photos on them.
Best Regards,
Alan
As a High School History teacher of over 3.5 decades I am very much aware of the value of what we have created here. As I get older, I begin to think more often about what happens to the forum in the future. We all have an “expiry “ date and so far I have no health concerns but I have talked to Logan about keeping this alive if something should happen. Regarding the picture issue, I am going to talk to tech support and hopefully get some suggestions about getting something that is more user friendly. I am also going to go back into some of my older posts and fix the damage caused by Pbucket.
