Test post: A screencap I put on postimage.

[CaptainTruth]

I've been trying to find a good image hosting service that won't reveal personal info & will give me a "clean display" of the images I link to here. I've given up on Flickr & Imgur, & I'm trying postimage because I noticed some DUers use it.

This is a test, a Cyclocane screencap. Let me know if you can see the image, & if you can search around & determine any of my personal info (like any postimage account info) from the link.

Pasting the URL:

https://postimg.cc/FddfhzPP

Using the DU "link /link" function:

[link:https://postimg.cc/FddfhzPP|]

Thanks!

[Ptah]

1. This image?

[CaptainTruth]

4. Yes! Thanks! I have a question...

When I view your post, which apparently includes a link to the image, I see this:

[link:https://postimg.cc/4YRpwDfK|]

I see the image in your post. BUT when I view my own post, sharing the image, I see this:

[link:https://postimg.cc/FYb36TzT|]

I don't see the image, I only see the links to the image.

Is this normal? Is this just how DU works, when you share links to your own images you don't see the images in your own post, you only see the links, but everyone else sees the images?

Thanks for your help, I'm just trying to figure out how this works!

[CaptainTruth]

5. Just noting that in my reply to you I don't see any images I linked to, I only see the links.

[emulatorloo]

6. I only see the link to the image. i.e. image not embedded in the post, I gotta click to see it.

Let us know how to do it when you figure it out.

[CaptainTruth]

13. Reply 2 from dweller has the key. When I go to link to an image on Postimage...

...it gives me 8 different links (URLs). I was selecting/copying Link, but when I select/copy Direct Link, I can see the images in my own posts!

[dweller]

2. On postimage

Choose the 2nd option, direct link, copy and paste in your post

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. testing...

direct link as instructed


Yeah, his head was bigger than a basketball and that (under his paw) was the largest Kong toy made at the time.

[CaptainTruth]

10. +1

[CaptainTruth]

8. Thanks!!! In my tests I was choosing Link, not Direct Link.

I'll use Direct Link here:



[link:|]

[CaptainTruth]

9. I can see the image!!! OK y'all, please don't shame me, I'm just now figuring this stuff out, &...

...THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!!!

[dweller]

11. Exactly

Also when you paste your direct link, make sure it ends in jpg
If it doesn’t, erase png or whatever and type in jpg


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[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. png works on DU

Here's a png (not a photograph, of course) :

[CaptainTruth]

14. THANK YOU! Damn, it works! If I ever see you I will buy you a fine craft beer.

Or 2, or 3, or... whatever.

[dweller]

3. Can't see your image

Direct link ends in jpg



As such


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[William Seger]

15. URLS that end in .jpg, .png, .gif, or .bmp are automatically rendered as images

[link] is for rendering a link as a line of clickable text, and [img] tags and most other bracketed tags are not recognized as tags on this board, so they're just copied to the output. You just want a plain URL to a graphics format file.

On Flickr, there is an option to generate a "BBcode" link. It includes a bunch of tags that don't work here, but it is the only option that includes a direct URL to an image file, so you can copy and paste just that URL (or copy and paste everything, then delete everything except the URL), and it will work fine here. (There are also URLs to Flickr pages in the generated code, so make sure you just get the URL for the .jpg file.)

[CaptainTruth]

16. Thanks! I appreciate that.

Good to know I can just paste the link & not mess with the DU "link /link" button. Makes it easier.