The forum software is dated

[Peter McLennan]

I subscribe to several fora.  Many of them now allow direct importing of images into the forum posts via drag and drop into the post directly from the file manager. 

AFAICS, this isn't possible on this software, it apparently requires hosting somewhere else, and a link to that host site - a multi-step process that inhibits effortless sharing of images.

For a forum about photography, this is a serious lack and, frankly, a major PITA.  We'd see a lot more imagery if it were as easy as on this forum software:

https://xenforo.com/

[Jeremy Roussak]

AFAICS, this isn't possible on this software, it apparently requires hosting somewhere else, and a link to that host site

I don't disagree that the forum software is old and outdated, but that assertion is not correct. External hosting of images is one way of displaying them here, certainly; the other way, which I've used several hundred times over the years, is to upload the image to this site. Your choice.

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Uploading images to the sight directly is so easy I have never bothered trying external hosting.
I agree with Jeremy on this.

[Peter McLennan]

Thanks for correcting me.  I didn't know that direct uploading to the site was possible. 

How is this done? Drag and drop doesn't work.

[mcbroomf]

Click on "Attachments and other options" right under the text box you type your post in

There also a sticky at the top of this forum (9th down) "Attachment : Specs and Tips"

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thanks for correcting me.  I didn't know that direct uploading to the site was possible. 

How is this done? Drag and drop doesn't work.

Click on "Attachments and other options", then on the "Choose File" button. If you click "(more attachments)" you get another such button. You can attach up to four.

See screenshot.

Jeremy

[Peter McLennan]

I'll be darned.  I should read the instructions.  
I chose a file, it shows under "attach" but doesn't appear in "preview".

*edit: You don't get to see it until you commit to "post".

Thanks for the tutorial, Jeremy.

[Jeremy Roussak]

I'll be darned.  I should read the instructions.   I chose a file, it shows under "attach" but doesn't appear in "preview".

I think the customary abbreviation is "RTFM"! But I'm not sure there's an M to R.

No, it doesn't appear in preview. I don't know why. Anyway, you've found it.

Jeremy

[Peter McLennan]

The previously mentioned forum software allows drag and drop placement and dynamic resize.   Most convenient.

[Jeremy Roussak]

The previously mentioned forum software allows drag and drop placement and dynamic resize.   Most convenient.

I don't disagree that the forum software is old and outdated

I'm pretty sure it's the same software that was in use when I first joined, nearly 17 years ago.

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I'm pretty sure it's the same software that was in use when I first joined, nearly 17 years ago.

Jeremy

I think you are right.

Of course the good side of that is that I'm so used to its quirks that its easier for us ancients to use than to have to learn a new system.   

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... AFAICS, this isn't possible on this software, it apparently requires hosting somewhere else, and a link to that host site - a multi-step process that inhibits effortless sharing of images...

In the last 100 years that you've been on this forum, that has been explained like 100 times. You've been living under a rock? Even a caveman knows this by now.

[PeterAit]

Uploading images to the sight directly is so easy I have never bothered trying external hosting.
I agree with Jeremy on this.

I agree also. I have a Lightroom export preset for LuLa that puts the photo on my desktop, where the forum software looks for it. So getting a photo into a post is a 3-4 click process.

[Peter McLennan]

In the last 100 years that you've been on this forum, that has been explained like 100 times. You've been living under a rock? Even a caveman knows this by now.

I copped to not reading ALL the information on the page.  I admitted my ineptitude. What else would you like?  My head on a platter?  My first born son? FFS.

I stand by my original post. Other sites offer realtime previewing of images before posting.  It's still archaic forum software.

[Michael West]

I'm pretty sure it's the same software that was in use when I first joined, nearly 17 years ago.

Jeremy

hines Forum (SMF) software is an open-source, Internet forum, message-board application developed by Simple Machines, LLC. The name reflects the creator's initial goal of providing a website that could be operated by novice programmers and requires minimal server resources.[1] Simple Machines won the forum-software.org best free forum software award in 2009.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Machines_Forum

Id bet it has been pretty much the same since 2001

I like  to think of the software as Traditional.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I like  to think of the software as Traditional.

And you can still use it without a film-changing bag!   

[ramd41@gmail.com]

I copped to not reading ALL the information on the page.  I admitted my ineptitude. What else would you like?  My head on a platter?  My first born son? FFS.

I stand by my original post. Other sites offer realtime previewing of images before posting.  It's still archaic forum software.

Slobodan is like a bot that throws out negative comments to every possible post. Just ignore him, everyone else does.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Slobodan is like a bot that throws out negative comments to every possible post. Just ignore him, everyone else does.

 

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

But without Slobodan here, nobody would think.   

[sf]

Slobodan is like a bot that throws out negative comments to every possible post. Just ignore him, everyone else does.

Is there a reason you have waited six months to post that obnoxious comment about someone who has contributed far more to this forum than you?

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