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Re: St Helens Photographs

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2025 5:13 pm
by HORT
Is there anyway we can now post pictures on connect?

Re: St Helens Photographs

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 11:00 am
by Dave
It wasn't all that long ago when it was easy to link in images from anywhere: news websites, BBC, or anywhere really, but then they realised that people were leeching their bandwidth on a huge scale, so then they used strategies to thwart that. Once upon a time you could link in pictures from Facebook, but they were among the first to prevent that; they were the ones the others copied. The old free photo-hosting sites like Photobucket went the way of the dinosaur, others in between, and now IMGUR. At one time I used to allow uploads onto the forums or websites, but that can quickly get out of hand and you end up with thousands of images taking up space that nobody ever looks at. It has all turned to – if you'll excuse the expression – shit. By some miracle IMGUR and the UK regime might come to an agreement because nothing indicates that it is a permanent state of affairs. We'll see.

Re: St Helens Photographs

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:10 am
by HORT
So is there any way we can now post photos on here?

Re: St Helens Photographs

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:49 am
by Dave
You could try this one.

https://postimages.org/

Re: St Helens Photographs

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 12:24 am
by Dave
Here's something to allow people to post pictures they have stored in Dropbox.

Grab the share url, then simply put it in the IMG tags.

Or make sure that you're in the full editor mode, paste the link, then highlight and click the insert image icon before you post.

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