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Hello all,

I'm looking for some help please on how to post images to the forums.

Previously I have had success using pasteboard.co, as is suggested in the FAQ section of TCDB:

There are also websites like www.pasteboard.co that allow you to upload a file from your computer and will provide you with a URL that you can then use the "Image" tool icon to put into the body of a forum post as described above.

However today I was trying to post an image in a forum post (to illustrate a question I have) using this method without success. I also looked back through an old thread where I had posted images using pasteboard.co and noticed that now all those images are broken.

This is an example what happens if I try to post a link to a picture on pasteboard.co:

The hyperlink seems to work fine in a browser but displays a broken image if I try to use the method in the FAQ above for this forum, i.e. the "Image" tool icon (in the html source I believe this is simply using the tag):

I've also tried Imgur and imgBB image hosting sites and it gives the same result as above.

Please, has anyone got advice on the easiest way to upload images to the forum?

I just used Imgur without any problem.

Interesting. May I ask for some more details: Did you simply click on the "Image" tool icon in the forum post creation toolbar and then add the link provided by Imgur for the image to the URL field?

Here is the result when I try those steps:

For this image: https://imgur.com/AiPhE5N

1. added images to Imgur from computer 2. clicked copy from Imgur 3. TCDB onsite in forum click paste, Ctrl-V and bingo we are on the forum.

Ok, thank you for those steps. Can I confirm that you are pasting the text hyperlink into a forum post, so it shows up like this for example:

https://imgur.com/AiPhE5N

What I was trying to achieve was to show the image directly in a forum post using the html img tag rather than require readers to click on a hyperlink. But I was only trying to do this because I wasn't sure if the forum etiquette was to show the images directly in a post.

I can use hyperlinks as above if that is ok.

Just right click "UD Card" and copy, then paste in the forum post. Really no need to get all fancy. Try it, simple.

Got it!

Thanks for bearing with me :)

I too used Pasteboard but it appears to no longer work for our purposes here, I have not found another option as of yet as the Control V thing on here will not work with my computer. After five years I do wish that a simpler way to upload photos was on the DB. I have asked multiple times for this but I dont even think it is something to vote on.

After Photobucket stop working properly I've been using imgur.com.

I must admit the literal control+v method did not exactly work for me either (for me, it just posts a hyperlink to the image). But it led me to re-examine what URL I was putting into the "Image" tool tag.

In my example I was placing "https://imgur.com/AiPhE5N" in the URL field because this is the auto-generated link from Imgur. But if I right-clicked on the image on Imgur as helpfully suggested by BOBSCARDZ and copied the image location to the clipboard ("https://i.imgur.com/AiPhE5N.jpg") and used this link in the "Image" tool, it works.