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Originally Posted by EarlyByrdProductions
15+ years on this thread and I still have no idea how to post a photo and not sure why it's so hard   |
You need to learn to distinguish the difference between a web page URL and a photo URL. It looks like what you've been trying to link are web page URL's (and for some reason, even links to scripts for that web page). The web page has images and other things embedded into it, you need to isolate the images by themselves.
Most photo URLs will end with a .jpg or a .jpeg or sometimes a .png or .gif extension. Sometimes there will be query strings after that (which will usually look something like: "?size=large") but in any case those are image files, not web page links.
Let's go to your original link and I'll show you how to get the image URL:
https://imgur.com/a/june-1-2025-broadway-bridge-renovations-mBi9rsC
At that link, right click on the image itself and select "Open image in new tab."
You then get the following opening into a new tab:
https://i.imgur.com/UDkSkJN.jpeg
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Notice that has the .jpeg extension at the end. This is the image file you want.
So then take that entire image url and post it into the forum's opening and closing tags for images:
{img}https://i.imgur.com/UDkSkJN.jpeg{/img}
Except replace my {} with [] and it will work, like this:
However, that is an extremely large photo and for those of us not browsing on a smartphone is really annoying to look at. If these are your own photos it's a nice courtesy to reduce their size before uploading it to your photo hosting service.
I'm personally constantly annoyed by all the people on this and other forums who do not have the courtesy to reduce the size of their excessively-sized photos before trying to hotlink them on the forum.
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