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Hi everyone!

We've just enabled an option that lets you upload your images straight to the forum. This means you don't have to rely on sites like imageshack any more (unless you really want to!). We'll also hold on to the images for as long as the forum stays on line so your posts will never have broken images again!

Right now images are limited to 800x600 and 2MB in size. We're still tweaking the system and trying to figure out the best limits, so feel free to post any questions or comments in this thread.

Using the new feature is a little different to adding images the normal way, so Vergere has written a handy guide to using the new upload tool.

Vergere wrote:When posting a message, you can find a button to manage your attachments below your text editor, in the additional options:

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(Editor's note: you can also click the Paperclip button in the post editor toolbar!)

Clicking on this button opens a popup that allows you to upload an image, either from your computer or from an image on the Internet.

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Once you have uploaded your files, you can see them above the button:

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To insert your attachments into your post, click on the attachment button of the text editor:

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If you don't insert your attachments, they will automatically appear at the end of your post.

Enjoy!

Thanks Mark

Hi Mark,

Thank you and everyone involved for adding this feature. It is sure to come in handy!

Cheers!

Yes, thank you for adding this to the forum.

This will definitely be very helpful. Now we won't have to rely on a dangerous site like imageshack anymore to upload images here to the forum.

Again, thanks for adding this into the forum.

Thank you Mark and mods this will most defenatly help us a lot Thanks

This tutorial will come in handy. Thanks, Mark! I owe you 4 pints o'Fosters.

is there a plug-in for the forum that can resize pics automatically??????
over at my forum I have it set to resize pics down to 800 px wide and it resized the height by the same amount as the width, pics can be as long as the user wants em, even works for linked pictures, does something like this exist for this forum????

I only mentioned my forum because it seemed relevant to this thread.

is there a way to move linked pics to attachments??????

Fantastic!!!


Thanks!!!

THANK'S MARK! That's even better now which i believe site the has been developed! whoo hoo!

Just let me see...

OOOOOh That neat.