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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: BubbleTea on February 18, 2018, 09:46:06 PM

Title: Need some help with posting
Post by: BubbleTea on February 18, 2018, 09:46:06 PM

I'm new here so when I started a post I ran into a problem: pictures. I'm new to this forum thing and I'm seriously stumped on how to insert an image. I'm aware of the insert image button but I don't know how to use it. If someone could plz tell me how to I'd appreciate it.

Title: Re: Need some help with posting
Post by: Baby Sugarberry on February 18, 2018, 10:12:39 PM

The Arena doesn't offer image hosting/storage, so you have to provide your own - via a service such as imgur, Facebook, google, etc.  Once you have a web-accessible URL, just stick it in between the (IMG)(/IMG) tags (square brackets for the actual tags, parentheses used here so they'll actually show up.)

Title: Re: Need some help with posting
Post by: Wild Raspberry on February 19, 2018, 12:50:50 PM

You can also use a free image hosting site such as TinyPic.  When you upload your photo the forum code is right there.

 Basically it's [ IMG ] website URL here [  /IMG]   

Title: Re: Need some help with posting
Post by: Carrehz on February 19, 2018, 01:11:36 PM

I wouldn't recommend Tinypic - they delete pics at random and they recycle URLs, so sometimes your pic will be replaced with a NSFW or otherwise unsavoury pic :x

Title: Re: Need some help with posting
Post by: Loa on February 19, 2018, 06:48:25 PM

I use Imgur, its proven to be fantastic!

Title: Re: Need some help with posting
Post by: BubbleTea on February 23, 2018, 01:13:13 PM

Thank you all! I be sure to us those soon!

Title: Re: Need some help with posting
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on February 23, 2018, 01:41:35 PM

If you already have some kind of Yahoo account, you also have a Flickr account - just go to the site and learn how to upload/share.

Title: Re: Need some help with posting
Post by: BubbleTea on February 25, 2018, 12:37:27 AM

thx