Drongle McMahon Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 From my first glance at my own posts in the Mesh Forum, it appears that all pictures have disappeared. That renders most of the more useful posts in that forum completely useless. Anyone know if this is a permanent situation? I see there's an insert "image from url" at the bottom, but apparently no direct upload option, and nothing exists in in the "existing attachments". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Amen. I depend on the pictures in the mesh tutorials that Dongle and others so generously provide in the absence of any documentation from LL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 No pictures is an ultra major shortcoming. I see an option to "Insert Other Media/Insert image from URL" but I have not been able to get it to work. Pictures are a major must for asking and answering questions, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Oh, and Pam, do I need to bow before your Supreme Majesty!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 13 minutes ago, Perrie Juran said: Oh, and Pam, do I need to bow before your Supreme Majesty!?! Well Perrie, I worked hard to reach that rank, which you can see no one else has. So if you are so inclined ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I agree that the lack of photos is a severe limitation. I had a uploaded collection of diagrams over the years that were very helpful for answering resident questions. If there's no way to reach that archive or to build a new one, this is going to make life harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne McCann Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 From https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/2127-welcome-to-our-new-community-platform/ Some posts may have missing images. Where possible, we will be fixing and/or updating these. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I assumed that meant pictures were missing from past posts. Does anyone see my signature banner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arton Rotaru Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 41 minutes ago, Pamela Galli said: I assumed that meant pictures were missing from past posts. Does anyone see my signature banner? Nope, I see only a dropbox link, and the marketplace link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa006 Baxton Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 @Pamela Galli No your signature banner is not showing ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Hutchence Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I tried variations of URLs from Photobucket, nothing will work to upload into the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 What browser are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I tried several variations from tinypic.com with no success. Using Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Playing around here with this.... So we can "link" photos from other websites. Actually that is a sucky thing if we don't own the website and what will happen when someone has their website coded to replace the picture with some choice porn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 test Doing some testing here for image hosting. So far have not been able to insert pictures from Tinypic or Photobucket. But Imgur appears to work if you choose the "direct link" URL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Tucker Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Tinypic does work. Make sure you use the direct link to the image. On the "Share This Image" page that would be the box labeled "Direct Link for Layouts". Generally you will be able to recognize what will work by the look of the link. For example "http://tinypic.com/r/11b2ky8/9" will not work. However "http://i66.tinypic.com/11b2ky8.png" will. You can notice that the latter has a file extension ".png" while the first one does not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Thanks Dante, finally got my signature pic with tiny pic, following your advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 15 minutes ago, Perrie Juran said: test Doing some testing here for image hosting. So far have not been able to insert pictures from Tinypic or Photobucket. But Imgur appears to work if you choose the "direct link" URL. I seem to have gone blind, did not see that option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Tucker Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 One more tip. Generally, anywhere you see an image on a webpage you can right click on it and choose "Copy Image Address" (text varies between browsers). This should in almost all cases produce a link you can use to post on this forum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquila Kytori Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) 22 hours ago, Drongle McMahon said: From my first glance at my own posts in the Mesh Forum, it appears that all pictures have disappeared. That renders most of the more useful posts in that forum completely useless. Anyone know if this is a permanent situation? I see there's an insert "image from url" at the bottom, but apparently no direct upload option, and nothing exists in in the "existing attachments". You need to look more closely Drongle *https://content.invisioncic.com/Mseclife/image_extract/169928iDFFA72B9FE0F80EC.jpg It seems the older the post the more chance images will still be intact. I expect its just a matter of time untill they sort out a similar system as before where images can be uploaded directly from hardrive. I hope there will be the option to search through pages of past images that had been used in ealier threads. I found that very usefull in the old forums to find older posts again that I wanted to link to. Just to note: looking through some of my previous posts I found an error in one where the image that was being used in my post was not the image I had originally used. Not one of my images at all If someone is missing "pink shoes" image from their post let me know and I will tell you where you can find it A spell checker would be nice .............. Edited March 15, 2017 by Aquila Kytori Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda Huntress Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 @Lisa006 Baxton, How did you do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innula Zenovka Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 1 hour ago, Perrie Juran said: Doing some testing here for image hosting. So far have not been able to insert pictures from Tinypic or Photobucket. But Imgur appears to work if you choose the "direct link" URL. For Tinypic, use the Direct Link for Layouts url, down at the bottom: For Photobucket, use the similar "Direct" option: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 "You need to look more closely Drongle" Oh well, there's hope then. Still, I'm not going to be happy until we can upload images to the forum's own archive. I don't want to have to starty using third party sites. The accumulated images we have posted, especially you, Aquila, comprise a valuable store of guidance that needs to be kep together with the accompanying texts. I also agree with your wish to be able to peruse my own images - that's by far the most effective method I found for locating and linking to old posts. I haven't used a quote here because it's far to large and intrusive. Also, I couldn't delete part of it. I miss the edit-as-html too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 8 hours ago, Innula Zenovka said: For Tinypic, use the Direct Link for Layouts url, down at the bottom: For Photobucket, use the similar "Direct" option: Well dag nab........tonight it's working. Thanks Innula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amethyst Jetaime Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Unfortunately some of the pictures I used for illustrations to help people are no longer available for me to upload anywhere as I had made and saved them on a computer that died a tragic death. The loss of our individual picture library means a lot of helpful work lost which I am not going to have the time to reproduce. That means a lot of questions will go unanswered by me. LL should have warned us about this so we could grab them off our libraries if we needed to. Is there anyway these could be restored somehow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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