I notice many posters use links to their pictures, rather than embedding them in the massage. Embedding take no more time then embedding. Instead of selecting the link icon, just click on the icon next, to the right. Then enter the URL in the window, same as you do for the link.
This saves time for the leader, especially when you post several images in your post. The reader sees them all at once, instead of having to go back and forth.
Maybe it is my personal preference, but I definitely prefer reading posts with embedded pictures.
I concure but we just don’t all do things the same way. If the forum would allow us to post photos from our own computers instead of having to use a hosting site I think I’d jump up and down and shout hip hip hooray, and most chances are we’d stop seeing links.
Agreed… kinda of a PITA to click back and forth to look at each image. So nowadays if somebody doesn’t care enough to post the photos instead of links, I keep on moving.
Could be clickbait or worse depending upon the hosting site.
The only modeling site/forum that I have encountered that does that is Scalemates. Lord knows what their host server is, but it must have lots of room and bandwidth.
Correct me if I’m wrong, Don, but I understand the OP to say that some people literally post the hyperlink. As opposed to those who use the “insert image” feature, which still is a link, iyt just looks like the image.
I don’t much care onne way or the other, except I usually don’t bother to click on hyperlinks because as noted, it means jumping back and forth.
But it does. If you have a web site, you can post it with that URL. It is sad that internet providers do not provide a user web page any more. My first ISP did include a personal web page, but when I wanted a faster provider, that was the trade I faced, give up my own web site. Still looking for a good free web site provider. I think Kalmbach just cannot afford the mass storage costs.
And the hyperlink method already means you have the photos online, so you need nothing else to just use the embedded (landscape image). Same method for user, no difference except which icon to use. the hyperlink method means you already have a URL for each picture, which means you already have an online site you are storing it at.
A exception every now and then, but for the most part especially if I see mutliple hyperlinks, my adventure in reading ends along with my interest in said thread.
For me, posting pictures is as easy and simple as opening a new (extra) window, going to the desired picture and then just dragging it from that page over to the posting page.
And it could be a bandwidth issue. The more hits and views on an image, it may use up the posters allotted bandwidth for a time period on a free hosted image site. That was another one of Photobucket’s dirty tricks when they were trying to get people to switch over to paid subscribers. Posting the links instead of embedding the images reduces that bandwidth usage. And can be a form of clickbait because it forces the viewer to the host site and all the adds that often appear.
The posters may have thought they were embedding an image, but the forum page’s software couldn’t properly handle the URL and render the image, rendering a hyperlink instead.
I have seen this happen on other forums. At Hyperscale, for example, some time ago, the links I got from my hosting service did not render correctly. They worked on other, newer forums, but Hyperscale just presented the link. I had to edit them to strip off the URL tags, and then their pages could handle them.
I have to perform a similar edit here at FSM today. I have to strip off the URL tags, leaving just the image tags and the URL text in between. If I do not, FSM’s pages will throw all of the text after the inserted link into underlined text, as in this example below:
That’s box art, not my own work. I’ve got that figure but she’s in progress.
So, as I said to open this reply, it may be that the poster inserted a link, expecting the forum to render the image, but the forum software doesn’t handle the specific link’s syntax correctly.
