Images removed from all post after reply

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Hi,

after my reply to an old thread all images are removed. Because I’m the author of theese posts with images I tried to edit and check the source. It looks like there have never been images there. The place where the images should be is empty - no code for inkluding images. Also when I edit and try to insert an image by passing my url I cannot see the image.

Could someone help please?

Thanks in advance

Matt

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Is this a Photobucket thing?

They are dumping files for folks who won’t pay them. I downloaded all of my PB stuff some years ago so I don’t care what they do with my files.

Bill

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Hi Bill,

no, I’ve stored all my images on my own website.

Also I cannot insert images from my website in new posts. Is there a list of allowed image hosters ? I tried google phots as well but without success.

Matt

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There’s no list of approved hosting sites, but if you look through this forum and some of the Welcome Aboard forum’s post, you’ll get replies with some of the more popular or commonly-used hosts.

I use Postimage, it’s free, and I have no problems pasting the links it generates into my posts here, or on other forums.

I do not use the Insert feature; not necessary, since I can just paste links right into a reply.

I’d avoid Google, or Facebook, because their own security requirements might cause issues for some forum users. I have seen that happen here, that some of us could but others could not see such images here, or, if it was just a hyperlink, could not follow them and have the images open.

As for images stored on your own website, how do you share them here? Do you get the specific URL to the image, and paste it into a reply? use Insert and enter it in the URL field? Maybe it’s the syntax of the link, and you need to add more to the command beyond image tags?

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Hi Baron,

here ist the generated code für inserting a video on youtube and an image from my website:

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Both using the buttons for inserting videos and images, both not working.

Due to a reply of a thread all images will not be shown any longer. The links to the images are still stored in the tread. Using an image hoster would be a lot of work to fix all posts. And why I shoud pay twice, my website and an image hoster …

Hope there will be a technical issue.

Matt

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Let me see if I can get it to post from your site. The image and video insertion buttons on this forum have been broken for years, but you can usually get around it by manually adding the BB code tags to your link. Let’s see if this works.

Edit: Looks like it didn’t work, but clicking on the little picture icon pulls it up in another window. Pretty sure there’s just a missing piece of BB code that needs to be added. My photo hosting site figures that out automatically, so I’m not sure what needs to be added to make it happy.

Strange. I put one of my photo links in, exactly the same way as I tried with yours, and mine works for some reason. Imageshack is an https link though. Maybe that’s why it works?

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OK, I took your URL for an image and formatted it like the links I get from Postimage. That is, I took the basic URL at the heart of that string, from “http” to the file extension, and bracketed that with image tags, that is “img” in square brackets, with a backslash in the one at the end, just to see how that would work here. So, it looks like this, except for the parentheses and quotes I put in to be able to show the string:

([)[img(])'http://www.boorad.de/famo/spring_types.jpg’([)/img(])’

Pasted here (without the parentheses and quotes), to see if it works:

Let’s see…

OK, it shows a failed image link icon, but if I click on that, it does direct me to the image at your hosting location. I’m very rusty on my HTML, but I think there are just some tweaks that could be made to get the link to where the forum page reads the link and renders the image.

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I just realized that your link is unsecured, that is, it’s http rather than https, and I don’t know but that might prevent the forum page from showing the image? Getting beyond my experience here. I do know that a host’s own security protocols can prevent us from seeing a linked image; we can get errors indicating no access, for example.

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Hi everyone,

thank you for you help. The http / https thing seems to be the solution. But it keeps strange anyway. I activated SSL on my website and wanted to try again but this time with https://www.boorad.de/famo/spring_types.jpg for example. But everything was fine already: all images are now visible again without changing the url from http to https. Is’nt it strange ? But I’m happy because now I can continue on my WIP thread.

Thanks Matt

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A little experiment…

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What I did was to take the URL in your latest post and added HTML image tags to the front and end of the string. The page reads the tags, reads the URL, and retrieves the image and displays it.

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Glad you got it figured out, Matt. That IS weird that even the original links are OK now without you changing them once you got SSL set up. The photo even shows up now in my post, and I didn’t change the link to https either. Looks like quite a project you have going in that WIP thread.