Uploading photos to the forum

[potatolord]

I can't get imgur to work, despite numerous attempts I can't create an account.

Is there any other way?

 

[potatolord]

someone didn't read the op

@potatolord - why for can you not create an account??

Every time I put my phone number in it says it is not valid.

 

[potatolord]

Imgbb.com is much better than imgur imo.

Ta, just created an account there instead!

 

[potatolord]

I was just about to say, we need this information in a sticky as it's really helpful......then I actually read a sticky

How to add an image to your posts.

Directly linking to images on other sites that are not expressly for that purpose (known as Hotlinking) is not permitted. The OcUK moderation team reserve the right to remove any image that is suspicious of being hotlinked.

You may use your own webspace for hosting pictures or files but it's advisable to use a well known image hosting website to upload and share your images and files.

There are many files sites that can be used for hosting your images.

http://imgur.com
http://www.Tinypic.com
http://www.uploadit.org
http://www.freeimagehosting.net


although it could do with an update, as tinypic and uploadit are dead

How do you post the link? I'm copying the link from imgbb, but it just shows as a link, rather than displaying the image.

 

[potatolord]

Change the 'Embed codes' dropdown box to 'BBCode full linked'. Copy and paste that in the post text box, optionally and ideally removing its surrounding 'url' tags. Like this:

[url=https://ibb.co/zfS8sQg][img]https://i.ibb.co/s3F5jb4/IMG-0902.jpg[/img][/url]

[img]https://i.ibb.co/s3F5jb4/IMG-0902.jpg[/img]

Thank you! That worked.