How to Post Images on BLF

Look at it from another perspective. The are members who frequent other (flashlight) sites.
Sometimes other US sites, sometimes sites in their native country/language.
When using a hosting site they do not need to upload pictures every time they do a review (etc).

Great idea :+1: … make it yearly fee….that way if you get canned, you loose that coin, might cut out/down on all the BS too……where do I pay!

How do you know how much income this site gets? Do you have visibility into all revenues and expenses?

Awesome info here.
Thx

The insert image function works very well on BLF, no loss in sharpness that I can see. I always upload 1,600 pixel wide photos to my image hosting site, then let the forum software set the image size to about 800-900 pixels wide. This seems to be the Goldilocks spot for sharp pictures that aren't too big or small.

CPF also requires externally hosted photos, unless you are a donating member.

The reddit forum does upload photos to their server, but you must live with their horrible user interface.

JasonWW
That’s a good thought about listing the direct link.
On my windows system the video, once started, shows a YouTube logo that when clicked opens a new tab of the video on youtube.
I don’t see that on my android tablet.

Since I don’t necessarily know the size of the video vertical pixel height if I use some reasonable width (like 600).
I just put in the pixel width and it seems that the board software takes care of it.
for example:
FT 006 Sofirn BLF SP36 Thermal Stepdown PWM - YouTube width:600
Gets me the below

That seems to be in a correct aspect ratio as did the 4/3 video in my previous post using the same method.

It seems like 600 pixels to 800 pixels for a video width won’t over run smaller screens and still be large enough on monitors.

As far as image size goes, I link to images that are 1024 pixels in the largest dimension and size them so they stay inside the column. Portrait images get a smaller % so they make sense in relation to the landscape images.

I also resize the images to 1024 before uploading. Saves on my uphill bandwidth. I’m too old to wait for a bunch of 24M Pixel images to upload.
Thanks for the help.
All the best,
Jeff

test

Your missing the file extension .jpg, you also want to shrink the size.


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Just adding ‘s’, ‘m’, or ‘l’ to the end of the file name (before extension) on imgur will shrink it accordingly.

For example:

https://imgur.com/a18vBA7s.jpg
https://imgur.com/a18vBA7m.jpg
https://imgur.com/a18vBA7l.jpg

Okay, that seems to be an Imgur only thing. The S and M really hurts image quality. Neat, though.

Test

Imgur is totally f****d. Android app nfg, website says page not found when I tap on it. Got so pissed I sent'em a not nice email.

Finally wanna start selling some lights.. what is a hosting site that actually works?

Oh, yeah, and greedy photobucker should be nuclear struck.

postimage.org

It works for me!
Maybe if you clean the cookies it works!
Imgur

Sometimes it happens to me and it is just my session that has expired.
About the app, I don’t know, I just use it on the computer!

+1

No issues with imgur on my end, at least on a PC.

Issue is on your end, works for everyone else…

I don’t find Imgur particularly user friendly though…
But it works.

I like abload.de, but the site is in German.

How to post a spreadsheet on the BLF forum?

Figured I start by asking here.

In the advanced editor there is the table function.
Tried pasting into that a couple of ways and it was a fail.

I would like to insert a spreadsheet from Excel or Calc.

I know I can do a jpg screen capture, but I’d like to have something that can be edited as more data becomes available.
Or copied by others to paste into other threads or formats.

Is such a thing possible?
Thanks,
All the Best,
Jeff

I do not believe that it is possible to post an actual spreadsheet. But I think you can place the spreadsheet on something like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. and then post a link to it.

Hopefully, someone else will chime in.