I’m on my phone too.
I’m traveling far away from home, no laptop/pc.
don’t have access to my pc/laptop. :person_facepalming:
I’ll try again later when I get home
I then compared my post with the post of Mr. Unheard , i found the difference , mine ended with “_t.jpg” :person_facepalming: , i thought maybe “t” means thumbnail.?
Unheard’s has “_b.jpg” . I don’t know what “b” means here, but for next image I changed the _t with _b and it shows higher res image
Here’s what I’ve got so far. I’m still learning, hopefully this will be useful for other people learning/trying to post image on BLF.
I created Flickr account yesterday, for the sole purpose of posting image on BLF. Free account can have 1000 images (or is it 999?). I uploaded a few images for testing. Created “Album” , etc, etc, etc …
That’s the EASY part.
Next, how to actually shows the image on blf post??? It was a huge and complicated puzzle to me. I tried with Flickr and failed. I tried with my Google Drive and Google Photo and it’s even worse/waaay mooooore COMPLICATED.
So I got back to Flickr. Following good advices in this thread. Tanks so much guys …
I’m on my phone. It maybe easier on PC / laptop. It’s doable on phone.
With Firefox browser on an Android phone:
Open budgetlightforum.com, etc, etc .
Open Flickr (also on Firefox browser on my phone) . Several tabs of blf.com and several tabs of flickr.com .
The key is Page Source .
On Flickr : open album, select one image.
Click “three-dot thingy” on top right corner of Firefox browser , click “Page” , then click “View Page Soure”.
Then new tab opens . There’re hundreds of lines. Click “three-dot thingy” again, click “Find in page” , to find the image file name, type “.jpg” in the “search” field , and I find something like this :
Unfortunately imgur.com doesn’t work at all. I can’t even open imgur.com on my browser.
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With Google Drive I can’t get the “Page source” .
With imgur, Unfortunately I can’t even open imgur.com on my browser .
Also, when I read posts on blf, many posts with images from imgur often don’t display the images. Only empty boxes (rectangular). I knew it’s imgur from when i click and “Open in new tab” the new tab/page (… imgur.com … ) is also blank .
Sometimes they show images , and next day they don’t. I think the problem is on my browser not in those posts.
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So for now, Flickr is the only way for me. Free account. Only 1000 images, I think that’s definitely more than enough for me.
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Again, thanks very very very much for the tutorial and advices in this thread.
Now I feel I’m more blf than yesterday
abload.de is easier to upload images to, and somehow much simpler also to create album, etc, etc. It’s very easy to navigate.
And all types of url of every image are displayed clearly, very simple to copy the direct link of the image, hence very simple to post the image on blf.
I’m on my Android phone (I very rarely use pc/laptop) , overall much better experience with abload.de.
At first I was rather reluctant to try and use abload.de coz I don’t understand German at all . Translator came to the rescue…
With Firefox browser, I use “Translate this page” add-on, single click to translate the whole page into English, therefore no more language barrier. After a few times uploading images no need to translate the page coz it’s very easy to navigate, it only takes a few simple clicks.