There you go the above is the result.
It is so frustrating trying to post pics on this forum for me.
I am replacing ?dl=0 with ?raw=1 at the the end of the dropbox link as I did previously.
Managed to upload pic from dropbox to tinypic then to the forum from tinypic.
No idea why tinypic was refusing to accept the dropbox code earlier ?
ah, there it is! 
You just need to replace dl=0 with dl=1.
If download is false (0) then it tries to pull us to dropbox.com. If you set download to true (1) then it does a download right into the page.
Well itās just over 2 dollars cheaper but where is it :person_facepalming:
BTW have you read the FAQās in the ad for yours ?
Says if you buy more than 5 pieces you get 95% discount !
That is exactly what I am doing, I will do it again
Oops misread that so lets try gain
Look at your quote, it says raw=1
Sorry yes but this is with dl=1
Nope, still says raw=1. Replace raw with dl
Well, for one thing, Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life doesnāt seem to exist.
Also, in my limited experience, Dropbox absolutely sucks for sharing files in an open, public way. Maybe itās just me, but when I tried to link the cute 404 pic above to the URL you provided (Quote this message for details) I get:
503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.
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But clicking it again seems to work. Or not, if I test it (in Preview) again. ??? Not-so-much negging, but Dropbox seems to be another of those shaky Google hive-mind hacks that never seems to get āfinishedā.
So what URL do you get from TinyPic or Imgur?
Do you use the Simple Post Editor? The orange-brown āInsert Imageā button only needs a valid URL. The width and mouseclick boxes donāt technically need to be filled, just the Uniform Resource Locator of the image file itself.
Iāve never used anything but dropbox my whole time on BLF and love it. However bella seems to have broken it, I canāt even log into dropbox.com! Thatās a first!
This is the same sort of BS that has given our PhotoBucket fans worlds of grief. If the Host insists on processing your image (even if it looks like a valid URL), youāre not going to like what you have to go through to make this work.
The Host has to stay out of the way. I donāt get the feeling Google does that for anybody.
Hereās a tip that might help:
Get the URL of the image without parameters (the ā?ā and whatever follows it), so that the URL string ends with the filename.jpg Use ONLY that, from āhttpā to ājpgā and nothing else. Get that string of characters into your clipboard & try to āPaste and Goā (if youāre using FireFox) or whatever your browser needs for you to directly input a URL & browse to it. If that works, the Insert Image URL box should work, and if not, post it anyway with a note & Iāll Quote your post & work it out for you.
This is the image code I get from tinypic 
I use dropbox (with no problems I may add) for 2 reasons.
- It automatically uploads any pics taken with my phone to my laptop almost immediatel, no plugging in cables & downloading pics.
- The other main forum I use, a fishing forum, changed itās server platform & when it did, photobucket which I had been using previously would not work with it but it was suggested to me to use dropbox which works perfectly with it.
It also works fine with the Koi forum I use & also the football forum I am on.
I agree it seems dumb to default it to false. But if you think about it, it probably costs far less to run their server farm if they donāt send the whole image every time someone views a post. Some of these BLF posts get 3000 views. If the BLF user posts a link, maybe 100 requests burden the server at dropbox.com. If the image is loaded into every page view, thatās a burden of 3000 images. And Iām only talking one photo for one user. Dropbox has 300 MILLION users and billions? of photos.
One of my babies about 80cm long
