Imgur image posting issue ( now fixed!

BLF Site-related Issues
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Lately i been having issues embedding images from my Imgur image site in my BLF topics & posts. it ends up showing the Imgur page info like this below:
EDIT: I seen Imgur change their image interface, and go it to work now with their direct-link. :+1:

{height:800px; width:600px}

DBSAR Vintage Flashlights Collection 1

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Are you using Imgur's direct link?

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that is strange, but i’m seeing the “bang” aka exclamation point [ ! ] in your post. That normally shouldn’t show.

How come i can’t find the quote button for your OP…?

using the insert image button, setting width to 40%:

It all seems to be working, maybe delete the size tag in your post and just use the %; you may be trying to over-constrain the image and it defaults to some imgur format…? If you just leave it blank it will default to the full page width of the post window.

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imgur seems to make it difficult to get a simple direct link with a .jpg extension.

Perhaps someone will chime in with a better way, but I use this cumbersome method to insert photos in my BLF post:

  • upload photo to imgur
  • click the three dots in the upper right corner of the new image, next to ‘copy link’
  • click ‘get share links’
  • click ‘copy link’ next to ‘BBCode (Forums)’
  • use the ‘insert image’ icon on BLF’s comment form
  • paste the copied link into the ‘image URL’ field
  • delete the from the beginning and end of the link

I also specify an image width of less than 95% and add the corrected .jpg link to the ‘(OPTIONAL) Link to URL’ field so clicking the image in my post will bring up the full-sized image.

This image is sized to 70% width.

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I was having trouble with imgur a few days ago as well, but yesterday it worked okay again for me. Dunno……

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For me the ! shows up when I use the HTML copy but not when I use Direct Link.

DBSAR are you using the HTML or Direct Link copy from Imgur?

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There is no “Quote Button” on OP’s.

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this is the direct link:

I put that between ! !

and Viola, Bob’s Your Uncle… lol

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Bob is your uncle…

if i could “quote button” the OP, then i could see the details of his image tag to see what caused the problem.

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You can see from looking at the page source in Firefox that it’s making a html reference to the image so to me it’s clear that HTML copy is being used (Direct Link doesn’t have that in the page source). Plus the fact that ! appears is another indicator as that also doesn’t appear when Direct Link is used.

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I seen Imgur change their image interface, and go it to work now with their direct-link. :+1: