Thanks to the sterling work of @Feral_Techie et al, the convoluted method for posting images is no longer necessary; both uploads and links work the way they should. External links still seem to need to be on a line of their own.
So here’s a direct upload:
And a link from an external site:
This may disappear very rapidly if it doesn’t work, but I think external links can be posted directly (I got it wrong in the last post so am trying again!)
Eureka! It looks like you have to have a blank line above the link - so hit [RETURN] twice before pasting the link
Well done, but unless I’m being thick I don’t see what you’ve done.
Is there an idiot’s guide ?
An easy one please, as so far I don’t think I’ve followed ANY of the technical advice on here on ‘how to do’ something.
I fear I am surrounded by technical competents. That’s quite scary.
Obviously - or I couldn’t have done it 
It’s irrelevant now, anyway; Feral fixed it with the move to a dedicated server. Everything works as it should now, with no need for fiddly workarounds.
Just testing if I can do it:
Is there a preferred size? I’ve chosen 640 x 480 px.
The thingy will resize large images automatically.
Joe, might it be worth editing the initial post to reflect the Brave New Server?
Thanks, Hedgers. Is that why my image is marked edited by ‘system’? Does that happen automatically no matter how small the posted image is? Oh, why don’t I test that out while I’m at it? Here’s a photo that’s 320 x240 pixels:
I’ll wait and see if I get the same message … later … yes, same message.
Joe, is that a picture in your post of Soo the rooster?
Will do!
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Joe, is that a picture in your post of Soo the rooster?
[/quote]Yep - that’s our Soo in full voice - and a glorious sound it is!
And delightful they are too!
Thank you Joe. As the breed standard describes them, multum in parvo. Bless their little puggy hearts.
Lovely doggies, Marjorie.
Gus, Pidge and Heidi are amazingly alike, aren’t they? And all black cats do not look alike!
At one stage of my life I ran a boarding cattery and we had zillions of black cats - a surprising number of them were called Lucky. An expat family had two black cats - one called N*gger, the other Boy. I was rigid with shock when they told me the names.
They are, rather. Heidi has all her tail, though, unlike Pidgelump. When she is in her stouter phases, viewed from above, there is quite a resemblance to the later stage of tadpoledom…
OK, I know I’ve missed it … but what do you do ??
Use the upload link at bottom right of text box.
Or, if it’s an image already hosted elsewhere that you have a URL for, just put in the URL on a line on its own.
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Use the upload link at bottom right of text box.
[/quote]At the risk of irritating the hell out of you … what ‘upload link’ at the bottom right of what text box ?
Start posting a reply - telling me to go and boil my head, say - and you will be typing in a box. There is a line at the top of the box and above it appear wee symbols: a speech bubble, a B, an I, some handcuffs, quotation marks, a < / > for formatting and then a _ wiv an arrer shooting upwards from it. That’s yer man.
