Seems a bit old school uploading pictures to somewhere like imgur then having to link to them.
More and more forums I am using have the ability to upload and insert/attach pictures directly to the forum.
Would be very handy
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Seems a bit old school uploading pictures to somewhere like imgur then having to link to them.
More and more forums I am using have the ability to upload and insert/attach pictures directly to the forum.
Would be very handy
Can you use https://forums.hexus.net/members/albums.html
Or you were looking for something slightly different?
Does that allow you to insert images from your album into forum posts? If so yes
Pretty much. You upload and then it gives the BBCode to use
Well I never knew that, yes that is kind of what I was looking for, just some forums have it directly on the post page rather than having to upload to albums and link from there but it does the job :)
Is the album total size still laughably small though?
I have had to delete pictures from my album in the past to fit new ones in, and they are pretty small albums with heavily compressed and small pictures. Apologies if you stumble across historic posts of mine that make no sense with the picture missing, but that would be why.
I would assume that the forum software HEXUS is using still has the per-post attachments function, but that it's simply that the permissions are set so that nobody but Admins and perhaps Mods would be allowed to do it, to encourage the gallery or external image host way of linking, to keep storage requirements down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonj1611
I'm sure Hexus are doing their best to keep storage minimal, but I would have hoped by 10000 posts I would have unlocked more than the few MB I seem to have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Output
To be honest, I'd assume that they expect external image hosts to be used most of the time, and simply haven't updated the amount of space available to users over the years in the settings as a result, despite larger storage being much cheaper now than years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix
Well yes, most people use external image hosts. I've seen plenty of broken links on here over the years because of it, and it generally means that if I want to make a post that should involve adding an image then I just don't bother. But then perhaps fewer of my random meanderings would be seen as a positive by some :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Output
It seems to me that those hosted at Imgur last for years, so I'd imagine the only thing that would cause it for them would be a DMCA or similar notice (which is only likely to happen in certain circumstances) or other law enforcement action.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix
Unless the service closes down at some point of course, but if that was to happen it would prove your point about broken links.
I used to use imageshack but they ripped a load of mine down a few (several) years back and I lost a lot of pics from 2008-2012ish. Worse they recycled the weblinks so some threads got random images plonked in them which make no sense at all. Most just ended up with broken links. Really frustrating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Output
Also on the subject of storage - still only a 70 message limit? Really?
Tinypic was the same way with them deleting images at some point and then recycling the image links. They might have based it on whether the image got any hits within a certain time period before they automatically deleted it or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
Another setting that I would assume hasn't really been thought about over the years, so easily overlooked.Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
People must hit the mail limit constantly, I hardly use the feature but got an email the other week to say someone had tried to send me a message but my inbox was full.Quote:
Originally Posted by Output
True, I know I've seen a few messages in threads from various members to other various members over the years telling them to clear their inbox, but assuming nobody specifically asked HEXUS staff about increasing the limit, it wouldn't surprise me if it was deemed as nothing to worry about.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix
All of this is just me guessing of course, I've not spoken with any HEXUS staff, Admins, or Mods about any of these settings before (to my recollection at least), so I could be completely mistaken and there may be other specific reasons that settings have stayed the same.
I asked one of the mods once, they just said storage costs blah blah blah, not me who makes the decision, the world could end so let's not rock the boat, it's free what are you grumbling about, etc etc
I followed the sage advice of far more experienced members for my build log and use ImgBB to post fairly large thumbnails of my pics which link to the full size files on the hosting site. Seems to work well enough.
Yeah we all use external links, that wasn't quite the question I was asking, this is a Hexus suggestions section, hence the suggestion
New servers are going in in a few weeks so I'll discuss with DR about maybe increasing some limits to come in line with modern times.
Many thanks :)
I don't mind using imgbb for pictures, it works quite well in fact, but the message box limit really cheeses me off. Had to delete a few between me and peterb to free up some space. Ideally I'd have hung onto those.
I hear what you are saying there, I had to free up some messages recently but have kept the peterb ones, sometimes I read through them and it makes me sad but always feel priveleged he would engage in conversation on any subject
We weren't aware the PM inbox limit was an issue, the news about peterb saddens me. I've spoke to DR and he's approved an inbox size increase. That's something we can easily fix before the new servers go on. I'm thinking something like 125 messages.
any increase is welcome. I wonder though, given it's plain text and rather small sizes, whether there is any scope for a limit that scales with number of posts. Logic would say the more you're on here and contributing the more likely you are to have messages. If the default is 70 for a new user then could we get, say, an additional 30 per 250 posts or something like that?Quote:
Originally Posted by MLyons
If we can't have an ongoing increase can you add a way to do some kind of archiving or back-up export? Aside from general chat PMs tend to be where we agree shipping products, bank transfers etc and there's currently no way to export them to back-them-up so we have to keep a block of messages sat in there. I'm regularly at 68 messages out of 70 and having to carefully go through which is the least bad message to delete when my mail box gets full.
After quickly checking the Private Message section, that's already possible. Using the checkboxes to select those you want, then scrolling down and choosing the "Selected Messages" option, you can "Download as XML", "Download as CSV" and "Download as TEXT".Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
I had forgotten about that myself until seeing you mention exporting prompted a memory of me being able to export messages on some forums that I'd visited in the past.
oh fork it. Right after scrubbing things last week. :censored:Quote:
Originally Posted by Output
It has come up over & over but probably more so in the past, as ik9000 said, it was always a No in response so I assume people gave up hope & stopped asking.Quote:
Originally Posted by MLyons
:( I don't suppose you've got Email Notification of New Private Messages set, because I tend to forget that it does have the text of the message in the email not just the notification.. just a faint hope. Sorry if you haven't.Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
whats the best free picture host to use, as i have lots of stuff that needs to go and not advertised for ages on here. is the album able to handle like 15-20 images?
I am using imgur at the moment, I have not had much luck with images hosted on here though. I recently uploaded an image to my album but when linking the image on the site, I can see it but nobody else can
Use Imgur, its free. https://imgur.com/
I think imgbb also works and gives handy cut+paste links for bb (forum) code.
cheers all