Attachments.

[Edwardo Piet]

I can't find out how to add an attachment. I want to add an attachment of a photo of myself to members' photos.

[Annik]

Upload it to Imgur or Photobucket instead.

[KichigaiNeko]

Facebook is also another easy way to post pics here.

[Tiberius]

We removed the attachments feature ages ago. We aren't a file hosting service, and there are plenty of places where you can host images for free.

To embed an image in a post, take the image URL and place it in-between [img] tags (or [imgfit] tags if it is large).

[Annik]

We removed the attachments feature ages ago. We aren't a file hosting service, and there are plenty of places where you can host images for free.

To embed an image in a post, take the image URL and place it in-between [img] tags (or [imgfit] tags if it is large).

TIL about the [imgfit] tag.

[Tiberius]

Yeah, [imgfit] was invented by Darwinian to stop large images breaking the forum layout (creating horizontal scrollbars). It basically scales the image down automatically based on your screen size.

[Annik]

Yeah, [imgfit] was invented by Darwinian to stop large images breaking the forum layout (creating horizontal scrollbars). It basically scales the image down automatically based on your screen size.

I have been seriously opening all of my large photos in PS to scale them down manually, but that is much better and much simpler.


Thank you, Darwinian.

[Tiberius]

Well, be aware that the full image will still have to be loaded in people's browsers. That will affect their bandwidth, and not all of us are on high-speed connections. I'd suggest a max file size of around 300KB per image.

[Annik]

Well, be aware that the full image will still have to be loaded in people's browsers. That will affect their bandwidth, and not all of us are on high-speed connections. I'd suggest a max file size of around 300KB per image.

I don't know if even my scaled down photos are that small, lol. I'll take it into consideration for this point out, though.

[Tiberius]

I tend to use JPEG format, as you can usually adjust the quality of the image when saving it. A large image with 100% quality can be many MB in size, but reducing the quality to only 99% will massively reduce the file size to a few hundred KB, and it doesn't affect the actual image by a noticeable amount.