New forums question - adding photos/screenshots

[RiverBirch]

On Cord's stream of April 7, I don't think he said anything about mechanism for pasting photos/screenshots in the new forums. Currently, we have to use a third-party site to paste in screenshots. I'm hoping that with the new forums, it will be far less cumbersome and not involve a third party site. Like....drag and drop?!

[Cordovan]

Sorry, but that isn't likely. You'll still need to post images like you are used to.

[bohbashum]

On Cord's stream of April 7, I don't think he said anything about mechanism for pasting photos/screenshots in the new forums. Currently, we have to use a third-party site to paste in screenshots. I'm hoping that with the new forums, it will be far less cumbersome and not involve a third party site. Like....drag and drop?!

You can attach images straight from your PC to the forums now which is relatively new if I'm not corrected

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It's still cumbersome - but it's safe knowing your image won't randomly change or be removed?

Steps to replicate easy
1. Window + Shift + S to screenshot item
2. "Insert Image" on forum post
3. From Computer
4. Navigate to screenshots folder. Example: "C:\Users\[YourName]\OneDrive\Pictures\Screenshots "
5. Preview changes of your forum post
6. Open attachment to get URL to image. Example "https://forums.lotro.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12 89&d=1681309875"
7. "Insert Image" again
8. From URL, don't "Retrieve remote file", using the URL the forum made.

You can optionally just embed it yourself with

[IMG]...[/IMG]

You can use "Retrieve remote file". But you get a lot of errors. Like the file size and path not having the .png at the end. This is a safer way which seems to work more.

Also it looks like this... which is again not actually embedding the image...

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[TesalionLortus]

Cord, will there be a higher limit of images that we can post in a post? Hopefully. 15-20 would be nice. Or higher. May be useful for these "article posts" too