Adding pictures

[C-Hawk]

I wish something could be done to make picture sharing easier on this forum. The picture hosting sites are difficult and shut down regularly. Matt is having trouble, I have trouble, and I see others too. I use a tablet or my phone, and am not that computer literate.
In the fishing reports section I can attach, I have finally figured an easy way to use my phone, (Android) by texting the pic before I post. Somehow the texting makes the pic the right size. This works instead of using an image sizing app. I am ok with this. My questions are, why can't we set things up so we can attach in any section? Why can't we just cut and paste right from our galleries instead of having to use 3 rd party hosting? Also I see Reelax attached his bear pic, is that because he used a laptop or because he has more access as the administrator? This is the only complaint I ever hear about on our forum, is there anything that can be done?

[Wallyandre (Andre)]

Using a server with a larger capacity and being able to host pics is very costly; this why most of the fishing forums are submerge with pop-ups, ads etc... LCU is a clean site.
After the Photobucket saga I start using Imgur and it’ok and free. What I do to play safe is to keep my Imgur pics on a file on my pc so I got everything back-up in case something happen. You can also use the photo gallery from another site and just copy the link and use image tool in your posting with the full editor

[C-Hawk]

I can't seem to make it work with my Android phone

[Wdrnr]

Would be a great workshop show and learn item or some sort of you tube demo. I think we lose a lot of info and pics from members (me included) because it’s such a pain to post.

[Reelax]

I shrunk the bear pic by taking a screen shot and then attaching that pic to the forum. I'm gonna give imgur a try... Since photobucket died I haven't had a good way of posting pics either... hope imgur helps..

[C-Hawk]

I don't see a header for attaching in anything but fishing reports Matt

[BottomDollar]

The thing with the imgur app is that they cater to the reddit/Instagram/text sharing crowd, and internet forums are kind of a dying breed, unfortunately. So there's no one click solution for posting here. But once you figure out the BBCode link thing on either their desktop or mobile site, it's pretty straightforward and reliable. I still have working imgur links from like 5 years ago on various forum sites.

Andre is right. Once you start selling ad space to fund a large image database on the server, you have no control over what those ads are for or how they'll behave. I'd much prefer a slightly convoluted image posting process to getting pop-up ads and giant banners.

[C-Hawk]

[C-Hawk]

Well I did it, not sure how, but you need to click inage info to get code. Be nice to use when I get to camp and am on mobile data, no wifi. I won't have to send pics to tablet

[C-Hawk]

[C-Hawk]

Two in a row

[C-Hawk]

[C-Hawk]

Too bad I had a scotch or two before I started this project

[C-Hawk]

Had to try the tablet

Thanks Andy, Andre

[C-Hawk]

Looks like I need to figure out sizing