Posting Images and other Forum Problems

[Robertus Maximus]

- Are we no longer able to upload images the way we did on the old Forum.

I've looked at the FAQ page and it says:

Can I post images?

Yes, images can be shown in your posts. If the administrator has allowed attachments, you may be able to upload the image to the board. Otherwise, you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.example.com/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor images stored behind authentication mechanisms, e.g. hotmail or yahoo mailboxes, password protected sites, etc. To display the image use the BBCode [img] tag.

As JP Michael showed above, you can post an img if you have a link to some web site, so that does work.

As of 2020-02-03 17:30 GMT, I am still unable to upload images via the 'Attachments' tab as I was able to do in the v2.0 Forum. I have tried various file formats and attempted to upload an image previously uploaded on a v2.0 Forum thread with no luck.
Not everyone may wish to use a publicly accessible web server.
Just a thought...

[JP Michael]

Image attachment test:

Fig. 1. Doppler Radar 'Zone of Cancellation'

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[Edit] yes, img attachments are not working right now.

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Im getting an error message attached to this post:

"You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post."

I tested posting outside of the announcement forum and it is the same. Mods will need to tweak attachment permissions in the ACP.

[Zyxzevn]

If I click on top-left link "thunderbolts.info"
I go to the old forum.
I think it would look best to have links to "thunderbolts.info" and to the new forum.
Maybe looking like buttons:
[Thunderbolts.info] [ Forum]

[nick c]

It probably would be best if the red "thunderbolts.info" logo should, when clicked, sends you to the Thunderbolts Homepage. There already is a link to v2.0 below the logo, so using the logo as another v2.0 link is redundant.

[Phorce]

Hi,

Could not find a dedicated forum section for this. I just had problems posting a GIF and the forum kept on saying it could not find the image dimensions. So I tried to upload but the upload size is very low, around 600K. Also the forum is a bit antiquated although I appreciate thunderbolts has limited time and resources. These days it’s expected that you can post social media links and an automatic preview would come up and all this kind of thing. There’s some much more advanced forum options these days, many of them free, the names escape me but I’ll try and come back with them !

[nick c]

This has come up before. I will eventually merge this thread with that.
I have been informed by the people who run the technical side of this forum that images cannot be posted.
The setting is that only Administrators can post images, it is built into the forum and cannot be changed. As an Adminsitrator or Moderator I cannot change it, and apparently nobody can.
I can post images but only other Administrators can see them, so that is pretty much useless.

[Phorce]

This has come up before. I will eventually merge this thread with that.
I have been informed by the people who run the technical side of this forum that images cannot be posted.
The setting is that only Administrators can post images, it is built into the forum and cannot be changed. As an Adminsitrator or Moderator I cannot change it, and apparently nobody can.
I can post images but only other Administrators can see them, so that is pretty much useless.

Thanks. I think the image issue is now fixed.

However I ended up back at this thread as the posting experience is quite basic. Not allowing upload of images I can understand although it is a feature of many other forums. However what is lacking is being able to embed social media posts and websites. For example maybe this addon could achieve that - https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/magicogp ?

EDIT: Actually Media Embed extension appears to include social media embeds.

Although, just to throw this out there (the current forum may be fine, simple to maintain, then great !). There are things like this Discourse (which is free) phpBB import script. Discourse can be made to operate like a traditional forum as is show with a screenshot of the Unreal Engine forums which I’ve used before. I had no idea it was using Discourse and thought it was pay for vBulletin. There’s also Flarum (free). But I cannot find any major users of it comparable to Epic/Unreal.

[nick c]

Thanks. I think the image issue is now fixed.

Yes, remember when the forum was shut down for several weeks (in 2023).
Dave and the techs basically redid the whole thing while saving all the postings and when the forum reappeared the ability to post and view images was back.