How to post an image on Gator Country

You used to be able to post an image file located on your hard-rive...is that no longer possible? Must it be posted first to an internet server with a unique URL?

 

It all depends. Do you want it to appear or not?

The real answer is that this old feature has stopped working reliably when the site moved to new servers. Sometimes the image taken from the local computer will appear and sometimes not.

I have never seen any confirmation that this is a known problem. This is like a lot of things on the site just an opinion.

The bottom line is that if you want your image to appear it needs to be on a web accessible server. I wish I could point you an image hosting service to use but all the ones of which I once knew no longer allowed linking through other sites.

 

Therein lies the rub...

 

What about a video not from Twitter or YouTube?

I have a link from Facebook but it tells me the specified URL cannot be embedded

 

As Vindibudd said, Facebook videos are embedded into their system and not directly accessible. The best way with is to link to the URL of the Facebook post that had the video, if possible.


YouTube videos are easy. Copy the URL for the video and then click on the Media icon in the editor panel and paste the URL into the box and shown below:




Note, for extra credit, I used the YouTube querystring to specify how far into the video I wanted it to start.

 

Imgur may be the best bet now.

I think Flickr may allow it too though.

 

Vindi, my bud, or budd, I have a few pics on Imgur that I want to share on GC. Can you show the specific directions to do so? And do I need to make them “public” first on Imgur before I can share them? Thanks so much in advance for helping an old lady.

 

Kinda lame that I can't load a GIF from my hard drive and make it visible. I just get an error. I get that the forum is free, but that seems like basic functionality.

 

The GIF below loaded just fine. A clue about the error you receive might help determine what the problem might be.

 

Can u see this?

Edit: guess not

 

Did u load the gif from a local drive or a url?

Here’s the message I get. Seems I can load an image but not a GiF. Weird

 

You have to admit that error message gives a lot of information. Well, maybe you don't.

To answer your question, the GIF I uploaded was from my PC hard drive. It looks like you are using one of those new smart phone things I have heard so much about.

Obviously, the error message is about as useless as my former wife thinks I was. The next thing I suggest is to see if the GIF you are trying is too large. I know there is a limit on the site but know it off the top of my rather empty head. Check to see the size difference between the GIF and JPG that worked. Try a GIF that is the same or smaller size as the JPG, assuming the 'offending' GIF is significantly larger.

We will wait with baited breathing to see how that experiment goes.