Originally Posted by
IBobi
Soon we will have very easy uploading from your phone or computer directly to forum posts, which automatically upload to your BF gallery as well (so you can use US as a host if you like). April...
If you are working on images, a few comments:
- Image sizes. I generally resize my images before posting. BF used to manipulate image sizes down to 100 kb which was a bit restrictive. However, I accidentally posted a 972 kb photo recently, and BF resized it to 1.5 MB for some reason. Anyway, somewhere around 200 kb to 500 kb is probably a good max image size. Does anyone else use a "cheap" bike for touring
- [ATTACH]<photo number>[/ATTACH] works to place an image anywhere in a post, but has to be manually entered. I think before the "downgrade", there used to be an option to enter the tags into the post.
- If one quotes post with BF images in a new post, if they are attached without the ATTACH as above, they don't show up in the quote. If they are attached using ATTACH, the ATTACH is quoted, but the images don't show up in the quote. One must manually put in [IMG]<link>[/IMG] to get the images to show up in the quoted message. See: Unusual road signs.
- Images posted before the downgrade 2 years ago are duplicated in the forum posts. I don't quite know why, but it seems to have to do with how images were handled with "attached" and also inserted into the text inline. Custom-built trailers..who's got one?
- Google doesn't index images on Bike Forums using Forum software. I have a feeling that this is because of something Bike Forums does to prevent hot-linking. However, I find that searching by images is the quickest way to search, so this makes Bike Forums less user-friendly.
- The view attachments under the Control Panel works. However, I never get thumbnails anymore. I thought I got them at one time. I can't say if this is a config issue on my end, or with BikeForums, but it is a pain. https://www.bikeforums.net/profile.p...ditattachments See below for the old manager which was MUCH BETTER.
- Below is the Photo Upload Manager from before the "downgrade". It generally worked fairly well. A bit clunky with a few things such as colors of the forward/back buttons. I think it actually worked for a couple of weeks after the "downgrade", then disappeared, so the software may be compatible with the current forum software.
