Tutorial Pictures Media and Attachments- How To Add Them To Your Posts

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Here is where you will notice adding pictures videos, gifs or attachments to your posts has never been easier!

Special Notes About Pictures​

Pictures with very large dimensions that take up the entire screen can be posted (we'll put one at the bottom) so consideration should be given to users on phones or tablets that might not appreciate such big pictures. Since added images can be resized on the fly by dragging the corners, please reduce the size of your giant pictures to something more reasonable.

10 Pictures maximum can be added to posts.

Posting Pictures​

There are several easy ways to add pictures to your posts and some may be surprising? Here's ways to do it:
► Drag a picture from you computer and drop it in your message - resize as needed
► Use the picture button in the toolbar between the link and smiley buttons

The picture button will have two options, you can:​

► Drag and drop a picture in the popup box or click the box to browse local files​

► The picture popup box has the option to add a picture URL you've copied to your clipboard​

Now comes the part you might not expect:​

From other websites, on Windows platforms, you can right click a picture to get a popup list of options. If you choose "copy image", you can then return to your post and just paste it in.

Better still if you have two browser windows open, you can usually just drag a picture from another website over into your post. How sick is that?

Adding a Gif​

As a special courtesy and feature, we have added Giphy integration into the forums. To insert a gif, click the tiny button in the toolbar, search and select what you want and it gets added.

PLEASE DO NOT ABUSE THIS FEATURE. One or maybe two gifs per post is quite enough.

Adding Media like videos and stuff​

Most media, such as YouTube videos and shorts, you can just paste in the link and your videos will show up when you preview or post.

Other types of media that aren't automatically embedded may require the use of the media button in the toolbar where the URL to the media is pasted into the media pop up box.

Some of these may not work and have not been tested or may require additional configuration but media embeds from the following platforms are supposed to be supported?

• Apple Music
• Bluesky
• Dailymotion
• Flickr
• Giphy
• Imgur
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Reddit
• SoundCloud
• Spotify
• TikTok
• Tumblr
• Twitch
• X
• Vimeo
• YouTube

Some of these require the forum be sighed up with these external services. "X" is believed to be one of them and we do not support Musk's platform and even have Xwitter links blocked in our browsers so their content will not embed on our forums, sorry.

Adding attachments​

The button to add attachments is for things like PDF files, documents, zipped files, spreadsheets and other types of files. We do not recommend adding pictures through the attach files button.

Example of huge picture that should be resized:​

Resized version: