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An image uploader mod such as this one would make it much easier for people to upload images and make the forums more colourful! This one doesn't use any of the precious server bandwidth because the images are stored elsewhere, and it's free...

[Moogie]

Thanks Dom Bandwidth isn't an issue - we've got oodles of bandwidth to spare, even on the new server we'll have 3000GB which is about 10x what we currently use. The problem we had with avatars was the method of file-serving on phpBB, loading via a script for security purposes. We may be able to reinstated that on the new server.

Folks can already upload images with their posts (and can display them inline easily with the click of a button on the attachment options), so I'm not really sure what this addon would achieve?

Folks can already upload images with their posts (and can display them inline easily with the click of a button on the attachment options), so I'm not really sure what this addon would achieve?

But hardly anyone does, and attachments are even rarer. AFAIK the only way to upload an image directly is as an attachment and that then fixes what is seen to a thumbnail size.

Posters can do this themselves, albeit less easily, by visiting http://postimg.org, uploading the image(s) and then looking underneath the images, making the preferred selections from the dropdown boxes, copying to clipboard and pasting into the post here, and they should appear in 'Preview' and in the final submission. Example of what you see when you come to make selections is below. Sorry for the hot X-rated images :

[Moogie]

Just testing out attachments added inline...

[Moogie]

Hmmm, am sure that should display as full size when inline. Probably haven't ticked the right box for that. I'll check on the admin panel. I'm sure at my other forum they come up full size when inline

Not really sure I see much difference with the attachments as they are and the http://postimage.org/mod.php site though - seems to work in much the same way. They click a link below their post entry box to add images (here it's labelled 'upload attachment'), select an image to upload and place in their post as a thumbnail - albeit a slightly bigger thumbnail on the other site. What am I not seeing that's different?

your pic comes up full size when I click on it Moogie - that's good enough for me

[Moogie]

Another test, turned thumbnails off so maybe they'll come up full-size in post now?

[Moogie]

And another test...

That's no fish!

(placed inline)

[Moogie]

Bigger thumbnails are nice

OK just testing...

It works! Yes if you choose to attach a file, upload it and then click on 'place inline' it appears 'properly'. Thanks Moogie!

[Moogie]

It may still scale the image down a bit if it's too wide, but you can then click to view the full version still

[Moogie]

Oooh, just enabled a nice feature I didn't know the Afterburner theme had - a built in lightbox for viewing the full sized photos. Very nice!

Yes the lightbox is cool, and the autoscaling is neat too. Thank you.