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1. In the imgur app on your phone, click the image you want to share so that it displays on the screen.
2. Click it again (it now displays in the middle of the screen, row of 4 icons along the bottom of the screen).
3. The right-most icon is the "share" icon. Click it.
4. That opens another screen, with the image link shown at the top.
5. NB, the image link will end .jpg (or other image file extension).
6. Guess what ... tap the "copy" button!
7. Back to the forum, use the content-embed button here (piece of paper with corner turned over) and "paste".
8. Job done.
It took a lot longer to type that out - and read it - than it does to actually do the job!
Repeat - this knowledge should really be gathered together, and maintained, in the main "how to" thread. You've now got a couple of the options for imgur covered in this thread, but the solutions are lost amongst the discussion posts, and the title of the thread doesn't really indicate that it contains the useful info.
(And lets not pretend that the search function is useful!).
Add in the steps for iOS and OSX (if that's different to Windows) and you've got the set for imgur. I presume that the steps are browser-agnostic, but might be worth checking the main ones.
I suggest that maintenance of this knowledge base be a modmin role. Users come and go (allegedly) whereas there's always a modmin team around to keep order, and keep the place running smoothly, and ensure that people can use the forum properly. And also clean up any irrelevant comment (or lock the thread) to keep it all easy to find.
https://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/2472686/#Comment_2472686
In the Imgur app, go to your album so you can see your pics.
Then you have to click on your pic ONE EXTRA TIME, so that it is in the centre of your screen, surrounded by black. THEN you click on the out-tray icon at the bottom:
And keep rockin’!!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Similarly, it seems Vanilla only wants direct links to images hosted on the web (so that it doesn't have to do the tedious and complicated job of stripping out stuff that shouldn't be there, which hosting services will do as part of their upload process). Hosting services will offer you something with an embed code (so that they can control and monitor where the image is used), so you have to get tricky to get at the pure web address of the image. That's why it's not as simple as clicking a button on Imgur and pasting here - the requirements of the two sites are at odds with each other and need a workaround.
That's my theory, anyway.
Complications arise because;
1. Different OSes or UIs display pages differently or have different ways of allowing users to access the functionality, but all of the instructions listed above are pretty much "click this button, select copy, switch windows, click that button, paste".
and
2. Everything "improves" regularly - UIs change and functionality is "enhanced", often with the objective of monetising a site or function.
and
3. User aversion to reading/understanding the how-to guide.
One of the downsides of Vanilla is, ironically, one of its strengths. Bugger all changes here. The UI and functionality are pretty much exactly as they were when we launched the forum back in 2013.
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