How to Upload Photos in a post?

The image must be hosted elsewhere on the web, not uploaded from your computer. It may already be on a web page, in which case you right click on it and copy the address, or hosted on your own server, or perhaps an image-hosting site like Flickr or Imgur.

Wherever it is, when you get to the part of your post where you want an image inserted among the pearls of wisdom, you click on the image icon that is sixth from the left in the toolbar at the top of the post composition window (it looks like a mountain skyline with a sun in the sky). A dialog box pops up and you paste in the image address in the URL box. Ignore the rest of it for now and click 'OK'. Finish the words of wisdom, preview for spelling errors and then post. Done.

Flickr is a bit complicated, as it loves to insert a junk URL that, essentially, advertises their site. Here's a photo of mine at Flickr:

But to do that I had to go to the photo in my 'Photostream', click on it, click on the 'Share' icon (a curved arrow), select BBCode, and get this link:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2o1jGc3][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52512188656_ab60d34d5e_c.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2o1jGc3]Reference_Series_V[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrism229/]chrism229[/url], on Flickr

I then reduced that link in the Image box here by selecting and deleting everything after 'jpg' and everything before the second 'https' leaving just this:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52512188656_ab60d34d5e_c.jpg

And the Image dialog here just puts the image tags [img][/img] around that address.

If you use Flickr's simple link, which the Flickr Share box helpfully calls 'Share' you get a link to the page with the image on, but not an image inline in a post here:

https://flic.kr/p/2o1jGc3

You'll get the hang of it!

It is pretty trivial to set up something like phpBB (I’m not an IT person, merely an amateur, and I recently set up a forum for CLL patient support), but the big thing is the loss of the existing posts. That is very hard to import. At best one could have the old forum in read only format as well as the new, with links between them.

I think it's fair to say that while we enjoy the forums, they are a sideline for Audiogon, which is a for-profit business for re-selling audio gear.