why is it such a PIA to post a bloody photo here ? this platform is cranky as hell !

Yes, it has been accepting pasting anything you copy in your clipboard for a while now (it didn’t used to). That makes it easy to copy an image from anywhere, including from your computer and paste here. this is online, a simple copy and paste

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Previously (and if they restrict it again), you had to know how to paste the address of an image that was already online,

1st, pick an online image, anywhere, right click it and ’copy image address’ (it’s url)

2. in your post here, top bar, click 6th icon from left, ’image’.

dialog box opens, waiting for you to paste the image’s url

bingo, it appears. you can name it anything in the ’alternative text’ box

lately, they come in distorted when I use this method, this is the same image that I simply copied and pasted above

Oh balls.

(insert picture here that does not show up in post unless photo is already online)

Mozart balls.

Still a royal pita.

fb has allowed "private" posting from day 1. Here images have to be at least "on the cloud." My photos are synced and it's not worth waiting for a fresh addition-edit.

@elliottbnewcombjr thanks for the example of how the forum's official method is FLAWED (in addition to LACkING.)

Right click an image on the web, copy "image address"

Paste it into the image url.

If it is your own image, stick it on imgur.com or some other image hosting site. Copy "image address’, do the same as above.