Author Topic: Post Image download facility.  (Read 2272 times)

Offline TobyCoulson

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Post Image download facility.
« on: April 24, 2017, 10:34:58 AM »
Des, have you ever considered adding Post Image (https://postimage.io/) to the forum? I belong to the Unofficial Airfix Modellers Forum and it's part of the system there. It works very well and you can download straight from your PC/tablet/smart phone so no need for a hosting site. Apologies if you've been down this road already and decided against it.
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Re: Post Image download facility.
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 01:23:23 PM »
I have been using postimage for quite a while to download my photos to the forum, I use it as my photo hosting site. I have not heard of the system they have to download directly to the forum, you will have to enlighten me Toby bearing in mind that I am not a computer or tech savvy person. I will be very interested to know how to do this as it would make life a lot easier for the members.

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Re: Post Image download facility.
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 05:28:07 PM »
I'm not overly IT savvy either but am asking around. I'm sure there must be some members here who are though who might be able to assist. As you say installing it would make life a lot easier for all.
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Re: Post Image download facility.
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2017, 05:44:03 PM »
I've just found this link on their website that will help assuming you're using one of the accepted webhosting sites which I think you with Simple machines.
https://postimage.io/site-plugins/
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Re: Post Image download facility.
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2017, 06:44:08 PM »
Thanks Toby.  I will spend a bit of time and read through all the instructions, hopefully I will be able to get through all the computer jargon. If all else fails I can get Simple Machines to install it for me.

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Re: Post Image download facility.
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2017, 07:50:13 AM »
The only issue I can see is that the image is posted as a thumbnail size image, the viewer has to link to the postimage site for a larger image, I will do some more research before uploading the facility.

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