Tutorial: Posting a picture in the TexAgs forums with Imgur [updated]

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To post a picture in our forums, you must first upload the picture to the internet. You can use any number of services available today, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Photos, Instagram and many others. This tutorial will show you have to upload a photo using the Imgur.com service.

Note: "rookies" can only post links to photos

To better manage your photos over time, it is recommended you create a Imgur account, but you can follow these instructions without creating one. (NOTE: if you do not create an account, you will not be able to remove the photo after you leave the page).

STEP 1: Go to http://imgur.com and click on New post in the upper left corner.


STEP 2: Select Browse OR drag images to the window.


STEP 3: Choose the image on your computer that you want to upload, then click Open.


STEP 4: Once your post is created, hover your mouse over the image, click on the arrow in the upper right corner of the photo and then click Get share links.


STEP 5: Look for the "BBCode (Forums)" box and click Copy.


STEP 6: In your TexAgs post, right click on your post text box and then click Paste, OR press CTRL+V on your keyboard.


STEP 7: Once you've pasted, the image will automatically appear in your post editor (NOTE: image will appear larger once posted).
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Guys, I did everything in those instructions and posted a picture the other day. But it only shows up as a link and the post does not seem to render the image directly.

Is there something I am missing?

#noob
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sorry roxtar, rookies can only post links to pictures, not the pictures themselves.

i'll add it to the faq
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I still can't get this to work for me. I've followed the instructions explicitly but all I get is a broken image icon in my post.
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Why not just instruct to copy the bb code link and paste that into the reply text field? No need to click the photo button (which doesn't exist on mobile, anyway) and works more often than the direct link.
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My hope is to help familiarize users with our interface (as opposed to them pasting a code they don't understand).

This tutorial is intended for desktop users. The IMGUR interface is quite different for mobile too.
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I think this needs an update, as imgur changed its format.

Also, on mobile, the photos no longer open in their own tab when clicked. Is that a TexAgs thing, imgur thing, or browser (chrome) thing? It now opens to the imgur website.
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redline248 said:

I think this needs an update, as imgur changed its format.

Also, on mobile, the photos no longer open in their own tab when clicked. Is that a TexAgs thing, imgur thing, or browser (chrome) thing? It now opens to the imgur website.
I've updated the tutorial to work with the newer version of Imgur.com. Since their update, it's not a simple process to get the direct image link anymore. Now, you can use the BBCode share link to post Imgur images on TexAgs.
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I've been trying to figure out how to post pictures from the Imgur app on my phone and nothing I've tried seems to work. Could you maybe elaborate on what needs to be done?
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IYACYAS12 said:

I've been trying to figure out how to post pictures from the Imgur app on my phone and nothing I've tried seems to work. Could you maybe elaborate on what needs to be done?
Imgur is a pain in the ass to upload on mobile... On an iphone, the procedure is as follows:

  • Hold down on the picture until the pop up comes up that says "message, mail, etc"
  • click "copy link"
  • paste into texags. You will have to manually enter the IMG code, so the link will look like this: [ IMG ] your link [/ IMG ] (no space between brackets and letters

For some god unknown reason there is not an option to copy the BBCode (which includes the Script [ IMG ] [/ IMG ])
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Is there a limit on the number of pics that can be put in one post?
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