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stealth
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still cant upload pics ????

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How about making it easy for people to post pics on here ! Like straight from phone to forum
It might get a lot more posts going and make the site interesting again , I think that as its way to hard I know that I have never bothered to have a thread on my lancer
just a thought
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It takes about 30 seconds for me to upload a picture from my computer folder to SG. But it does require having an account with a pic host site. I use ImageShack.

http://imgur.com/ is a good free host site.
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I use photobucket and it's quite easy.

Saves having random pic's stored on your phone also.
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Don't get me wrong , I have a account with photobucket and pics are there but im unable to get them to work here
Do all the cut and paste and all the back and forth takes like 10mins and then no pics just the url address
Then you go to the tutorial and get nothing but an insult!
Obviously im not a rocket scientist im a race car fabricator who cant work out how to operate a forum
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I can't get photos from my iPad to SG, just the URL
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When you upload your pic to a file host ..you should get a bunch of different links.. The one you want is this [img]xxxxx[/img] Usually it will be listed as "forum"
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I can get it to work from my wife's laptop but not the iPad
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I know sigmaproject
But it doesnt work
My point is on ebay /facebook you go straight from your phone no photobucket and way quicker and actually works
Ive been a member here since this site started and still am unable to participate in a build thread or whatever
EVL076 used to put pics up for me until he left
I just think it would be great if sg was easier to use
Im not the only one , seen many come and go and I think there would be more posts and more interest
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I'm no rocket scientist when it comes to stuff like this, but I do remember someone saying a while ago (cause I asked the same questions) that it would cost more to run the site if it it had to store the photos as well. Thus the site just uses links so the pics show up when you upload each page.

It's not all that hard to include the image tags, but if you have't seen it done it would be harder.
Here's a sample of what it should look like.
Here's the url tag you get from photobucket or facebook or other photo storage site
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 9f13f015ad

Here it is with the Img tags (because it's an image you want to load up with your text you add on here, not a url tag to create a link to another site)

[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 9f13f015ad[/img]

start tag > [img] url for pic in this spot [/img] < finish tag

If you don't have these, it wont work.

Use the preview option instead of just submit, that way you can check to see if your link works.

I hope this helps?

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This site is on par with most of the other forums I'm a member of, hey I'm even the main moderator on one and as mentioned, linking the image from a photo hosting site, saves the host servers from storing them.

Since I'm a top C, if you start up a build thread and can only post the URL or HTML for the image, I can attach the image to the thread for you.

I check this site a few times a day (Yep, that many!) and will happily attach the pic's for you.

Just let me know when you start up the thread and it's title.
From there, I always hit the "view active topics" when I hit the site, so I will see if you have added anything new.


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I always use the preview feature

And oh ok I didnt realize it would cost more to have pics !
At least I've learned something , thanks dave

So im going to get some "special high intensity training " shit for short ,on computers today see if this gets me closer
If no joy I will take you up on it Belial , thanks for offering your a nice c
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