Am I the thickest person on the planet?

[jacey]

I know I managed it last time, but today I simply can't  post an image to my Dreamwidth blog, so I'm piling up movie-of-the-week posts and booklog posts. I paste the URL into the Insert/edit image panel, but all I get is the broken picture image.

If DW was based originally on LiveJournal, why on earth can't it simplify the way it handles images? LJ's image uploading was a doddle. I can't believe that DW will only take images from the web, so I can't post them from my computer (unless I set up the whole email posting thing, which also seems to have drawbacks in terms of formatting, i.e. pics at the end of the blogpost, not integrated). I don't do Instagram, so if I have an image on my hard drive am I supposed to post it to a website before I can upload it to DW? What a palaver!

Your input welcome. Thanks.

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[cmcmck]

I post them in via the much sworn at photobucket and that seems to work okay.

I believe DW does now have photohosting but I've not bothered with it up to now because if PB goes arse out of the water as looks possible, I have my lovely Google based PC with shedloads of storage available and everything's backed up to there.

Doing images using the code also seems to work

[zeborah]

I suspect images for both LJ and DW were added after the two codebases had already diverged. (By now I understand they've significantly diverged.)

There's information about DW's image hosting here which includes a link to their upload images web interface (also available via your "Create" tab). It's not the most straight-forward system I've seen but not the worst either - it's probably on a par with WordPress.

(I don't use this system myself, have always uploaded to flickr and linked to there.)

[watervole]

I use Flickr as well. I tried Google photos for a while, but that was messy with DW. Flickr seems to be much easier.

LJ images were indeed added after the split with DW

[jacey]

Thanks... so it's still a two step process. I've tried uploading to a private board on Pinterest, but when I put in the URL to DW I get the broken photo image. Am I doing something wrong? I'm sure i managed to upload that way last time, but now it no longer seems to work for me.

[zeborah]

I generally handcode my html, but testing it now it seems to work for me. It just autogenerates the same html that I'd write, that is along the lines of:

<img src="http://example.com/example.jpg" />

Can you give me an example URL that you're trying?

[jacey]

I got it to work with images plucked from the web. The problem might have been trying to post images from Pinterest. Thanks for the input.