No more thumbnail pictures...?

[MaryMary]

Yesterday, I copied and pasted @zigs' photo of "MaryMary Mallow," and tried to make it a thumbnail. He knows what he posted, I don't need to post the big picture of it. I just wanted to post a thumbnail to let him know I saw it.

It was also a nice option for when someone posts a string of pictures, and I want to know what is "this plant in this photo" - I would thumbnail the photo with my question, so that they didn't have to go back to their post to figure out what was in the third one down. I found it handy.

The thumbnail option is gone?

It's not a big thing, I'm mostly just curious. I also used to use that option to look at the "Photo of the Month" pictures. I would copy and paste the pics to the bottom of the voting thread, then make them all thumbnails, so I could get a better idea of what the picture would look like, smaller, as it will be on the sidebar. Kind of a preview of what it would actually look like...it's been the tie-breaker a couple times!!

 

[Ian]

I've not changed anything on the forum, so it should work as before - can you run me through how you post the thumbnail and I'll try it at my end .

Normally, when using the "upload a file" button, it will list the attachments under the post editor and then it will have a "thumbnail" and "full image" button where you can insert the post. For example, this is inserted as a thumbnail:

 

[MaryMary]

I right click the mouse and select "Copy image." Then paste it, full size, into the thread. Then, at the bottom, I would have the option to select "full image" or "thumbnail," just as if I were posting a picture of my own.

I just checked - I can still make thumbnails of my own pictures, but it doesn't work when I copy and paste other people's photos anymore.

 

[MaryMary]

Well, you might need a full size picture to try what I described!!

 

[zigs]

I get the same if i copy and paste...

 

[MaryMary]

@zigs - do you get the option to make it a thumbnail? I used to, and I don't anymore.

 

[zigs]

Not with copy and paste as you'm bypassing the upload system

 

[MaryMary]

Bypassed or not, the system did let me do it, and now it won't. I can't remember specifically which threads I have done this in - wait, yes, I can!!



What's Looking Good in May 2017

 

[zigs]

Well, you might need a full size picture to try what I described!!

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[JBtheExplorer]

I don't remember ever being able to do that, but you could save the photo and then upload it yourself if you needed to.

 

[zigs]

That's all i could manage

 

[MaryMary]

It's not really that big of a problem!! I guess if I want to know the name of a plant, I can ask the person, and let them scroll back to their photo, or I can copy and paste the full image. It was nice to preview the Photo of the Month selections, though.


I just found it handy, and wondered what happened.

 

[MaryMary]

@Rajesh Sethi, how did you do that? Did you have to download my picture then upload it?

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

Sorry, above method not working, please someone delete two of my posts.

I tried insert then tried uploading, insert one didn't show at all.those other were from upload.

sorry for confusion!

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

can't figure it out how to add "height" and "width" option to image, on different site I have html option to resize image from background.

Its not working here!

 

[Ian]

I think it's probably a change in how the browser works, rather than the site - I know that some browsers would try and "upload" the image when pasted in, some just link to the existing image. I think you'd have to do it the longer way to get it working now, unfortunately.

Which browser are you using, and I'll see if there's anything I can find that might re-enable it .

 

[Stink Bug]

Seems fine

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

Seems fine

Gecko, cute! Its hard to find now as my cats started to kill them for fun.

 

[MaryMary]

Ian, I am using Firefox.

 

[Ian]

Ian, I am using Firefox.

Thanks . Did you upgrade to the new "Quantum" version recently?