/kbin meta

4 readers

1 users here now

Magazine dedicated to discussions about the kbin itself. Provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics. ---- * Roadmap 2023 * m/kbinDevlog * m/kbinDesign

founded 1 year ago

Where are folks hosting images they want to post to kbin? Uploading images never works for me, and using imgur link gets no thumbnail. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My understanding is that the imgur thing is imgur's fault, but until the image upload functionality is working I don't really know what the best choice is.

top 13 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I said, the image upload seems not to work for me for some reason. Appreciate the sarcasm though. /s

[–] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have ublock Origin, NoScript or something similar installed on your browser? Maybe you have blocked the script that uploads the image or something

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK - the issue seems actually to be a lack of visual feedback when doing the image upload. There's nothing letting me know my image has been successfully uploaded, so I've been closing that dialog in frustration every time. I actually got the "We are working on resolving issues" message trying to figure out if it actually took my upload this time, but turns out it did.

Now that I no longer expect it to show me that the upload has succeeded before I submit, I think I'm good.

[–] 10A@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny, that image link is 404 Not Found.

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm - maybe I broke the rules of /m/random - it was this picture.

[–] 10A@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've got your parties backward, but thank you.

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

You're welcome, and OK.

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm now I think I had tested that days ago, but you are making me paranoid that I did not. I will check now! Thanks!

[–] QualifiedKitten@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also having this issue and have been unable to create new image posts since at least last Thursday. I never notice any issue with the upload dialog, but I always get the "We are working on resolving issues" message once I try to submit my post, and when I check my post history, nothing new come up. Posting from Chrome on Android.

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I don't have a suggestion for you, my details are different.

[–] Taur10@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use IMGBB, been using it for my Friendica as it gives convenient cut and paste BB Code which Friendica can parse. I did test Kbin and found it parses the HTML code they offer... Or at least did when I was testing, let's see, does this work?

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

thanks - that particular embed seems not to have worked, but I will check it out also.