We all love seeing more photos, but there are some quirks to getting them up on Prime and at the request of a member, I wanted to share some of the techniques that work best for me:
Step 1: Host your images some where online.
While NSXPrime allows the upload of attachments, there is very wisely a limit set on those attachments. That's because NSXPrime is in the business of providing an awesome NSX community and not in the business of hosting photos (which can get costly). So I try to keep my images off Prime and on somewhere else.
I like ImageShack mostly because I have been using it for a while now, but really any where will do. The only important aspect is that you have a DIRECT link to the graphic and not to a shell hosting page. As a general rule, linking to Facebook hosted images is usually a fail. I have had similar problems with Microsoft skydrive, they try to put an embedded version of your graphic in rather than a direct link to the graphic file.
If you want to test, paste your link to the graphic in to a browser. If all you should see is the graphic and no extra stuff around it, you should be fine. If however there is some sort of frame, advertisement, details about the image, etc, etc, it is probably a link to a shell page and not a link to your graphic.
Step 2: Create a link to your image
When making a post, click on the little "insert image icon" and you should see the popup below. If you don't see a popup, you probably have some sort of pop up blocker. Switch "from computer" to "from URL" and be sure to uncheck the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" or else the whole notion of hosting remotely is a waste. Then hit "ok" and you should be good to go!
Step 3: Uhh..that doesn't work in my browser!
It may sound callous, but consider switching browsers. Sadly keeping forum software up to date for all the various browsers is a major pain (I've been there), so you may want to make things easier and just go with a mainstream browser. I personally use Chrome for viewing this site and it works like a charm. You may save yourself some stress by installing Chrome and using it to surf NSXPrime.
I hope this helps some folks out, feel free to ask questions if you got them. I will give answers (and screenshots) if I have them.
Step 1: Host your images some where online.
While NSXPrime allows the upload of attachments, there is very wisely a limit set on those attachments. That's because NSXPrime is in the business of providing an awesome NSX community and not in the business of hosting photos (which can get costly). So I try to keep my images off Prime and on somewhere else.
I like ImageShack mostly because I have been using it for a while now, but really any where will do. The only important aspect is that you have a DIRECT link to the graphic and not to a shell hosting page. As a general rule, linking to Facebook hosted images is usually a fail. I have had similar problems with Microsoft skydrive, they try to put an embedded version of your graphic in rather than a direct link to the graphic file.
If you want to test, paste your link to the graphic in to a browser. If all you should see is the graphic and no extra stuff around it, you should be fine. If however there is some sort of frame, advertisement, details about the image, etc, etc, it is probably a link to a shell page and not a link to your graphic.
Step 2: Create a link to your image
When making a post, click on the little "insert image icon" and you should see the popup below. If you don't see a popup, you probably have some sort of pop up blocker. Switch "from computer" to "from URL" and be sure to uncheck the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" or else the whole notion of hosting remotely is a waste. Then hit "ok" and you should be good to go!
Step 3: Uhh..that doesn't work in my browser!
It may sound callous, but consider switching browsers. Sadly keeping forum software up to date for all the various browsers is a major pain (I've been there), so you may want to make things easier and just go with a mainstream browser. I personally use Chrome for viewing this site and it works like a charm. You may save yourself some stress by installing Chrome and using it to surf NSXPrime.
I hope this helps some folks out, feel free to ask questions if you got them. I will give answers (and screenshots) if I have them.
