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[Linemen]

Hi I was wondering how do I post pics of WIP of my chinook here?

    Thank you

      Ted

[LSP_Kevin]

Firstly, welcome aboard, Ted!

 

 

I've taken the liberty of moving your question here to General Discussion, where it more appropriately belongs.

 

To answer it, however, you got the first part right: start a new thread in the Works in Progress forum. So I'm guessing that your question really revolves around how to post images. For this, you'll need a third-party site or service to host your images, as you can't upload them directly to our server as part of your post. The basic premise is that you upload them elsewhere (there are plenty of image-hosting services online, such as Imgur, Imageshack, SmugMug, and others, but you can even use Facebook, Google Photos, Flickr, and the like). Once you've done that, you'll need to copy the direct URL of the image, and then paste it in to your forum post. The forum software will then display the image for you.

 

The act of copying that direct URL is where people seem to have the most trouble, and why I'd recommend a dedicated image hosting service over something more generic. They will give you better and clearer access to the direct URL of the image, whereas with other sites, you're more likely to inadvertently copy something that isn't that, and probably won't work as expected.

 

When you're ready, just start a new topic in the Works in Progress forum, and start posting!

 

Kev

[Biggles323]

Why do some forums allow uploading pics from PC, where as this one needs a third party host? Wouldn't be more convenient to members to upload from PC?

[LSP_Kevin]

4 minutes ago, Biggles323 said:

Why do some forums allow uploading pics from PC, where as this one needs a third party host? Wouldn't be more convenient to members to upload from PC?

 

More convenient? Yes! But sustainable? No! The fact is we don't have unlimited server space, and images take up a lot of storage on a server hard drive. Most of the forums that still allow direct image uploads are either smaller/less busy than we are, or aren't particularly image-driven. We (LSP), on the other hand, average around 300 new posts per day, with a significant portion of those containing multiple images. Take this for a conservative example:

 

Let's say that, of the 300 posts made on any given day, an average of 100 of those contains an average of 2 images. And let's say, for argument's sake, that the average size of all those images is 1MB (many will be smaller, but some will be far larger, too). That gives us a storage growth figure of 73,000 images per year (100*2*365), or 73 gigabytes of new storage. Every year. Even if that estimate is out by as much as 50%, and it's only 36GB, that's just not tenable. We'd have been forced off the Internet long ago, or more realistically, had to make the same decision we've already made, just a bit later in the piece.

 

I hope that explains it.

 

Kev

[Dave Williams]

20 minutes ago, Biggles323 said:

Why do some forums allow uploading pics from PC, where as this one needs a third party host? Wouldn't be more convenient to members to upload from PC?

Also, some years ago, Aircraft Resource Center ( which uses the same forum software) had a pretty bad hack that came in disguised as an uploaded image.

Edited February 22, 2020 by Dave Williams

[thierry laurent]

Indeed, that approach is also far more secure. 

[Jack]

sooo........now you know to upload any WIP pictures of your Chinook:  LET'S SHOW THEM!!!

And indeed welcome to LSP, you're gonna like it!!!