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It doesn't work linking images from your hotmail account, because you need to be logged in to hotmail (and you don't want to give us your password, trust me!) to see it. What happens is, you view it in your inbox, you post it here, while the image is still in your webcache, you see it online (even though we don't, because we were never in your inbox) and when it drops out of your webcache, you can no longer see it.

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

PP, hotmail probably retitles the urls of attached pics as your mailbox updates, so it's not a good way to post a pic. Have to get some webspace I think. Do you have a home ISP that gives you any?

― Knicker Knicker (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah - what Kate said too. Duh.

― Knicker Knicker (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

i am feeling lame today

― pika^2 (mark s), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I will put forth my normal offer to house pictures for people if they cannot.

― raus raus! fila fila! (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Im sorry kate, but I had to do it.

― Taylor Taylor (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's a real catch-22, isn't it?

― Major Major (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bucking the trend in a Kim Possible style.

― Senoir Senoir Senoir (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I might adopt this one permanently

― Rikki Tikki Tavi (RickyT), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sen-wah!

― Yapple Dapple! (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanx Nick, I used the boy's site. I am not totally down with all of this you know, I'm still learning!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

a great way to get some free image hosting is start a yahoo group. you have to make sure to set it up as a public group

― ron (ron), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

there is already an ilx yahoo group

― Pizza Pizza (dali), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes but ron, does it allow remotely embedded links to pictures? Yahoo Geocities doesn't.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can someone explain what happened to the search feature, and if the old options are going to come back? ILX is so huge now it'd be nice if it had some more choices for filtering content, and search worked well for this, though I suppose if it was slowing the server down too much it might be worthwhile to look into other options. Hope that doesn't sound ungrateful; I know it's free and lots of people have put a lot of effort in and all that.

― chester (synkro), Friday, 18 July 2003 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

The search function was unfortunately causing some temporary shutdowns of ILX, as you noted, so we're considering changes/upgrades to the server. Fear not, it will return!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks Ned, I just saw Graham's explanation on the other thread too.

My point here really is that I've found the keyword + search-after-this-day or before-this-day features more useful than the new answers page, and wanted to make sure the big lizards knew people appreciated their efforts.

― chester (synkro), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

could someone kind please eliminate my email address from the thread about "any SF-area ILXors wanna do a favor for their old pal Neudonym?"

that would be very nice. I'd say ditch the thread entirely but who cares really. plus I want gygax to read my thank you.

― Neudonym, Saturday, 19 July 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

done.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 19 July 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

apologies, it's msn groups i'm thinking of :(
you can post them elsewhere as long as you set up the group as public.

― ron (ron), Saturday, 19 July 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

you have to use their built-in upload feature rather than doing the ftp route, but other than that it seems to work ok. one small annoyance is that the urls of the pics are insanely long strings of gobbledygook

― ron (ron), Saturday, 19 July 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have posted a pic (where the link has broken) on the 'so right then, who do you fancy' thread which was in my hotmail in box. Does this mean people can now gain access to my mail & if so, please can you delete the pic. Someone has asked a question that might have come from my inbox & i am now starting to panic! cheers!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 July 2003 07:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hotmail login info isn't contained in the url, so don't worry.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 July 2003 08:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Phew, thanks very much for that N! I was very worried for a moment there!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 July 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

The reason Mark knew your name is cause of your botched link to somewhere on your hard drive, the path of which has your first name in. Do you want me to delete that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 July 2003 08:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh right, yes please! I meant to ask for that to be deleted the other day! cheers!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 July 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah I'm pretty dumb, i know!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 July 2003 08:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Could somebody explain what this whole "x-post" and "crosspost" stuff is? I've apparently missed something. I'd search for it, but...

― Simon Generic, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 07:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Its just a way of recognising that you've said the same thing as someone who was posting at the same time as you.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

x-post = "oh no what i wrote now has a different meaning bcz you just posted that , but you know what? i'm not going to rewrite it"

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 07:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

mastercard advert just lost it's work friendliness.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

whoops sorry about that

― ken c, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can someone conver these two really huge images into links.

Dorset

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm having trouble moderating the "favourite animals..." thread to say PICTURE THREAD — it won't save for me. Can another mod try this?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm getting "Subject Save Failed" too

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ich auch.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought an x-post was a thread mutating post.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

i can alter other stuff [= i just inserted three dots in my post above to check]

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

(oops i put this in the wrong moderator thread at first, here it is again)hi moderators... i'm trying to put a picture in my profile and the url won't fit, it gets chopped off short...... do i just have to get a better url or can it be fixed at this end? thanks :)

― minna (minna), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ed: done.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll look into it minna.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

thanks

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

cool thanks mr noodles

― minna (minna), Thursday, 24 July 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

btw, try again on Monday.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 24 July 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok, shall bump

― minna (minna), Thursday, 24 July 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Minna, try again when you feel like it - I've widened the field on the web page.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin it sounds to me like the database is the thing cutting it off - I don't think the form has a length limit.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does tinyurl.com work with linked images?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://tinyurl.com/hy2q

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes.

Minna - go to http://tinyurl.com, enter the address of your jpg, then use the resulting tinyurl address as your image location instead.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

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