Photos and Video

I think the Story section is ruined by the new method as you can't add photos within the story by simple means. Whilst the five photos you can add at the start of a story are well done I think even the current method of adding photos to any post is awful. Photos added should appear full size (500 pixel width max) in posts rather than as thumbnails. Whilst they need a system that covers all platforms it seems that in order to allow the use of Apple products they have had to compromise so much you do wonder whether there is much point to it all? It is beyond comprehension that they have introduced a system which requires all photos to be uploaded the the forum server rather than the simple means of a URL as used by most forums.

David

You mention Apple products David, were you able to load photos from Android devices? Whilst I would agree it would be nice if both systems were available, for those that want them, the system of 5 expandable thumbnails does open up photo posting to the masses. Whilst the quality is not brilliant, it is certainly adequate. It also means that those who have no wish or desire to upload their photos to the cloud, can now post photos.

Steve

Whilst I have an Android phone I would not use to load photos to a website, except perhaps Facebook but even then I would prefer to do it from my PC. I have sent pictures taken on the phone by e-mail but otherwise I would find it far to fiddly and time consuming. 

Ironically have you noticed, apart from the early days of the new forum, how few photographs are now actually uploaded to the forum?

David

The lack of pictures is cos its stil far to much of a faff. I had a go last night to load a picture of Molly One Ear but gave up when I found that the max picture size was a ridiculous small 500 & as Im on a tablet I'd no idea how to resize. 

I would agree that currently there does not seem to be much use of photos. However, I was putting this down to the time of year, with not many folks out and about. I would expect it to pick up. Only time will tell.

MM I don't know what tablet you have but if an Apple device you can download this resize app, which is free and very easy to use. Literally takes about 1 minute to resize a photo and put it in your post. It saves the image back into your photos but does not overwrite the original. If it is an Android device the same app seems to be available. I could not figure how to put a link to the play store. However the photo below shows what it looks like.

We're out and about and have just had three nights for the price of two at Stanmore Hall affiliated site near Bridgnorth. Here's a photo from the Castle Walk.

and here's the campsite.

Chas

Can you tell me how you copied those photos into the body of the post?

David

I thought 500px was the max yet yours appear without scrollbars.