Go to https://postimages.org/login

Log in to your account if you have one - otherwise, enter your email address and click the "Sign Up" button to create an account

Click the "My Images" link that is just to the left of your email address in the upper right corner

Create a "gallery" (folder) to hold the photos you are going to upload. (to stay organized)

You are ready to upload your photo now:
1) Select your gallery for the photo
2) Select your image size - for posting 800x600 is a good size
3) Leave "No expiration" for the length of time you want the photo on the web
4) Now click the "Choose images" button to select the photos to be uploaded from your computer

Now that you have your photos in PostImages, you can include them in a post on the forum:
When you are typing a post on the forum, you will find the button for including a photo 3 places to the right of the smiley face button. When you click the photo button, it will ask for the full URL of the image you want to post. Here's how you get that URL:

1) Log in to your https://postimages.org account
2) Click the "my images" button in the upper right of the screen
3) Click on the gallery that has your desired photo
4) Point at the photo with your mouse and you will see the "share" icon appear above the photo to the left of the "trash can" icon.
5) Click the "share" icon.
6) The second item in the list is the "Direct Link". Click the "copy button" located on the far right of this line. This will put the URL that you need on your clipboard.
7) Back on the forum, just paste the URL on you clipboard in the Images box URL, then click OK.


Note: This may sound complicated, but trust me it is not. This post is long only because I tried to list all of the relevant steps.

Edit: Oh, I didn't mention this but if you are not using the "Tabs" feature of you browser now is when you want to start doing this. With browser tabs, you can have PostImages open in one Tab and the Forum open in another Tab. Then you just click back in forth between the two Tabs as you are writing your Forum Post. This is how you quickly include multiple photos in a single Post.

This is the box I get if I use the "Quick Post", I'm pointing to the button to insert an image:


This is the box I get if I click "Post Reply", again I'm pointing to the box you click to insert an image:

The photo only exist in your PostImages album.  Only the URL link to it is ever stored here in the forum.  That is why it would disappear here in a thread if you remove it from your Postimages album. 

By the way, the same behavior will happen if we include a link to a YouTube video here in a thread.  If that video is ever removed from YouTube, a blank reference to it will show up here in the thread it was linked in.

6sally6 wrote:

When I click Post reply  I don't get anything but........
B   I  U

Not what yours shows!
6sal6

 
Same for me Sal. Wasn't always that way....curious why that changed.
Maybe someone put me in fyiford jail....

These are my “quick post” and “post a reply” views:

MS ......Old desk top computer.
6sal6

Mine was set up per your last post....weird.

Using android phone....

Rufus68 wrote:

Josh,
Uncheck the mobile format setting.  That is probably a simplified editor for the small phone screen

 
Hmm... learnt sumpin today. Thanks Rufus.

That server error will have to be fixed by an admin or perhaps by Boardhost themselves.  Until they do, you probably won't be able to change your viewing options.  I also get the same "server error".  I suspect everyone of us would get the error.

This morning I submitted a request to Boardhost about the server error we get when we try to make changes to our Viewing Options.  If I get a response, I'll report back.