Can pictures be posted here?

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. One important thing that a LOT of people apparently don't do.....

is to hit the "Preview" button BEFORE hitting the "Post My Thread" or "Post My Reply" button.

If you preview a post into which you have added a pic and it has text after the ".jpg" or .png or whatever, that text is not necessary.

For instance, I'll put up a random picture of a mountain I find by Googling "Mountains". I use Firefox as a browser, so when I go to Google images, and choose a pic by clicking on it, it appears in a window alongside the main window of images. I then right click and choose "Open image in new tab". This give you a clear look at the URL you are going to copy and paste to your DU post. Sometimes images will have text or symbols after the .jpg at the end. If they appear at the bottom of the photo when you hit Preview, it will look like this;

odne83k


That "odne83k" (which I intentionally added to make the point) is code the software does not need to put up the pic, so I go back to the text box and remove it, so the pic shows up like this;





The same goes for Twitter posts so many, including me, like to post on DU.
Using their share feature adds a bunch of useless code that can be removed to make your post look cleaner, like this;

Normal Twitter link code;

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=M9CFeUhofH5eghTSHhk-DQ


It's obvious that everything from the question mark onward is not needed, so I'll go back and remove it.

Link to tweet

Makes for a much cleaner looking post.

Have fun!