Closed Adding attachments

[Hix]

In the past, when posting, I was able to add attachments - photos not uploaded to ZooChat (or anywhere else on the web) - directly from my computer, and they would appear as attachments at the bottom of the post.

Since the upgrade I can't see how to do that now.



Hix

 

[Arizona Docent]

Hmm, interesting point. I guess you cannot any more. At the top of the box I am typing in there is a symbol for embedding media from ZooChat and two symbols for hyperlinking photos from other internet sites, but no way to directly attach a photo from the computer. Too bad as I occasionally used this feature on the old site just as you did.

 

[Simon Hampel]

You mean this button here?

 

[Arizona Docent]

Ooops! I was looking at the icons on the top bar. Thanks for clarification.

 

[Simon Hampel]

Just for the record, my intention is that uploading (attaching) photos directly to threads (and not "zoo" photos in the gallery) is done via a personal album in the photo gallery. That gives the user control over the photos that they don't get via an attachment (including the ability to delete, edit, rotate, move, re-categorise, etc).



You create a personal album, upload your photos there, then embed them using the BBCode into your thread.



... which gives this:

Note however, that only premium members can create personal albums.

 

[Hix]

But that button will not allow me to attach a jpeg. It only recognises zip, png, pdf and txt files.

 

[Simon Hampel]

But that button will not allow me to attach a jpeg. It only recognises zip, png, pdf and txt files.

Yes, as per this:

Just for the record, my intention is that uploading (attaching) photos directly to threads (and not "zoo" photos in the gallery) is done via a personal album in the photo gallery.

 

[Arizona Docent]

I just discovered I could not upload a JPEG so I converted it to PNG and then uploaded. However the thumbnail is an X and not showing the image. (You can click on that to view the photo in its own window).

 

[Simon Hampel]

I just discovered I could not upload a JPEG so I converted it to PNG and then uploaded. However the thumbnail is an X and not showing the image. (You can click on that to view the photo in its own window).

Please don't convert photos to PNG format - it's a very inefficient format for complex images found in photos and is much more suited to computer generated images such as logos and website graphics.

I deliberately disabled the ability to attach JPG files - please upload them to the gallery instead and embed them into your posts.