# How do I copy an image into a thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [December 21, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981 "2024-12-21T17:45:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/21 "2025-01-25T14:29:28Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I tried to insert an image just now, and I got an error message. What do you mean by “insert an image”? Because to me that means something different than what @kenobi_65 suggested. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/22 "2025-01-25T14:59:15Z")
In short you can’t insert an image directly but you can insert a link to an image hosted elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/23 "2025-01-25T16:58:24Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I’ve done this in the past, but now it doesn’t seem to be allowed. Interesting. Might have been a temporary glitch, or a user error, or it may have been a particular file format for the image which Discourse won’t allow. It’s working just fine for me this morning. [![](https://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8/5/4/3854.1094276700.jpg) ](https://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8/5/4/3854.1094276700.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/24 "2025-01-25T17:46:36Z")
I have been having problems with image linking too :- Why does this one not show up in this post ? [![](https://i.ibb.co/T11PFP3/VS.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/T11PFP3/VS.jpg) ETA : wtf ?! it was showing as just the url, now it’s appeared ! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/25 "2025-01-25T18:48:22Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I’ve done this in the past, but now it doesn’t seem to be allowed. I tried to insert an image just now, and I got an error message. I forget the exact wording, but it was something like “Media files can’t be embedded.” That is a common problem on phones. The phone “helpfully” assumes you’re trying to copy the actual pixels of the image into the post. So when you go to the page with the pic, the “share” or “copy” operation doesn’t grab the url of the pic, it grabs the pixels of the pic. Then when you try to paste that into Discourse, the edit box recognizes that your phone is trying to insert pixels, not a text url. And it balks at that with the “no media uploads allowed” message. This behavior is by design and is permanent and happens every time. The problem only _seems_ intermittent to you because it depends on which tool on your phone you used to look at or create the pic, _and_ how you used that app to attempt to copy/share/whatever the pic you’re interested in. Given all those possibilities, we can’t say more about what specifically went wrong unless you can tell us _exactly_ where the pic was coming from, what you did with which app(s) to try to capture & share it, and which model of phone you have. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/26 "2025-01-26T01:47:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > That is a common problem on phones. I wasn’t using my phone; I used an ASUS notebook running W10 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/27 "2025-01-26T01:55:06Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > ETA : wtf ?! it was showing as just the url, now it’s appeared ! Sometimes, it takes a few moments for the URL to resolve and load an image; if it’s a particularly big image, it might take longer. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/28 "2025-01-26T02:00:35Z")
A test. This is a testy, of the Emergency Hoo-Ha System. It is only a test. [https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da78243864a8e477617fcad3d8220818b175e9133dd530eaf3296b626ea01d00.gif](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da78243864a8e477617fcad3d8220818b175e9133dd530eaf3296b626ea01d00.gif) [https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg) Nuts. Won’t work. Hmmm… [https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/d0a57a67-3d9c-4224-96f8-2e2dcb7fbf13/dj1gxgb-00e78962-8a12-44bb-9254-05b3161dc927.jpg/v1/fill/w\_1280,h\_1979,q\_75,strp/modal\_nodes\_concert\_poster\_update\_by\_thedoodlebags\_dj1gxgb-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTk3OSIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2QwYTU3YTY3LTNkOWMtNDIyNC05NmY4LTJlMmRjYjdmYmYxM1wvZGoxZ3hnYi0wMGU3ODk2Mi04YTEyLTQ0YmItOTI1NC0wNWIzMTYxZGM5MjcuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEyODAifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.krX0Dpg7kEV4nNCj3faxNLLG-\_r7UBLIby\_bMGa0kpQ](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/d0a57a67-3d9c-4224-96f8-2e2dcb7fbf13/dj1gxgb-00e78962-8a12-44bb-9254-05b3161dc927.jpg/v1/fill/w_1280,h_1979,q_75,strp/modal_nodes_concert_poster_update_by_thedoodlebags_dj1gxgb-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTk3OSIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2QwYTU3YTY3LTNkOWMtNDIyNC05NmY4LTJlMmRjYjdmYmYxM1wvZGoxZ3hnYi0wMGU3ODk2Mi04YTEyLTQ0YmItOTI1NC0wNWIzMTYxZGM5MjcuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEyODAifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.krX0Dpg7kEV4nNCj3faxNLLG-_r7UBLIby_bMGa0kpQ) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/29 "2025-01-26T02:15:44Z")
[https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg) Still don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/30 "2025-01-26T02:20:03Z")
[![](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da78243864a8e477617fcad3d8220818b175e9133dd530eaf3296b626ea01d00.gif) ](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da78243864a8e477617fcad3d8220818b175e9133dd530eaf3296b626ea01d00.gif) [![](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg) ](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg) You must paste the raw URLs on a line by themselves. They should not have any extra brackets around them. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/31 "2025-01-26T02:41:30Z")
What is all the crap after .jpg? You may have better luck without it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/32 "2025-01-26T04:33:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > You may have better luck without it. I tried doing one of the images without all the other junk and got a 401 error (which means “unauthorized”). Looks like these are links to a site that doesn’t want people linking to the images. Not every site is a good one for images. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/33 "2025-01-26T11:46:18Z")
I’ll try– [![](https://1990somethingcomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1995_01_26.png) ](https://1990somethingcomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1995_01_26.png) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/34 "2025-01-26T11:49:03Z")
AAAAHH. There we go. BTW, for those who might care, the comic is [Nineteen-Ninety Something LINK](https://1990somethingcomic.com/) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/35 "2025-01-26T12:43:46Z")
Trying to get some learning in here, so this doesn’t just remain a mystery of trial and error. > [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > [https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg) > > Still don’t work. That did not display inline because what you inserted was `[https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg)` Which is code for a clickable url whose displayed link text is everything between the [ ]s and the actual url it jumps to is everything between the ( )s. In this particular case those two blobs of text are the same so it _looks_ like you’ve pasted a bare url that somehow doesn’t preview. But that’s _not_ what you really did. If instead you had inserted just `https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg` on a line by itself with absolutely nothing, not even spaces, before or after it, then you’d have gotten the right result: [![](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg) ](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00f095c420fb2154ad2de201dfc076c10ee236476ee96cd04b8186066417c920.jpg) Capeesh? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/36 "2025-01-26T13:14:37Z")
Thank you. [![](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/626ebca4ad6fd29cdbb7b4df77f7470d7340e9b8c0bfd61bee10e35faff98550.jpg) ](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/626ebca4ad6fd29cdbb7b4df77f7470d7340e9b8c0bfd61bee10e35faff98550.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/37 "2025-01-26T23:36:21Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > You must paste the raw URLs on a line by themselves. They should not have any extra brackets around them. I tried that in a test reply, but it didn’t produce the images. WTH? Or did I just try to edit the urls and re-pasting was somehow necessary? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/38 "2025-01-26T23:42:21Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I tried that in a test reply, but it didn’t produce the images. WTH? Without seeing what you tried to post it’s impossible to answer. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/39 "2025-01-27T00:14:15Z")
I think for testing purposes, images from wikipedia are a good way to test the idea. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981/40 "2025-01-27T09:50:30Z")
Ah, that could explain it… but not why it’s still not appeared in this post :- > [@For volcano watchers - maybe you'll get lucky! {Kilauea may be erupting}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/135): > > Here’s a screen shot from 02:10 on 2025/01/24 … What are all the (stationary) dots of light all over the place ? [https://i.ibb.co/T11PFP3/VS.jpg](https://i.ibb.co/T11PFP3/VS.jpg) eta : don’t know why this image isn’t appearing in the post … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-copy-an-image-into-a-thread/1011981.md?page=3)