What do you mean by “insert an image”? Because to me that means something different than what @kenobi_65 suggested.
In short you can’t insert an image directly but you can insert a link to an image hosted elsewhere.
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.
I have been having problems with image linking too :-
Why does this one not show up in this post ?
ETA : wtf ?! it was showing as just the url, now it’s appeared !
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.
I wasn’t using my phone; I used an ASUS notebook running W10
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.
A test.
This is a testy, of the Emergency Hoo-Ha System.
It is only a test.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da78243864a8e477617fcad3d8220818b175e9133dd530eaf3296b626ea01d00.gif
Still don’t work.
You must paste the raw URLs on a line by themselves. They should not have any extra brackets around them.
What is all the crap after .jpg? 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.
I’ll try–
AAAAHH. There we go.
BTW, for those who might care, the comic is Nineteen-Ninety Something LINK
Trying to get some learning in here, so this doesn’t just remain a mystery of trial and error.
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:
Capeesh?
Thank you.
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?
Without seeing what you tried to post it’s impossible to answer.
I think for testing purposes, images from wikipedia are a good way to test the idea.
Ah, that could explain it…
but not why it’s still not appeared in this post :-