You didn’t put a blank line in front of the URL.
Literally, if the URL isn’t the first line of the post, put a blank line separating the previous paragraph and the URL line. And if the URL isn’t the last line of the post, put in a blank line separating the URL line from the subsequent paragraph.
@pjd. There are some websites which refuse to let you link directly to their images. When they detect a request from bare link like that, instead of giving back the image, they give back nothing.
It appears that your site is one of those. There’s nothing wrong with your link.
Also, IME @gnoitall’s advice just above is never necessary. But it can be a useful crutch to prevent inadvertently having extra blanks on the start or end of the line with the url. Which extra blanks are invisible, but stymie the inline image feature.
But it’s exactly the same link in both posts…
This one and this one.
Gnoitall’s advice would explain it.
ETA, although i just tested it in the test thread, and it worked with no preceding
blank line and it showed up fine.
Agreed.
I found the cause of my trouble; it was an incorrect link. When sharing photos from Flickr, the share-copy link won’t work here.
To get the correct link, you need to click on the down-arrow as if you were going to download the image to your disk, and when the menu of available image sizes appears, right click on the one you want, then click on “Copy link address”.
Flickr has always been shite as a picture host, and their software sucks. Better use imgur, you don’t even need an account to upload photos.
I meant pasting in just the image URL without any HTML tags.
I discovered later that I had used an incorrect link and posted about it in the thread.
If I post this image, are you able to see any other images from my Google Photos account, or is it just this one pic?
Just the one image.
You can see the link…there is nothing connecting it to a URL that identifies you (or anything else you have in your account).
Excellent. I’m pretty sure I tried this once before, a few years ago, and it showed an entire gallery and I couldn’t see how to stop it from doing that. Either they changed something since, or I just did it wrong. Anyway, that’s good to know. Thanks.
If I click on the photo I get this:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipN921PMfGQ9kVkKhnCrtyjGUTUVa7frKCRazSXdIddxKm5ZUwymN8Eni0xgEquklA?pli=1&key=NXBqa0p0c3IweUcycEJYQjhpam9fby1KVVZFMHp3Nothing to identify you or anything else in your account.
Maybe, in theory, there is some info to be had in all that but good luck figuring it out before our sun turns into a white dwarf and the earth is dead.
It is 2.3 × 10^122 possibilities…more than the number of atoms in the universe (by a long shot).
I think you are pretty safe.
I think I can live with that. I’m so grateful nobody will ever see all my images of the trees in the local park.
Well, it does show GuanoLad’s real name. But it doesn’t show any other images.
Oh, that’s okay. I use my real name on my social media.
I missed that. He seems not fussed about it but worth noting since others might.
Or my candid produce photos.
I’m a celery stalker.
When image is opened in new tab that’s the address. But when I reply to post with quote, it gives https://photos.app.goo.gl/bUYpkcksd9NgnGm58
Hmm…not sure what is happening there.
..and if you right click on the image and select open image in new tab, you
get a third url …
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPy6s9IZVdx0ai9iHQZwzEFeh7NyR51Sli1jDUemFq0iyOvIYywNLLqxnJxeG3nfQ6GqUSAoumRA4HiFTcTajabDdlWQiQAEDlrD6aK5dV0K9_Dyh4=w600-h315-p-k
ETA, or is that 4th now ?!