In @Mean_Mr.Mustard’s monthly photography threads (here for Nov 2025 ➜ **Monthly Photo Competition #36– November, 2025 – “A Whole Lot of _____”** ■ ) we recently discovered that images hosted on imgur are not viewable by Dopers in the UK, due to reasons.
In the related thread for Rolling Discussions we determined that ImgBB works (here ➜ SDMB Monthly Photo Competition - rolling discussion thread - #1723 by Mean_Mr.Mustard bullitt ■ ) and we defined steps for a PC. See the Nov 2025 thread link above.
For those like me who are doing almost everything these days on an iPhone, here are the steps for displaying your images on the SDMB that you’ve uploaded to ImgBB:
Prerequisite 1: on http://imgbb.com create your account and create an album for you to place the images you will want to include on the SDMB. I call my album Dope Pics.
Prerequisite 2: these steps assume that the photo you want displayed on the SDMB is already on your iPhone.
ImgBB on an iPhone, steps to display images for the SDMB
- Go to ImgBB and click on one of your albums to upload your image to (at the top, select your avatar, then select Albums; then select the desired album; your album with its photos displays)
- Upload your image (at the top, next to your avatar, click on the upload icon; it is a cloud with an up arrow)
Note 1 — sometimes the ImgBB preview shows my pic rotated 90° CW. I upload that anyway and these steps have displayed my image correctly.
Note 2 — the upload to ImgBB typically takes longer than the upload to imgur.
- Once your image is added to your ImgBB album, an ImgBB page will display, for {Upload Complete, Uploaded content added to (your album)}
- Select your photo, copy its link (at bottom), paste into new tab
- Long press on your photo, Share, Copy
- Paste this URL into SDMB; it should have a .jpg file extension at the end of the URL
You’re done! Hopefully this works for you. Let us know if any edits are needed.