# "You can’t embed media items in a post" - Huh?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post-huh/931302 "2021-01-23T18:18:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post-huh/931302/8 "2021-01-23T23:43:25Z")

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I don’t know enough to know if these posts are related but in case they are, I’m linking them here.

> [@Photos - how the %&! are you posting them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-how-the-are-you-posting-them/918991/13):
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> Yeah, for those of you that figure this out, don’t do that. We’re not an image hosting site.

> [@Photos - how the %&! are you posting them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-how-the-are-you-posting-them/918991/32):
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> I don’t have access to the financial side of things here, but I imagine that having to pay for increased storage space and increased network bandwidth is going to be a hard sell to the folks with the purse strings. TubaDiva was opposed to having inline images at all. You should be happy that we are at least allowing them, even if we do require that the actual image hosting be done elsewhere.

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