Topic: Show image thumbnails

I understand the forums are trying to keep the bandwidth down and usable but I would still like to see a thumbnail to linked images.

Imgur seems to be the most popular site for hot linking images. They do have an option to show a thumbnail instead of loading the full image and then resizing on the fly.

Example, here is the full link to a screenshot https://i.imgur.com/AaJtqS8.jpg

Here is the same screenshot but with the link for the thumbnail, https://i.imgur.com/AaJtqS8t.jpg

If you don't see the second image, it only works when you put it in html. Clicking on it from there will then go to imgur for the full image like usual.

As you can see Imgur just add a "t" before the extension. Maybe this can be a built in feature to load a small thumb of posted images?

They also have "m" and "l" for medium and large thumbnails.

you need to copy the link
like this
https://imgur.com/AaJtqS8

edit: hm This should work.
This is how I've been posting images here.
example
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/forums/df-retro/retro_picks_an...

This is a test https://imgur.com/AaJtqS8

Yeah, doesn't seem to work.

Need to go old school and use "img" BBCode

Yeah, so old school img bbcode will work — Imgur is annoying though as you can no longer access Imgur in the UK (without a VPN), so not the best service to use!

What? Why doesn't it work in the UK?

Test

Ok I see. Yeah think the forums should just have an add image button and some text formatting.

@Brunuu we get a "Content not viewable in your region" for any Imgur post... I think it's a restriction to do with government-level rules that Imgur aren't keen to agree to.

Read more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo