Not a deal breaker but still frustrating

[brigid]

I wrote this before investigating further and Dreamwidth DOES have photo hosting and it's amazing and I love it.

I understand why Dreamwidth doesn't host photos but it's still frustrating that I have to host photos someplace else before being able to include them in a post. It stops me from posting a lot of things I otherwise would.

I have a huge amount of Covid related memes that I'd really like to post with explanations were useful. I'd have to find a home for them all, though, and I'm lazy. I really am.

I'd also like to be able to easily upload photos of myself in cute outfits. It's so easy on twitter, for instance. I just select it and upload it straight from my phone.

Twitter, of course, has advertising. And Elon Musk. Two things that Dreamwidth doesn't have.

I'll take the mild inconvenience over that.

Comments

[melannen]

Dreamwidth does host photos now!

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=248

Not as easy to use as newer apps, but you don't need outside hosting anymore.

Hosting Pictures On Dreamwidth

[frith]

Here is my adventure using Dreamwidth's in-house picture host: https://frith.dreamwidth.org/221374.html

[naye]

I find Imgur more convenient than Dreamwidth's own image hosting. I have installed a browser add on where one right-click option for images is "re-host on Imgur" (it's free!), and then the picture ends up in another tab where I can click the "copy link" thing. The last step is using either HTML or the Rich Text Editor to get the images to not be huge (if they were originally huge). Otherwise an option is to screenshot images (might make the quality worse, but always makes the size smaller), and then that too has an "Upload to Imgur" option in the menu.

Let me know if a visual guide would be helpful! I agree that it's a pity it's so hard to use images with Dreamwidth.