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Originally Posted by geekmaster
As you can see, the post above this has a big block of image thumbnails taking up more visual space than a forbiddenly-large signature. In addition, the thumbnails hide detail important to the post, and therefore serve no useful purpose here. If I wanted thumbnails, I would have embedded them in my post, with links to much larger images.
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FWIW, I prefer the attached-to-post form of image uploading, but you can also use the paperclip icon in the advanced editor to embed the attached image inline in the post body.
In that case, it will
move the thumbnail from the block at the bottom, to inline.
You still have to click on it to see the full-size image, but 1) some people prefer it that way (I do) and 2) the forum software will take care of resizing the thumbnail and thus immunize you against the image guidelines for size.
You *could* rely on imgur probably being around forever, or at least until the Wayback Machine archives it. The Wayback Machine does archive MobileRead IIRC.
What to do, what to do...
It is a Pick Your Poison scenario, I guess.
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As you have concluded regarding broken image tags, so I had believed myself.
Based on my own haphazard experience, I found the image tag works fine UNLESS it is used to embed a MR album image (in which case they
usually worked, unless you aren't logged in in which case they NEVER worked).
knc1's discovery that the advanced editor loads necessary javascript which fixes logged-in-album-image issues is something I certainly never noticed.
Generally I can say I have used the advanced post editor at least once...