Questions/Issues/Wishlists for BFP

[Chancie]

I am thrilled that I can upload images to my gallery from my iPhone, but

I can't figure out how to edit them.

Tiny Elvis is adorable, but I forgot to name the other one, and,

The picture is on its side.

Any suggestions?

[Kelt]

I am having no problems with anything but I do have a question. I have noticed the revised notice about TOS at the top of the fluff threads and the new statement:

"Also, when posting pictures please be sure that they are from reputable websites (e.g., instagram, photobucket, flickr, tinypic, imageshack, etc.). Avoid posting pictures from sites like Gagful and others"

Makes sense, we all need to protect the site. Here is my conundrum; when posting personal pics they come from either my computer or photobucket, easy enough. However, sometimes when I am looking for an illustrative or fun image I will go out into google images. When I find what I am looking for and go to copy the image address, I notice the size is too large to be used as is. What I do then is to go to the 'more sizes' link provided by google which then brings up a page of the same images in different sizes. (In fact I recommended this in the 'members helping members' thread to help with the huge images issue) Now, from there, I copy the image address of the size I want. I am not necessarily familiar with whatever site name it is coming from, and they are frequently in a foreign language. E.g. a place like "gagful" would not set off an alarm with me as I have no idea what it is, (still don't), is there some way recommended to avoid the potential inadvertent error?

Given that I do not post particularly edgy pictures this may never be an issue for me, but I am curious.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Kelt

I am having no problems with anything but I do have a question. I have noticed the revised notice about TOS at the top of the fluff threads and the new statement:

"Also, when posting pictures please be sure that they are from reputable websites (e.g., instagram, photobucket, flickr, tinypic, imageshack, etc.). Avoid posting pictures from sites like Gagful and others"

Makes sense, we all need to protect the site. Here is my conundrum; when posting personal pics they come from either my computer or photobucket, easy enough. However, sometimes when I am looking for an illustrative or fun image I will go out into google images. When I find what I am looking for and go to copy the image address, I notice the size is too large to be used as is. What I do then is to go to the 'more sizes' link provided by google which then brings up a page of the same images in different sizes. (In fact I recommended this in the 'members helping members' thread to help with the huge images issue) Now, from there, I copy the image address of the size I want. I am not necessarily familiar with whatever site name it is coming from, and they are frequently in a foreign language. E.g. a place like "gagful" would not set off an alarm with me as I have no idea what it is, (still don't), is there some way recommended to avoid the potential inadvertent error?

Given that I do not post particularly edgy pictures this may never be an issue for me, but I am curious.

Your browser, Firefox especially, will likely give you a warning about "questionable sites". It looks something like below:



Now the challenge is when you've disabled this feature (I have and I try to make sure that photos I post are from sites I know of and regularly visit without issue).

[Kelt]

Originally Posted by Linus

Your browser, Firefox especially, will likely give you a warning about "questionable sites". It looks something like below:



Now the challenge is when you've disabled this feature (I have and I try to make sure that photos I post are from sites I know of and regularly visit without issue).

I have a similar feature enabled in my Safari browser to block fraudulent sites. The thing I am thinking of is when I do not go to the site at all. In google image searches specifically, when I mouse over the image I can see the name in the link, but never actually go there. I just 'copy image address' and paste it into the IMG field within the insert image function here.

Since I have never been to the site of origin and frequently have never heard of it....? I am thinking that I am not the only one that will search for things we just want a picture of without going to every site. I hope this makes sense.

[aishah]

question about ignoring threads - is there any way to make it so that threads you ignore don't show up in the "recent discussions" section of the front page? that tempts me to go read them. i like to just pretend they don't exist.

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by aishah

question about ignoring threads - is there any way to make it so that threads you ignore don't show up in the "recent discussions" section of the front page? that tempts me to go read them. i like to just pretend they don't exist.

Unfortunately not at this time. There is some kind of bug with that mod and it won't take the ignored threads out of the module that makes the "recent" section.
Hopefully, we will be upgrading the site fairly soon and will be able to find a mod that works much better than the current one.

(and kudos for self-care!)

[Smiling]

I wonder if there is some kind of mod that would enable the arcade to work on iPads (or is it a Flash issue and not doable)?

I thought I'd ask [because what I really need instead of being productive is to spend more time playing games on the Internet, lmao].

At any rate, if it hasn't already been mentioned, I'm sure I'm not the only iPad user looking to kill some time in the arcade.

Thanks for listening!