Posting a picture / image on this forum

Hello everyone.

So kind of a dumb question but...how do you post an image on this forum ?

I've been trying to show my character card in my signature or posting a picture of my character in the "Show your Miqo'te" using the "insert image" button but they never seem to appear and I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Here I'm trying to post my character card but the preview gives nothing :

http://hpics.li/ed649cd

I tried to look for a thread that would help me on this matter but came up with nothing unfortunately.
If there is a thread like this that already exists then I apologize in advance for not looking long enough (also I didn't know where to create this thread. I though that the New Player Help section would be the best place.)

It looks like the image you want to post needs to be uploaded to a web server; you cannot upload it directly from your computer to the forums. So if the "character card" you speak of is a file on your own computer, you'll need to upload it somewhere first. If it's already online somewhere, then giving us the URL will be a good start.

You can also use the Lodestone's blog feature to upload an image that you can then use on the forums:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/my/blog/post/

I uploaded it first on a website called hosting pics (which is french) and copy-pasted the link in order to post the picture. But to make things easier I uploaded on imgur, here's the link : https://imgur.com/a/LsRlk

But I'll try the blog features. I've been playing the game for 2 years but I'm not very familiar with the forum and the blog yet.

Anyway thank you for your help :D

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...ed5401b3d5.png

EDIT : Using the blog features helped me greatly. Thank you again for you help !

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Originally Posted by AxHell

I uploaded on imgur, here's the link : https://imgur.com/a/LsRlk

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You can display the image directly to the forums by using the "direct link" inside of IMG tags instead of URL tags.

When displaying a particularly large image (a full screen capture, for example) some people like to use HB tags (hide box) to hide it (also useful for spoilers).

like so:

Hidden box

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Originally Posted by Rongway

You can display the image directly to the forums by using the "direct link" inside of IMG tags instead of URL tags.

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But that's the thing. When I try to use the IMG tags with the link from imgur (or from other websites) it doesn't work. But when I use it with the link from the lodestone blog...it works.

I guess I'll have to use the draft I created in my blog from now on.

Thank you for your help :)

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Originally Posted by AxHell

But that's the thing. When I try to use the IMG tags with the link from imgur (or from other websites) it doesn't work. But when I use it with the link from the lodestone blog...it works.

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From Imgur, use the "Direct link" instead of the image link. It's of the form http://i.imgur.com/FILE.png instead of http://imgur.com/FILE

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Originally Posted by Rongway

From Imgur, use the "Direct link" instead of the image link. It's of the form http://i.imgur.com/FILE.png instead of http://imgur.com/FILE

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Found it. I never knew about it. Again, thank you very much :D. Hope you have a nice day !

Yeah, looks like https://discord.gg/uG7tWDd is a web page that contains the picture (which you don't actually want to embed here), whereas https://i.imgur.com/JETh0i3.png is the actual image. (I just right clicked the image on the first page and selected "Copy image address.")

Hey guys I new in game

Aww, he's very cute! I love how the tiny Nanamo is sitting on his shoulder while he pours over his tome.

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Originally Posted by EveK

You can also use the Lodestone's blog feature to upload an image that you can then use on the forums:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/my/blog/post/

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There's also a direct image upload here:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/my/image