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graydon ([personal profile] graydon) wrote in [personal profile] pameladean 2020-03-18 08:10 pm (UTC)

There are three steps!

While logged in, under the Organize menu select "Manage Images".

This takes you to page with a Bulk Edit Images title, and there are two important links at the top.

upload new images takes you to a page that lets you add images to your Dreamwidth storage.

You then probably want to refer to the Manage Images page to add metadata, particularly the part that sets who can see it, the Security dropdown. (If your posting default is private, for example, all your images get the default. So no one can see it unless you change the security on that image, but you can always see it, so reports of missing images may feel especially inexplicable.)

View all your images -- the other link at the top of the Manage Images page! -- takes you to a page that offers Image embed and Thumbnail Embed (and lets you select the thumbnail size); you can copy these little strings of HTML and stick it in a post you're composing to add the image.

This awkwardly manual but it's also challenging to automate so spammers mostly don't bother. And it does work.

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