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dreamshark ([personal profile] dreamshark) wrote in [personal profile] pameladean 2021-01-23 05:17 pm (UTC)

I have no expectation that DW will provide me with a fancy image hosting service. I just want to be able to embed an image from ANYWHERE (an external site, Google Photos, their primitive image hosting depository, ANYWHERE) without having to be fluent in HTML. I just want the fracking "image" icon in their RTF editing tool to work. I have never gotten it to do anything at all except insert a tiny, non-working bluish square, that I gather is supposed to be a link to something? If you know how to make their "clever" solution work, please enlighten me and Pamela and the other WYSIWYG dunderheads that are trying to post pictures here.]

Weirdly enough, the one method that does work for me is "post image by email." It has many limitations and is frequently broken, but it does give me a way to post images from my iPhone that actually end up embedded in the post instead of just a link. I have not found a way to do that with photos that are already online somewhere.

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