Linked images dont always show up for some people ?

Squeezer

Quite a few times recently I find that when I embed a photo into a post in a PHPBB forum there are some people that see nothing.

Of course I can see the images if I am using a Browser that is set to login into my Smugmug page.

Ive taken to copying another copy of the image to a seperate website and linking to that image rather than to Smugmug.

Sometimes I get reports that the image isnt visable when I post it but then get feedback maybe a day later that the end user can now see it which is really odd.

Example in case is this post I just made
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=868184

Ive left the original code in also so if you see 4 images ( 2 duplicates ) then that is good. If you only see a total of 2 images then you are just seeing a Link to the other static webhost versions.

Why is it so ?

I tried looking at the link through Google Chrome Not logged in at all and with Chrome I only currently see the static webhost versions

If I manually go direct to the image on Smugmug first then when I go the forum link then it all works "properly"

Allen

Squeezer wrote:

Quite a few times recently I find that when I embed a photo into a post in a PHPBB forum there are some people that see nothing.

Of course I can see the images if I am using a Browser that is set to login into my Smugmug page.

Ive taken to copying another copy of the image to a seperate website and linking to that image rather than to Smugmug.

Sometimes I get reports that the image isnt visable when I post it but then get feedback maybe a day later that the end user can now see it which is really odd.

Example in case is this post I just made
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=868184

Ive left the original code in also so if you see 4 images ( 2 duplicates ) then that is good. If you only see a total of 2 images then you are just seeing a Link to the other static webhost versions.

Why is it so ?

I tried looking at the link through Google Chrome Not logged in at all and with Chrome I only currently see the static webhost versions

If I manually go direct to the image on Smugmug first then when I go the forum link then it all works "properly"

You are not using a correct photo link.

<img src="http://craftypics.smugmug.com/Light-painting-and-long/Sparkler-Painting/IMG9989/847887737_R2pHT-L.jpg" alt="" border="0">

try this instead

<img src="http://craftypics.smugmug.com/photos/847887737_R2pHT-L.jpg" alt="" border="0" />

Squeezer

Allen wrote:

try this instead

<img src="http://craftypics.smugmug.com/photos/847887737_R2pHT-L.jpg" alt="" border="0" />

That was even worse. If I pasted that Direct in a Browser it worked fine, but in PHPBB with the IMG tags it showed nothing

BTW I have removed the duplicate image paths now and just put a Hyperlink entry to the alternate images

Andy

You have external links set to 'no' which expressly tells us not to serve up that image on a forum or other non-SmugMug place

http://craftypics.smugmug.com/gallery/settings.mg?AlbumID=11720625&AlbumKey=oF7AZ

change it to yes, and all will be well.

Squeezer

Andy wrote:

You have external links set to 'no' which expressly tells us not to serve up that image on a forum or other non-SmugMug place

http://craftypics.smugmug.com/gallery/settings.mg?AlbumID=11720625&AlbumKey=oF7AZ

change it to yes, and all will be well.

Thanks Andy - Very wierd as I have never to my recollection set external links to No for any gallery - I'll see how it goes now.