Embedding Photos/Videos (and other media) on the forum just got a major facelift

[cleary]

That's really good news. Now I better go get another photo site.

Q: there is no facility to upload a pic from an iPhone / iPad photos app?

It depends entirely on the photo service you choose as to whether they supply that or not. All that we're doing here is displaying the (supported) content in a post better

[bassmaniac69]

Test Got a new snow foam lance for my bithday

[cleary]

Test Got a new snow foam lance for my bithday

Successful test

Nice speed foam markings on that lancer

[bassmaniac69]

Hahah, she's built for comfort and lugging gear, not speed!!

[raybass]

FWIW - I posted via photobucket the old fashioned way on Saturday without any issues.

[cleary]

FWIW - I posted via photobucket the old fashioned way on Saturday without any issues.

The old photobucket way will continue to work, until you reach whatever quota they've set for 3rd party site embedding.
If you use it infrequently, you'll be fine - if you use it frequently, and across many forums (as many guys here do) then you'll not be having a good time

[Phatbass]

Is there anyway of inserting from Instagram with JUST the pic and not all the other fluff, links to my Instagram, etc?

[cleary]

Is there anyway of inserting from Instagram with JUST the pic and not all the other fluff, links to my Instagram, etc?

In short, no - instagram doesn't do "direct linking" to the images via the plugin that we are using.

If you want to do direct linking, you'll need to use a service that offers that explicitly (flickr, imgur, tinypic do in their free tiers, personally I use smugmug but it's a paid service)

Hope that helps -