How to add image via url? (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by McBinary@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Does the option to add an image via URL not work? I have tried in both Brave and Firefox desktop browsers and the Brave mobile app - clicking the "From URL" or "Upload File" doesn't appear to do anything.

The only thing that does anything from this menu is clicking the filepath to upload a file from local.

Am I missing something?

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[-] ernest@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I didn't manage to do it in time, but it will be implemented soon.

[-] McBinary@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, awesome. I just wanted to confirm that it wasn't just me not able to do it. 😆

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Could we also add the pasting of image files themselves (ctrl + v)? I don't really want to physically save a screenshot first to be able to share it.

[-] herpderpedia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You can click on upload and then paste the URL of the image in. It will basically save the image to kbin and use that as the post.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Clicking on Upload file does nothing at this moment and I'm talking about pasting of actual image files, not of URLs. Like me doing a screenshot? That just sits in the clipboard for the moment. I want to be able to paste that straight into an upload without having to either save it or use a third party image hoster first.

[-] herpderpedia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ah. I see what you're talking about. Yeah I don't have a way to do that. It'll be nice when that functionality is built out.

What I was referring to is when you click "Choose File..." you can paste an image URL in that and it will work as if you selected a file from your computer.

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You might want to do some cleanup; this got reposted a bunch.

But to answer the question, I don't believe that works yet.

[-] McBinary@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. Got a ton of errors... It happens a lot here. I deleted all but 1.

"We are working on resolving the issues
Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure. Temporary problems with the website's functionality may occur during this time."

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's been doing that to me lately, too. Hopefully that gets resolved soon!

[-] ernest@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Hey, yep we are actively working on it. Some errors are difficult to reproduce and only become apparent on a larger scale. After the first release, it should be significantly better.

[-] McBinary@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for being so diligent @ernest!

[-] 0xtero@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That part of the UI is not ready yet and it's buggy (uploading from file doesn't show preview).
You can add an link to an image with the image icon in the composer

[-] McBinary@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I dunno, but it seems like this ought to be a pretty high priority, as hosting all the images locally is going to get exponentially more expensive as more people come to kbin... Being able to use a web image host is a much easier option.

[-] 0xtero@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, maybe.
There's currently 414 open issues in the tracker and 61 PRs to review and possibly merge. Pretty sure ernest will get to it eventually, but it's probably worth to remember the project is still in prototype phase and all work being done is purely on voluntary basis.

[-] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another possibility I was thinking about last night is when federated servers obtain local copies of comments that reference images, if the server enables the option to do so, also replicating the image and causing users viewing the comment via that server to use that instance's copy of the image.

That does mean that keeping the original comment text and maybe signature on the image around might be necessary if pubkey signing of comments or something comes into play later -- so it's a design decision that might have some long-running effects.

Given that serving images might be a significant chunk of the bandwidth that kbin instances use, it has implications for where costs lie -- on the instance where the community lives, or on the instance that has the users -- so it might be worth careful consideration.

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

For lemmy its ![](https://i.postimg.cc/J4cvhPsm/e783e003-9831-48be-aa7a-397e366e1c64.jpg)

Example

Does it display on kbin as well?

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The first link does not work but the second one does (including embedding).

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I mean thats how you write, when you put \ in between the formating ignorings it but the symbol itself wont be shown

Its the same, i just made breaks into the first one to show how its done.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not entirely sure what you're doing with the formatting for a basic link, but here's how the comment looks on kbin.

[-] herpderpedia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You can paste an image URL in the file upload and it will save the image to kbin and post that. Not the same thing you're looking for but it's a workaround.

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