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Poly Hive:
Sorry Mrs P no longer seems to work. That icon is no longer there that I can find.

Feanor:
Here it is...


Flickr_Share by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Click it, and select BBcode in the list of options.
Select Medium in the drop-down.
Click in the box of text which contans the generated BBcode,it will turn blue.
Press Ctrl-C to copy the highlighted text.
Thusly:


Flickr_Share1 by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Click into your post on yacf, and press ctrl-V to paste the BBcode into your post.
This will post something like this into your message:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/PUtSQ3][img]https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1941/31442664898_0e90d4a5bb_z.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/PUtSQ3]Flickr_Share1[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/]Ron Lowe[/url], on Flickr

The forum code will automagically parse that out and display the image.

Poly Hive:
Many many thanks. That is an excellent explanation.

PH

andrew_s:
I use Dropbox since Photobucket went pear shaped

1. right-click on the image file in Dropbox and "copy Dropbox link"

2. Paste into your post as
https://www.dropbox.com/s/omvf8xri1n5ztwe/0_bike_ride_map.jpg?dl=0

3. Either change "www" to "dl" OR change "dl=0" to "raw=1"
(Dropbox only)

4. Highlight the whole link and click the "Insert image" button

This gives something like this:
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/omvf8xri1n5ztwe/0_bike_ride_map.jpg?dl=0[/img]

which shows in the post as:

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