When I view your post, which apparently includes a link to the image, I see this:

https://postimg.cc/4YRpwDfK]

I see the image in your post. BUT when I view my own post, sharing the image, I see this:

https://postimg.cc/FYb36TzT]

I don't see the image, I only see the links to the image.

Is this normal? Is this just how DU works, when you share links to your own images you don't see the images in your own post, you only see the links, but everyone else sees the images?

Thanks for your help, I'm just trying to figure out how this works!

Let us know how to do it when you figure it out.

...it gives me 8 different links (URLs). I was selecting/copying Link, but when I select/copy Direct Link, I can see the images in my own posts!

Choose the 2nd option, direct link, copy and paste in your post

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direct link as instructed


Yeah, his head was bigger than a basketball and that (under his paw) was the largest Kong toy made at the time.

I'll use Direct Link here:



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...THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!!!

Also when you paste your direct link, make sure it ends in jpg
If it doesn’t, erase png or whatever and type in jpg


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Here's a png (not a photograph, of course) :

Or 2, or 3, or... whatever.

Direct link ends in jpg



As such


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[link] is for rendering a link as a line of clickable text, and [img] tags and most other bracketed tags are not recognized as tags on this board, so they're just copied to the output. You just want a plain URL to a graphics format file.

On Flickr, there is an option to generate a "BBcode" link. It includes a bunch of tags that don't work here, but it is the only option that includes a direct URL to an image file, so you can copy and paste just that URL (or copy and paste everything, then delete everything except the URL), and it will work fine here. (There are also URLs to Flickr pages in the generated code, so make sure you just get the URL for the .jpg file.)

Good to know I can just paste the link & not mess with the DU "link /link" button. Makes it easier.