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Old May 1, 2020 | 08:53 AM
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Question Consistent errors when trying to upload photos into threads

I'll preface this with: the Acurazine gallery works the way it's supposed to. I'm able to upload photos there!

But with just random threads like the "photo's YOU recently took" and it's counterpart, I'm unable to add any photos to the threads. Directly uploading a photo to the thread gives an error. Uploading to Imgur and copy-pasting the link gives an error. Someone mentioned using Flickr so I just tried that and got the same error. Is this a problem on my end, or how do you add photos to threads? Thanks!

For reference the error I get with URL's is "Alert: Upload Error: Invalid URL"
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Old May 1, 2020 | 05:37 PM
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Sorry for the image uploading trouble. You mentioned that copy/pasting an image URL gives you the "invalid URL" error. Do you happen to recall the message you received when attempting to directly upload your photo? Can you also please let me know what device and browser you're using when the errors occur?

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Old May 3, 2020 | 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by IB Jason
Sorry for the image uploading trouble. You mentioned that copy/pasting an image URL gives you the "invalid URL" error. Do you happen to recall the message you received when attempting to directly upload your photo? Can you also please let me know what device and browser you're using when the errors occur?

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Thank you for the reply! I just attempted uploading an image to this thread and it simply said: "Alert. The image could not be uploaded". I wanted to see if it would give the same error with a JPG and (although it was a completely different file) the JPG uploaded fine. For reference the photo I've been trying to upload is a PNG file.
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Old May 4, 2020 | 12:51 PM
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Thanks for the details. Have other PNGs resulted in the same error or does it appear to isolated to just the one?
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Old May 4, 2020 | 01:12 PM
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Rather than upload to Imgur/Flickr, just upload directly from your computer by clicking the Upload button, and then Browse Your Device. It's been working for me for years now and stores it on AZ's servers rather than an external 3rd party to increase usage on AZ's servers prevent issues like when PhotoBucket decided to start charging for hotlinking and broke a bunch of threads
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Old May 4, 2020 | 02:07 PM
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Huh, it does appear to be isolated to that one PNG. It's a shame too, as it's a nice early morning shot of my car with the sun peaking through the trees behind it. Oh well.

Thanks for the help responses guys! I'll see if saving this photo differently tricks AZ into letting me upload it haha
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Old May 4, 2020 | 05:05 PM
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Happy to help! If you find other images are starting to give you the same trouble, please let us know.
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