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I want to share a script and I've made an animated GIF that shows what it does. My image is stored on Google Drive with a public link. When I put the link between img tags and preview the post, it says "Broken Link for safety" and does not show the image.

I have seen other posts on this site with animated gifs. Do those users have more rights than me? Is there a file size limit, or does the image need to be uploaded?? What is the a trick to making this work?

I will submit this post and see if the links below appear differently than in Preview mode.

Ben

@tank
Can you take a look at this?

seems to work when the link ends in ".gif"... doesn't seem like a permission issue, as I could not use your unbroken link either

https://i.ibb.co/NrsgTKf/2019-09-16-0-04-42-Access-Query-Design-AHK-gif.gif

It happens when you have less than 30 posts or so.

nnnik wrote: ↑

03 Oct 2019, 00:56

It happens when you have less than 30 posts or so.

That's the general broken link for safety thing, which is intentional. But you also need a certain link format to make it work.
For Ben, both limitations are probably true.

gwarble is right. For users with more (enough) posts, it does work with the direct link with gif-extension (which is on another service, not google drive), while the <img> tags don't work with the link format in the original post, even if it's unbroken: just "creates" :


But the google drive link above is just a link to some kind of "viewer" which limits access, and which seems to be the problem - instead of a "direct" link to a gif.
Not sure, if you could create a direct link on google drive that would work with our forum's <img>-tags, even if you wanted...

Well if its not a .gif but instead an html that you linked why do you expect it to work?

why the attitude? he’s new and asking a very simple question

maybe the “error” should read “not a valid image file” instead of “broken link for safety”

albeit nnnik made it clear for me ahah
Wasnt sure what this error was about... I didnt implement this safety feature. I could take a look if it's truly necessary, but I dont want to go poking around needlessly
I think a "invalid image" would be more helpful

??? I think that was merely pointing out where the flaw lied? I dont think I was rude or anything?

Simple misunderstanding here, no worries for anyone haha

So, what I think I'm hearing here is: 1) I need to have more posts, roughly 30. 2) I need to make sure the link is to a source where it is still a .GIF and now a link to a viewer (or whatever Google Drive gave me for my example). 3) Uploading an image may work instead of using a link, but I can't tell until I have more posts.

30 seems a bit high. Is that for attachments in general, or just animated GIFs?

nnnik wrote: ↑

04 Oct 2019, 03:53

Well if its not a .gif but instead an html that you linked why do you expect it to work?

I tried using it as an attachment, which didn't work, as well as a link to Google Drive, which I incorrectly assumed was a pointer to a file.

Picture attachments (image files from your computer's hard drive) should work for you already: Full Editor > Attachments > Add files > (optionally use 'place inline' to position images at the caret position instead of the end of the post)

Max 3 images per post... perhaps you currently can (are allowed to) even upload gifs this way, not sure.

Until this spring, rules were at lot more loose, but then a massive spam wave occured and current rules seem mostly ok now... they were necessary for sure... these images of headless corpses haven't been pure fun


Upload of a gif from my hd:

:/

Test uploading my GIF.

My GIF doesn't show the 'place inline' option, probably due to the size. As you saw in my last email, the attachment didn't show up at all, though there was no warning that it was too big, I was short on permissions, or anything. The Status was just a green bar. It stayed that way a few minutes.

I was able to 'place inline' and preview a .gif of a smaller size (98 kb). The Status showed a green circled check mark for this file.

It probably just failed to upload due to some issues with the network