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[MaxImageSize addon] How do you embed an image to begin with?
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< img src="http://www.vanillaforums.org/themes/vforg/design/images/sprites.png" />
< img src="http://www.vanillaforums.org/themes/vforg/design/images/sprites.png" />
A very useful addition to Vanilla 2 in this respect would be an input filter plugin (as Drupal has) so that allowed input can be set by User Role. Eg., Member; plain text only with {b}, {i}, {a}, and Admin; full html.
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Vanilla Forums COO [GitHub, Twitter, About.me]
The key point about it all, I think, is that those of us who are used to forums and posting don't find inserting a bit of html difficult, while a huge number of site users don't have a clue (and shouldn't need to). They want to just insert a link - complicated enough for them - and see the image or video 'inserted' as they wish.
I find basic embedding works ok. Fine as it is for what I want so far.
So far (as you know), I haven't gotten a single one of the WYSIWYG editors to fully function on Vanilla 2 in all browsers. Even in Vanilla 1, it was always a pain to get those to work. I know WYSIWYG editing is tangential to this discussion, but I think it's the same general problem of making the forums accessible.
I don't understand how that was overlooked in Vanilla 2 when it was (in my opinion) one of the major drawbacks of Vanilla 1. Modern forum software should have a WYSIWYG editor at the very least. Not having it is a major barrier of entry for your basic forum users.
So far, Vanilla has taken a lot of design and functionality cues from Twitter but I think the team should learn a lot from Tumblr too (it's the fastest growing social network right now next to Facebook).
Food for thought @Tim
It would be a lot more interesting if different Vanilla forums could connect to each other somehow... the days of massively large "general topic" forums are gone... the next wave of forums will be very niche based so being able to connect amongst them (like tumblr) will be key.
Totally agree - I don't want to train each forum member on how to embed an image in their posts.
The [IMG] [/IMG] codes should (must) work.
Is there a plugin that has been made available recently for this to work?