Album feature not available, why?

[justaguy168]

In the forum's FAQ it says:

As a member, you can create Albums of images that are linked to your public profile. Albums can be created by visiting the User Control Panel, and clicking on the 'Pictures & Albums' link, and then clicking on 'Add Album'.

However when I go into my user control panel, the 'Add Album' link is not there. Has this feature been disabled?

Please assist.

~ Ken

 

[allisolm]

That feature is not enabled here. I don't know for sure why, but a couple of things come to mind. Storage issues and the lack of willingness to check pics for suitability.

 

[justaguy168]

Allisolm, thank you for the fast reply.


That makes sense. On one of the forums I would like to show a recent build. There are 20 pictures of about 175K each. I have a short sentence or two about each picture. In my posting I linked to a Flickr photostream, but in a month or so, I'll take that down.

1. How do folks on this forum show pictures?
2. Is there a way to store these photos on the anandtech itself?
3. Do people use the "insert image" feature of the message toolbar for this?
4. Is it ok to submit a thread with 20 x 175K pictures?

Trying to be a good forum citizen.

~ Ken

 

[TonyH]

Allisolm, thank you for the fast reply.


That makes sense. On one of the forums I would like to show a recent build. There are 20 pictures of about 175K each. I have a short sentence or two about each picture. In my posting I linked to a Flickr photostream, but in a month or so, I'll take that down.

1. How do folks on this forum show pictures?
2. Is there a way to store these photos on the anandtech itself?
3. Do people use the "insert image" feature of the message toolbar for this?
4. Is it ok to submit a thread with 20 x 175K pictures?

Trying to be a good forum citizen.

~ Ken

1. You will have to store the pictures off site and link to them using the image tags.
2. No
3. Yes.
4. I would suggest resizing the pictures and if needed linking to the full size pics off site.