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Cohost Tip! Post Webcomics and Art!

Did you know you can post more than 4 images in one post?

  • Once you finish uploading the first 4 images in your series save the post as a draft. This will upload the images and make them have image URLs tied to cohost.
  • Edit your draft post and copy the image URLs and post them to the body of your post by typing ![alt text here](image URL here)
  • you can now safely delete the 4 uploaded images and upload 4 more.
  • save to drafts, rinse and repeat.
  • if you wish to have your images the full width of the post as they appear when uploaded by default one at a time here's some CSS that I stole from @twilight-sparkle a few months back (edit: who stole it from @blackle, another great CSS poster) <div style="margin-left: -0.75rem; margin-right: -0.75rem;"><img src="image URL here" alt="Alt text here" style="width: 100%;"></div>

CSS allows for almost limitless formatting possibilities! However you want your work to be displayed you can make it happen!

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armaina
@armaina

Is there any guarantee that the images will actually remain on the server? How do you know they won't disappear with the next round of house cleaning? That seems incredibly ineffective for CoHost to just keep every single image ever uploaded to a draft (not to mention a potential concern regarding the privacy for those that delete their drafts and posts and don't want those images to stay on the server)

This doesn't sound like a stable means of keeping images on the service and very likely to completely fall apart with a few updates.

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cottondpad
@cottondpad

Came here to say this. This screams "undefined behavior" to me, and without express support from the developers those pictures may disappear at any moment. If they only mark for deletion pictures that are not linked in any post then it should be all right, but if we don't know then we can't be sure of what will happen.

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Co-host-Tips
@Co-host-Tips

I can't find the original post so I may misremember but originally I was using a 3rd party to link the images. jae(citation needed) recommended this method so the images would be more secure.

If it does ever break it will likely be after the planned implementation of adding images inline easier. at which point it will only take a few minutes to edit in a fix.

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armaina
@armaina

that is very concerning, considering there is no clause that I can find in their TOS that goes over how deleted content is managed and or if you have the ability to remove it from the server. A user may reasonably believe that something posted in drafts and then deleted later is gone for good, and if it is not, that should be informed to the users.

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armaina
@armaina

Using a third party with https is perfectly fine and more stable because that's the whole point of those services. You can use Squidge, NickPic, imgbox, or even imgur, they are all better options than this method.

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