Forum Questions -- Subscriptions and Images

Fallen London
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I’m a newbie (only been playing about 2-3 weeks now), and although I’ve been searching online for answers to questions, that hasn’t panned out all the time, so I’ve posted a couple of questions here on the forum, which brings me to my two questions:

(1) I can’t figure out how to subscribe to a topic/see if my questions have been answered. The FAQ (https://community.failbettergames.com/faq.aspx#f81) says:

How do I subscribe to specific forums or topics?
–To subscribe to a specific forum, click the &quotwatch this forum for new topics&quot link upon entering the forum. To subscribe to a topic, reply to the topic with the subscribe checkbox checked or click the &quotwatch this topic for replies&quot link within the topic itself.Top

How do I remove my subscriptions?
–To remove your subscriptions, go to your profile (by clicking your username on the top) and click &quotMy subscriptions&quot

Which is all well and good, except…at least in my version of the forum (viewed on Firefox/Windows 10), there is no &quotwatch this forum for new topics&quot link, no &quotsubscribe&quot check boxes anywhere (I tried &quotreplying&quot to messages in about 3-4 different topics, and never found any &quotsubscribe&quot check boxes), and my profile doesn’t contain a &quotMy Subscriptions&quot link. Are these things hidden somewhere?

(2) I’ve seen people embed screenshots/images in their posts, and can’t figure out a way to do it. I’m a frequent poster on the Board Game Geek forums, which have a similar interface, and there inserting images is easy; in fact you can upload them directly from your desktop. This interface apparently requires some sort of HTML link, but these are the results I get when using the link I obtained from Google Drive, using the following forum interface buttons:

&quotHyperlink,&quot.…
<a href=&quot&quot>

(This actually seemed the most promising – in the &quotpreview&quot version of the post I could actually see the image. But when I hit &quotAdd Message&quot (post/send/finalize, etc.), all I got was the text above.)

&quotImage,&quot

&quotHTML&quot (i.e., I actually switched to HTML mode and inserted the following code. It just comes back as text, though:)
<iframe src=&quothttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1b4FwQTp6XejS8E5EO28oMq2QOuQUHqyq/preview&quot width=&quot640&quot height=&quot480&quot></iframe>

Does anybody have any tips for inserting an image stored on Google Drive?

Thank you!
edited by robb8888 on 7/24/2020

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Hello and welcome!

(1) Subscriptions to fora and topics aren’t enabled here, I’m afraid. To see when a topic gets replies, it’s easiest to use the &quotRecent Topics&quot or &quotRecent Posts&quot pages.

(2) To post an image, it has to be hosted somewhere where you can access the image link directly - i.e., the link ends in the image’s file format (.png, .gif, etc.) Imgur offers free image hosting if you need somewhere to upload things to!

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That link isn’t an image, it’s a web page that shows an image, a button I can click to view the image in Google Drive (isn’t that what I was doing? Whatever, Google.), and who knows what else.