First and foremost, I appreciate how patient and helpful you've been; thank you.
That's how I've been doing it for a while. Two years at least, as that's when I first bumped into the pictrs limitations. I'd done it before on other message boards but made full use of it since landing at Beehaw. As of yesterday it started giving me the album links instead when following the steps as you've outlined.
The alternative mentioned by Blaze and seconded by PenguinCoder does what I need very conveniently
An all around good egg, who often pops into threads just to be helpful.
Agreed. Most of what kept me using the service was familiarity and the behavioral inertia that brings, but making sharing to message boards difficult (even comparatively) is a deal breaker for me
The only url I'm able to get through the app is
https://imgur.com/a/7sSZfrH#fAh9k4C
Interesting. I made another attempt this morning but all the links are to the site and not directly to the image address
I attempted that, but the long press options don't include the "copy image address" for me. And yeah it seems like this latest update is really pushing the site so they can serve ads.
Self-hosting a service is not all that complicated, but requires some commitment.
Lol I run a small business and have a sleep disorder and a nine month old, any bandwidth I have is at a premium
That sounds wonderful, and is totally what it's all about!
Wholly agreed!
that IS easy enough even for me
I can't express how honored I feel seeing you reply, it's like a rite of passage
As an aside, imgur changed their url handling and my habit of using the i.imgur links to mirror here no longer works. Anyone got a recommendation for a luddite like myself?
Oof, yeah. I would be feeling the same way
[Image description: one white and tan buff orpington and two black and white barred rock chickens inspect my work in the raised bed/sunken pathways garden]
Dorothy, Sophia, and Lucille had fun helping me turn over the beds and made sure the compost and soil were well mixed
[Image description: a small bird I caught in the garage earlier and released outside]
I had opened the door for them but they went to the other side and started trying to go through a closed window, luckily they let me help them back outside
Edit: my friend who goes birding says it is probably a Phoebe, a group of insect eating birds
I think I need to split my tomatoes today.
What's growing on with you all?
Phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space edition
We've got thirty, maybe forty pots looking like this, with true leaves starting to appear on a bunch of the starts - only a few of the pots have any duplicate plantings. There's two pots of chamomile (pictured) and a few other herbs like sage and lavender.
We're also growing wheat for the first time, which is pretty exciting. I've done up a few dozen plugs for the bird yard, which will be fenced this first year to protect them til they go to seed, and have a row in the vegetable patch that I'm thinking of using for seed saving purposes. If anyone's grown grains before I'm interested to hear your wisdom.
What's growing on with you all?
[Image description: A picture of plants being hand watered with a caption that reads I make them planties wet. Mark this NSFWSP - Not safe for water sensitive plants
[Image description: a largish cardboard box containing around a hundred packets of vegetable seeds]
Our library is hosting a seed swap tomorrow and, well, we're friends with folks whose family runs a local business, where they have one of those vegetable seed stands on display. All it took was asking if they had any seeds they would like to donate for the event and seed library and they gave us scores of seeds. My wife and I organized them this evening and I'll be bringing them to the swap, then sticking whatever's left in the seed library.
I'm really excited about how many folks in our town this might provide some measure of relief and security - in addition to the seed swap attendees, the library also grows veggies in the plot out back for donation to the local food pantry and involves kids from the nearby schools for some of the garden projects.
If your library runs programs like this (or other local community support groups do), I'd really encourage you to volunteer even just calling some local spots for support or donations. Sometimes you get the chance to make an outsized difference.
[Image description: a photo of Lacinato kale seedlings germinating together in a pot]
I have more space to start plants this year, but it's still very worth it for us to conserve space where we can. To that end, we're starting several species in a "mob grow" style with many many seedlings in each pot rather than individual smaller cell trays. Once they're of a size for transplanting we'll be able to tease them all apart either for planting in the gardens or repotting for sales or donation.
h/t to Bobby over at Small Scale Permaculture (yt link) for convincing me to try this out with more species.
That's a bummer =/
Could you fence off the squash in some way? Maybe plant some sacrificial ones elsewhere while you protect the ones that are for you?