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usonian

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4. I am going to guess, based on my recent painful experience (like this morning)
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 02:35 PM
Dec 24

You may have run across a "webp" image that DU cannot render.
I posted one (ran preview on it) and that's when I discovered that it wasn't a jpeg, or png or gif.

It has to be converted first. I can expand on that if this is your case.

Yes, if you pull stuff off the web, it might be a webp format (see above) OR the link may be un-parseable by DU's software code.

When these happen, I save the image to computer disk, convert it if necessary, and then post it to an image host that is DESIGNED to create useful links for social media.

On the phone, the process is truly bizarre, but I can explain. Vastly easier to do on a computer.

Much good luck. Ask and the experts here are glad to help.

We have seen and tried it all and don't want others to run into brick walls!!!

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