Upcoming improvements to uploading images

ianmorland

Over on our preview site, we've just upgraded the extension that is responsible for handling the upload of images and videos to the community.

A rundown of the upcoming changes can be found here.

Note: this change is only on the preview site at the moment, it will make it's way over here in due course 🙂

Remember to bookmark the preview site, as you'll always get a heads up on new features and changes before they roll out here!

Edit: This change is now live

bluemoonbaz

Cheers Ian great to all these improvements
ianmorland

isabel1066

ianmorland Thank You for all the improvements you and the team are doing.

allan1954

ianmorland keep up the good work.

davidevans0000

ianmorland thanks for the new improvements.

yvonnearmstrong

ianmorland

Again thanks Ian💟

peterhall0012

ianmorland well done

shabazmoqsud

ianmorland thats awesome and i did as suggested preview site has been bookmarked so i can easily check for improvements made by you and rest of giffgaff team.

pw6049

ianmorland thanks

garybo

ianmorland thanks Ian

sha_shah1

ianmorland

dtuxcomp

ianmorland Just tried it out and left a post in the thread.

kathleen414

Fab news Ian 🧡🤗🧡

persco

@ianmorland Thanks For the update. Going to check it out 👍🏽

formulaone

Awesomeness! 🙂

holly45992

great thanks

anth006

Very nice. Just hope to see some changes on the main site soon.

ianmorland

Hey folks,

Just a quick note to say that this change is now live on the community. 🙂

endorphin

ianmorland just to say that the new icon does not have any hint text when you hover over it! 😉

ianmorland

endorphin just to say that the new icon does not have any hint text when you hover over it

Yep, this has been addressed and will be deployed on Monday during our upgrade of the best answers plugin.

This is down to the change being required in the main theme files, which have already been updated for the best answer update, therefore we cannot roll them out until then.

endorphin

ianmorland fair enuf! BTW do we need to keep the old "Add an image" widget too?

ianmorland

endorphin we've made a change to that (again for Monday).

By changing the copy, we hope to make it clearer that the button is for linking to an off-site image URL, rather than an uploaded one.