(Upon review, if folks think this is worthwhile, maybe move it to the 'how do I' section rather than here under "Congrats"... which are richly deserved, by the way.)
First test post.
View media item 1
When it posts, it's just a link with no thumbnail image. Image taken from "Your Media" that I uploaded this morning... To do it, I clicked the "camera" icon which says "Media Gallery Embed" You end up viewing it in the Media section of the site.
Next test:
For that one above, I inserted as "Image" using the landscape icon. Somewhat larger than thumbnail-sized posting, but not 'clickable' for full-size image.
Next tried to embed media, but this site is not allowed as a source site. Probably meant for videos, though.
Here's a winner:
On the above attempt, I clicked "more options" down below (I was in Edit mode) and uploaded a file by selection from my desktop, then clicked 'thumbnail' button in the upload dialog, then either save or upload (don't remember). The code looks like this: {ATTACH}8498{/ATTACH} except with square brackets instead of curly. (There's likely a way to do this directly, while not being in edit mode...)
Now I'll try one like above, but without thumbnail, just the photo...
Well, that's pretty huge.
The code only differs in that it says {ATTACH=full} in the first bit, with square brackets, of course. I chose a different photo because the dialog window was offering both the new and old upload of the same photo, and I didn't want to confuse the matter...
Now for a drag-and-drop trial:
Yup, seems to work as the two examples above. Just dragged the file icon to the edit window, and image shows up as thumbnail. Not a link; not clickable.
So, wait a minute. Literally. In the time it took to write the 'doesn't work' screed below, it began working. Don't know if that's because of multiple saves of edits, or it takes a bit for the database to catch up, or whatever. But in both cases, the thumbnail is now clickable as a link. When your mouse hovers over it, a drop-shadow appears, and it overlays the full-size image when you click on it. So all is good, operationally, but not retro-actively for Jay's posts.
It might be that you have to wait for some background process to happen.
The bracketed stuff below can probably be disregarded, in light of the above developments...
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Went back into this image, and saved the link of the thumbnail above. It is this:
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It is clickable within the site, but resolves to the thumbnail-size image.
So getting it to work "the way it used to" for you, with clickable thumbnails, seems like it's something the end-user can't make happen... unless I've missed something. You can manually put a link right next to the thumbnail, but making the thumbnail the link itself looks like something I can't do.
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I didn't do any manual re-sizing for these images, except for the head-on shot which was the source for my avatar. It looks like it's 'taken care of' by the site's import mechanism, which is a welcome thing. They're all big/hi-res shots.
Jay, I tried to get back to your example, but site won't let me go there... Maybe you have to find the new 'label' for your original uploaded photos, or maybe the 'database' needs to find/index them. Guessing here... I'd give it a day to see if it adjusts itself.
The upshot is:
The upload file option gives you the choice of saving directly as a thumbnail, or directly as a "full-size" image; both are clickable links.
Clicking on thumbnail when uploading displays the full-size image.
Clicking on "full-size" when uploading displays a fuller-size image.
Haven't looked at the size difference, but there might be a limit for within-threads that doesn't exist as a straight upload. I know when I click on the head-on shot of the green Alpine, the image gets slightly larger.
I wonder if the link-only, clickable-thumbnail, and clickable-full-size impact your storage quota differently, if the base image is the same. Or if pictures within links even have that quota. Could be the quota is for your Albums and Media only. Hmmm...
The Albums should be a big hit with guys doing longer resto projects. They can upload all to their Album, then call out individual pics within various threads about the project. Reader can click link and/or go to Album for more detail or more images.