For years, we’ve had the ability for commenters to include images in their posts, but what appeared in the post was a text link that you had to click to open the image in a popup dialog.

Well, I checked our server’s free space and did some math, and estimated the bandwidth usage, and I couldn’t see any reason why we shouldn’t just display the images instead of using the link-to-popup method.

There’s a limitation, though: you can only include an image in a comment if you’ve uploaded it to LGF using the “Upload Image” button, so it’s added to your LGF Image Library. Images that are hosted at other sites will still use the old link-to-popup method, because image hot-linking is a big no-no.

There are three ways you can embed an image in a comment:

1. Paste the address of the image (at LGF) into your comment, and it will be automatically transformed into the image code.
2. Use the "Upload Image" button to upload a picture to your LGF Image Library. When the upload is finished, click the "Insert Code" button.
3. Click the "Image Library" button, find the image you want to post, and click its "Insert" button.

And a reminder: please respect the copyrights of image owners, and only post images that you own or that are in the public domain.