canyoncreek, something changed, and for the better. Two days ago, all attached images were just broken icons. Now they are visible as thumbnails and launch bigger when you click on them.

I agree, the "insert image link" function does not put the photo inline. It just pastes your link as text between non-functioning image tags. I have only been a member here for 6 months, but I never saw this function work correctly. Did it work in the past?

However, imgur has something called "direct link", which, when pasted in the forum's "insert image link", will put the image inline, like this:

[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]

This appears to be equivalent to pasting the BBCode, like this:

[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]

The difference between image link and direct link is that the direct link includes the .jpg extension.

Still, posting images should not be this hard.