No way to add a picture to a post.

This is what it says under "How to use Gransnet" -

"Whether you’re starting a new thread or posting on an existing one, under the box where you type your message, you’ll find an option that says Images: and beside it are three Choose file buttons. Simply click on one of the buttons, select the file you’d like to upload from your device and it will be added to your post. If you change your mind, you can delete the file by clicking on the Remove image text."

It doesn't work!!

The facility has probably been removed because of the illegal images posted on Mumsnet recently? The ability to post pictures was removed on Mumsnet as a result.

Someone posted a picture on the good morning thread yesterday, so if it’s been taken down, it must have been since then. Shame if it has. I’ve never seen anything on GN that could be considered contravertial.

I've just looked at yesterday's Good Morning thread, and yes, there is a pic on there, but if I pretend I am posting a comment on that thread, there is still no way to post a pic. It must have only just happened!

If features are removed from general use every time someone abuses them, we will end up with a blank screen that we can't put anything onto! Th answer is to employ enough moderators to keep an eye on things, and have certain things flagged up automatically to help them. Not actual AI !!! That just gets innocent things deleted without appeal, and meanwhile the real baddies find ways round the rules.

The “facility” has disappeared!

Iv'e contacted GNHQ and had a reply asking if that is so right now. Have answered that it is not working now but was yesterday on the Good Morning Thread.

You are right it seems to have disappeared. Hope it is only a temporary glitch.

Elegran

Iv'e contacted GNHQ and had a reply asking if that is so right now. Have answered that it is not working now but was yesterday on the Good Morning Thread.

I posted a pic on Soops last night!

It has definitely gone here. That's a shame, I like pictures.

I've had another reply.
^"Image posting has been turned off on Gransnet for now. We're sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate it's a pain.
We'll be looking to get back to normal as soon as we can. "^

You would’ve thought the moderators would have let us know what’s going on.🤷‍♀️

Elegran

I've had another reply.
^"Image posting has been turned off on Gransnet for now. We're sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate it's a pain.
We'll be looking to get back to normal as soon as we can. "^

Oh they have but given no reason..

I’m pretty sure it is linked with the Mumsnet action.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/justine-roberts-mumsnet-founder-scotland-yard-metropolitan-police-b1209113.html
As Gransnet is an offshoot of Mumsnet, it woukd be remiss for security to be improved on one site and not the other.

I'd have thought they would block that on Gransnet at the same time as on Mumsnet. Maybe thought we'd be less likely to have children looking at our screens.

I had no idea about that.
It sounds awful. Sinister.

Casdon

The facility has probably been removed because of the illegal images posted on Mumsnet recently? The ability to post pictures was removed on Mumsnet as a result.

Yes, someone said then it had been taken down but it was still available until yesterday, I think, although I did think it was my device.
Whst a pity but it is the right thing to do.

'Over large' photos have never loaded, in my experience.
I don't know about recently, tho'.

Testing ...
Yup, no facility now.

What a shame that Gransnet HQ doesn't put out a message telling us what they are doing and why.

Why the secrecy?

I certainly can't see an option on this thread!

Yes, the paperclip has definitely gone. Funny that they can duplicate something like that from Mumsnet overnight but they can't transfer any of the features that we have been asking for for years which are available on Mumsnet. Surely it's not much more than copying and pasting a bit of code.

Elegran

I'd have thought they would block that on Gransnet at the same time as on Mumsnet. Maybe thought we'd be less likely to have children looking at our screens.

I think you have misunderstood something.
The issue at MN and hence also GN as it is the same company
is that criminal images were posted on MN.
Nothing to do with liklihood of children looking at GN or MN.

I would still have expected it to have been removed from Gransnet at the same time as it was on Mumsnet. if the two systems were so closely connected that a hacker could have put the same pics on Gransnet.

We have been able to add pictures from the time of the hacking up until sometime yesterday. If the facility was separate and safe up until then, it should have continued to be safe - unless there has since been a similar attempt recently to infiltrate the Gransnet code.