throughout decades of electronics usage we have always sought to turn off anything/everything we can/could to reduce attack-surface / bandwidth-consumption / doxxing / identity-theft / etc.

once again...and on a daily basis...humbled & _hat_in_hand_head_bowed_

nevertheless,

Be Excellent to each other and Party On!

Click on the "Profile" link, then click on the "Display" menu entry and then decide about whether to set (or not) the toggle for "show images in posts", followed by a light poke at the "submit" button.

https://dev1galaxy.org/help.php#img

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If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. The text appearing after the "=" sign in the opening tag is used for the alt attribute and should be included whenever possible.

[img=FluxBB bbcode test]https://dev1galaxy.org/img/test.png[/img] produces FluxBB bbcode test

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tried to do this a variety of ways and never succeeded. this was the image i was trying to embed:

are the instructions correctly incorrect?