What happened to pasting an image into a thread?

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Screen cap something, then CTRL-V on a forum post. This was a viable way to add images to posts two-ish days ago, but as of mid-day Jan 3, 2023, I found I ~must~ use the attachment function to attach an already-saved and named file from my local machine AND, once done, insert that attachment as a full image wherever I want the image to appear in a post. i.e. Whatever automation used to magically do that sort of thing with a simple CTRL-V into a post in the past ... seems to have stopped working.

Notes:
* Windows 11 system w/ latest updates
* Edge v108.0.1462.54 w/ adblocker running
* No recent changes to local system
* Disabled the adblocker and the issue persisted
* Loaded a fresh browser instantiation and the issue still persisted
* CTRL-V'd the image that was previously copied into buffer .... successfully into both MS Paint and MS Word ... thereby validating it was, in fact, in the buffer ~and~ the CTRL key wasn't stuck/malfunctioning

Thoughts?
 
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Working for me on iPad (copy and paste).

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Interesting, as I didn't know iPads ran Windows 11 natively. Were you using Edge on it, too?

/sarcasm off :)

Well, that likely helps narrow to it being some sort of Interaction unrelated to iPads. Thanks for checking that.
 
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Hmm. And here I was always using the attach files button.

I'm guessing whatever is going on, is also causing some member's images to look like broken links.

I've seen a rash of that happening, lately.
 
kcult said:
Hmm. And here I was always using the attach files button.

I'm guessing whatever is going on, is also causing some member's images to look like broken links.

I've seen a rash of that happening, lately.
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Yeah, same here. Isn't technology wonderful?

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Thanks for helping to narrow things, guys. At least I know I'm not the only one seeing weirdness (which, by the way, I can confirm is only happening to me here).
 
Copy/paste & etc. works fine for me with Win 11 and Firefox.

However, I was disappointed when the forum software began only allowing full images to be inserted rather than also making thumbnails available.
 
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So, it would appear some changes HAVE been made to the attachment/image functionality, as others have noted differences related to such, as well. At least I know I'm not going crazy...
 
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gc70 said:
Copy/paste & etc. works fine for me with Win 11 and Firefox.

However, I was disappointed when the forum software began only allowing full images to be inserted rather than also making thumbnails available.
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Once the image is in the post you can resize it, if that helps.
 
Since people running browsers other than Edge didn't seem to be having a problem, I dug into Edge last night and manually updated from version 108.0.1462.54 to 108.0.1462.76 ... and rebooted.

Everything now works as expected (i.e. as it previously did). I post this in case someone else runs into the issue, and I thank all who provided feedback to help me narrow the problem. It seems something was amiss in that build of Edge -- which is bizarre, as there wasn't a recent update to Edge on my end. Bugs, I spose...
 
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