I had the OP's exact musings this week. My Thursday ride report in the 'your ride today' thread had more than 10 pics, all worthy ones in my view at least. I had to post them as 2 different posts, so had to compose them before hand in word with all the correct image links, and then copy and paste as 2 posts, then do any smileys or any edits, but its stressful and seems like a race to get it done before anyone else posts. I just pasted them quickly and them just used the edit function to tidy them up after, so all in all a bit of a faff.
I have been doing a tree project over the summer, taking lots of pics of notable trees in London and am nearing the point where I wanted to start writing up about it. There are lots of nice pics and it would be better for continuity and ease of reading if I could ensure certain posts were kept together. So in my example, say I was doing a chapter on oaks, so there may be pics of the tree, bark, acorn, leaf etc and then a range of things made out of oak. It would be nice to ensure that was kept together as one post. Am I going to have to set my alarm for 4am to do it, in the hope thats when site traffic is and chances of interruption are minimal?
I'm not wanting it to be a monologue and welcome input from fellow CC'ers, in fact the interactive element and engaging other CC'ers is part of the appeal of writing it on Cyclechat, and not just posting the ride reports on other forums. Other than simply upping the image limit I can't see a way around it really, I mean we could maybe send it to a mod beforehand but thats very onerus on them, I'm sure they've got other things to be doing, and then there's obviously a delay in posts getting posted, which isn't ideal if I've got a follow on post but cant post as the previous one isn't posted yet.
What do you think my best approach is? And please don't say less photos, there's way too many cool ones that deserve inclusion, and they should not be condemned to the editors floor. And if the connected reports are interrupted by a posters musings on what socks they should wear to go to the toilet for example, then it just breaks the flow of the reading, and as I am hoping the thread will run and run and be regularly updated, and hopefully widely read, overall it would just look messier.
) I went on a major cycling trip, and had so much to talk about that my travelogue would span several posts (because I believe there's a limit on the number of images per post?). How would I go about composing such a travelogue, given that I'd have to spread the travel report over several posts? Is there a quarantined area just for composing entire threads before releasing them?
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