Thanks for the prompt response.

Knowing how flexible this software is, I was surprised at the response. I had actually anticipated you might say that tags for the image URL and filenames were available to be used in the templates!

I'm currently using a YaBB board, and was looking at the possibility of moving to Gossamer Forum mainly for speed benefits in searches and more flexibility in customizing the user profiles. It would be very difficult to give up the inline image feature we currently enjoy. Only a tiny minority of the posters have ever used UBB code of any kind to link images by URL.

Since mine is an art-oriented group, it would be very difficult to give up inline images and expect everyone to hunt for attachments and click on links. Our most successful competitors in our sphere have inline images as well, and about 1/3 of the postings are image posts.

Inline images do slow page loads, and that can be an issue both for the server and the users. Since my forum took off it has become pretty graphic-intensive, and I am thinking I will need to try to use imagemagick to generate some thumbnails that can be used as inline previews.

I will keep following developments here with Gossamer Forum, as it appears to be evolving along the lines of something we may be able to use. I have a reasonable ability with perl, but very little with MySql and knowing what it would take to implement inline image display.

Thanks again for the response,

Matt