CurtB....I agree with your posted observation above. This "joining the individual forums" item only started happening for me on the Xmas Day. I'm guessing for you too. Your question "Is there anybody who can post images who didn't join the forum in which the comment is located" ....well we know that many other posters had no problem in the past....unless they also had to "join" and we were not informed. I think WiderM was the only one to reply post any comment, and he had no problem. Would be nice to here from WiderM if this is so, or he now has to log on. Very strange that there has not been other users making comments on this subject.
I also did see that when you now "join", even if you plan not to insert images.....that a different view of the topic appears. Under the lightning bolt, selecting the "you are now a member" shows a slightly different display than when you just select the 1 + 4 topics at the top or a specific entry under this Bolt. I even see when someone joined into one of the topic columns....
But hey, Cox will not provide a dialogue so we must rely on observations from the user community!
ekhawaii, WiderMouthOpen is a member of the TV and Internet forums and he didn't join them anytime recently. (I hope you don't mind that I looked at your profile, WiderM). I don't think the ability to post images is a regional thing and I don't think any changes were made Christmas Day. I think all we had to do to be able to post images all along was just join the forums. I'm not sure if the "click to join" has been at the bottom of the screen this whole time, but I suspect it was. I never joined the forums because it isn't required for posting comments.
Thanks CurtB...it's hard to realize the both of us were blind to that Join notice on the bottom for as long as we have been discussing this issue...as well as sending emails to Cox over the last 2mo. Only on Xmas day did I receive a comment from Cox in my posted forum link about item on the bottom....then they closed the blog. I like to try things and would definitely have tried that. Unfortunately, we have had practically Zero users even commenting here and there about this. We have seen in many other blogs lots of image posting...even Bruce today saying he had issues and had to find an internet URL approach....but I see users with PingPlot, modem results, cmd line Tracert and Ping, and a whole bunch more....but no responses back from any other people out there. Either as you said, it was always there and users always used it....Since Cox themselves won't expand the commentary, all we can do is speculate and make wild guesses. SAD!
Sure learned a lot today, Happy Holidays...
It was right in front of us, but apparently Cox didn't realize it either. I think the issue is that the message says "Internet Forum requires membership for participation - click to join". But, participation only requires authentication with your Cox credentials. It doesn't actually require "click to join" to participate.
There's still some testing to be done before I can be sure of my thesis. I'll probably check out a few postings with images to see if there are any without an Internet reference that were posted by users who aren't in the Forum group.
I just found a screen shot I had saved on my computer of a Cox Forum page from 10/26/2019. The "click to join" is at the bottom of the page, same as now.
Happy Holidays!
