your link goes to the instagram page not the image
if it was the image, the only thing that you'd see was a single image. Instead you see the instagram logo and comments etc.
the link I provided is what actually delivered the image to my browser but Instagram prevents hotlinking (pulling an image linked from a different website) and also delivers images via a CDN (content delivery network) so there is no real way to link to an Instagram image other than to link to the page it is on and display the entire page. But the way the Swap is configured the "Image URL" is only wanting a URL to a specific (single) image which is then embedded into the Recipe Swap message.
Even on a more modern forum where the software allows you to embed an image from an external URL (an address on an external website) you still would not be able to link to an Instagram photo. They just don't want you to and prevent it. A lot of sites still allow hotlinking but some don't and Instagram is one of them. Maybe they'll offer a paid hotlinking option in the future! smileys/wink.gif
If we ever get to the point where we can modernize the Recipe Swap code, uploading images would be very simple to accomplish. The fix that Maria is testing is a workaround rather than a fix. It will just allow you to upload a file to the site and then link to it in the original Recipe Swap here.
I'm also working on some rewrites in the database to update any old images that were linked to on Photobucket. This includes both avatars that some members used for their Recipe Swap account and linked to from Photobucket as well as about 1000 or so images that were in the Finer Kitchens photobucket account. All of which that still existed (some were previously deleted by member I have found) I now have recreated under the eat.at website.
