Trying again to figure out how to make entries with photos

[dreamshark]

 I would really like to post more on Dreamwidth, but I find it so incredibly frustrating to use. On LJ I used to post little stories with half a dozen or so pictures interleaved with text. I just can't find a way to do that on DW. Most of my online photos are on Google Photos, which doesn't play well with other services. I found a little tutorial on how to link Google Photos images to DW that only takes like 6 steps per picture (!!!) so I'm trying that.
If this works, this will be a few pictures from our lovely July staycation when Amber and Lena came to visit.


 
Okay, that didn't work. I clicked on the picture icon in the Rich Text editor and in the field labeled URL I pasted in ... a URL (as generated by the Google Photos Create Link feature). FAIL

Let's try taking it a step further and using the "Embed Code" that Google Photos created for me.


Also fails. 

Please dont tell me that there is no way to do this with  the Rich Text Editor and I have to generate code and paste it into the raw HTML version of my entry?  Let's see what happens. 

Guess what, that does work But there is no way in hell that I am going to write entries in raw HTML. Fuck you, DW. I hate you.

Comments

[jbru]

I’m having similar frustrations. One of the things that makes places like Twitter and Facebook nicer is the ease with which I can get content from camera (phone) to where I want to share things.

[dreamshark]

It is actually pretty easy to send a single picture from your phone to Dreamwidth (assuming you can remember the tortured address you have to use). That's what I'm doing now. I just can't believe that there is no way to create a multi-picture story without having to write in a f**king programming language.