Posting Pictures WAY Too Large on the Forum

[Leon]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

Sincere question that I have been wanting to ask for a while but was embarrassed....
I take pics from my phone, and most will load, but some will not. Even the ones that do are very large. Can someone help me know what to do?
I'm just 51, but I am an analog man in a digital world!
Thank you!

Someone else might be able to help but I am unaware of how to do it from a phone. I am somewhat technically challenged too.

As to the question of, do I resize many of them for members myself and repost them? The answer is yes. But it is happening so frequently now that I could spend my whole day doing it.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Leon

Someone else might be able to help but I am unaware of how to do it from a phone. I am somewhat technically challenged too.

As to the question of, do I resize many of them for members myself and repost them? The answer is yes. But it is happening so frequently now that I could spend my whole day doing it.

Leon, I doubt you are technically challenged. After all, you host the most important social media board in the country.

[pawpawdiv9]

Been guilty several times..by copy&paste the auction house link and its very large.
Now that i use my iphone i have to crop the photo or whatever to get to upload the pics as it wont load. Still learning.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Yoda

After all, you host the most important social media board in the country.

I don't classify this discussion forum as "social media". If you convince me that it is, I'll stop posting here.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I don't classify this discussion forum as "social media". If you convince me that it is, I'll stop posting here.

Poor choice of words my part. What I meant was a forum, Net54, that is important to us. I would be the last one in the world to post on a social media site. Some of them are downright dangerous. Net54 is the only online chat board I belong to.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I don't classify this discussion forum as "social media". If you convince me that it is, I'll stop posting here.

https://www.google.com/search?q=defi...ie=UTF-8#ebo=0

Seems like all online discussion forums like this are social media.

[Balticfox]

I don't believe I should trust Google. Isn't Google a willing tool of the ChiComs in Peking?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I don't believe I should trust Google. Isn't Google a willing tool of the ChiComs in Peking?

???

Google was the search engine I used. You were supposed to look at the actual websites listed. Like Miriam-Webster's dictionary. Unless they are part of the international conspiracy, too.

I'm actually more interested to know how YOU define social media if an online community forum doesn't qualify. I've never heard anyone argue that position.

[Snowman]

You are the administrator here Leon. This is your responsibility, not ours. All you need to do is install ImageMagick and it will automatically handle resizing images upon upload. And it's free. Expecting users to go through the trouble of manually resizing images and changing image formats every time they want to post a picture is ridiculous. And calling them lazy for not doing it is, well, also ridiculous. Don't be lazy. Just install ImageMagick on the server. Problem solved. For everyone. It would even take you less time to install it than it would for you to comb through posts deleting large images.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

???Google was the search engine I used. You were supposed to look at the actual websites listed. Like Miriam-Webster's dictionary. Unless they are part of the international conspiracy, too.

You never know....

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I'm actually more interested to know how YOU define social media if an online community forum doesn't qualify.

Are you really? You're the one who just called another poster an "entitled jerk" (and one with whom I've noticed you have a long running feud). Friendly chats don't seem to be your forte. So I suspect you're just hacking me. But as I told you a couple of weeks ago, if you want to trade jibes I'll play.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I've never heard anyone argue that position.

Oh, you haven't? Were you then born yesterday?

Discussion forums have been around more than a decade longer than sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok which were the ones that gave rise to the term "social media". If anything discussion forums such as this are anti-social media.