Posting Pictures WAY Too Large on the Forum

[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.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by 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.

I might be the administrator, or whatever, but I am not technical. I will have it looked into though. If it can easily be done, or done at all on our older S/W, then we will get it installed. As I am helpless, I just put a help ticket in. We'll see.
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[maniac_73]

Originally Posted by 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.

Why are you always so upset?

[BRoberts]

Originally Posted by maniac_73

Why are you always so upset?

There are lots of angry little elves here. It's often fun to just sit back and watch them play with each other.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Snowman

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.

Actually I disagree. Who in hell ever promised you things had to be easy? Every forum is different; each has its own idiosyncracies. So if you're going to post somewhere, adapt. And making sure the pictures one posts aren't too big to mess up the formatting of a page isn't nuclear physics. A reasonably intelligent man shouldn't find that overly challenging.

[bmattioli]

I think the term lazy set off a few members..This place is a relief from the world..