Loading Pictures on the Forum Project

[Balticfox]

Members thoughtlessly post pictures that are too wide (say over 1250 pixels) and that messes up the formatting of the page for many of us (I'm using a 15" screen at home). Therefore what's needed is an auto-reduce feature for pictures.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Members thoughtlessly post pictures that are too wide (say over 1250 pixels) and that messes up the formatting of the page for many of us (I'm using a 15" screen at home). Therefore what's needed is an auto-reduce feature for pictures.

Thanks. We have that but maybe we need a better s/w to do it? My at home laptop screen is about 27" as I have an external monitor, keyboard and mouse attached.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Leon

We have that but maybe we need a better s/w to do it?

But it only works if the Manage Attachments feature is used. If the image is hotlinked using IMG tags, images are not reduced.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

But it only works if the Manage Attachments feature is used. If the image is hotlinked using IMG tags, images are not reduced.

Ok. Thanks. So, images that are hotlinked need to be reduced? Anything else?

Here is what I was sent from the engineer but he isn't super familiar with the ins and outs of vbulletin image loading...

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[Vintagedeputy]

Last night, I tried to upload a picture that was zoomed in on a card and the system wouldn’t accept it. I then went for a wider photo where the card was smaller and it accepted that. I would just like a system that accepts the photos that we send without any technical knowledge required to reduce them.

[Zach Wheat]

It would also be nice to have images archived so when the image hosting application expires, readers can still see the photo's. Not sure how big of an issue this is, but it helps when reading old threads where the pics are important.

[D. Bergin]

Hot-linking is a whole other animal. I wouldn't even know if there's a way to fix that other than disallowing it completely...which I wouldn't suggest, just because it would create another obstacle for posters, and it might be inconvenient when it's too big for some posters, but at least it sucks from other websites bandwidth and not Net54's.

If your guy has a way to shrink those down however, that would be great.

If there's a storage issue with attachments Leon, I am certainly ok with you keeping it at 2MB, rather then 5MB. I can easily work around that.

I assumed VBulletin was using a tool to compress them down to how they appear on the website, and storing it at that size. I wasn't aware it was storing the full sized file.

Only problem is other posters who may not be as savvy with internet stuff, don't know why their images aren't uploading. There's no error reason given when an image gets rejected. It just says "Upload of File Failed", but it doesn't say why.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Hot-linking is a whole other animal. I wouldn't even know if there's a way to fix that other than disallowing it completely...which I wouldn't suggest, just because it would create another obstacle for posters, and it might be inconvenient when it's too big for some posters, but at least it sucks from other websites bandwidth and not Net54's.

If your guy has a way to shrink those down however, that would be great.

Hotlinked pictures are reduced on other discussion forums (e.g. Vintage Non-Sports) so it can't be difficult for a computer pro.