When posting images, consideration should be given to users with slow or expensive internet connections. In particular:
New topics with large embedded images or multiple embedded images (ie, images embedded using the tags) totalling more than 200 K (per person, per topic) must either:
be posted in the "Gallery" forum, or
include warning text such as, "(large images)", in the topic subject
Replies to existing topics outside of the "Gallery" forum and without a "(large images)" warning in the subject, must not use large/multiple images totalling more than 200 K (per person, per topic).
No embedded images (ie, images embedded using tags) should be more than 800 pixels wide to avoid unnecessary scrolling or images being clipped on common screen sizes. This applies to the Gallery forum as well as all other forums. (Even at 800 pixels, images will be clipped in some browser windows).
Attached image files can be any resolution but should be no larger than 1 MB. The forums will display these as 800 pixel (maximum) thumbnails linked to the full size image.
The total size of all images displayed in a topic should be no more than 200k per person per topic (except in the Gallery forums or if the topic has a large images warning in the topic title).
tasadam wrote:What I have done for now is change the maximum file size for messages from 256kb per file with a maximum of 3 files per message, to 1Mb per file with a maximum of 5 files per message.
I have also made Wildwalks aware of this topic and made a suggestion regarding auto-resizing.
It's also about mobile users, with data plans that suck, and cost a fortune in data if you go over.frenchy_84 wrote:I think Internet providers and plans have moved abit further forward from when that rule was introduced Adam.
tasadam wrote:It's also about mobile users, with data plans that suck, and cost a fortune in data if you go over.frenchy_84 wrote:I think Internet providers and plans have moved abit further forward from when that rule was introduced Adam.
north-north-west wrote:ILUVSWTAS wrote:I'd like to be able to add bigger files when sending a PM.
The amount of times I try to add a photo or GPS plot to send someone only to have to resize it is frustrating. quote]
I thought you didn't keep GPX files. Or do you just mean your little squiggly map of where you went . . .?
*thinks* Must do, GPX files take up next to no room compared to images.
Strider wrote:Email it?
north-north-west wrote:It'd still be easier to keep and send the GPX files. They're smaller than jpegs or any sort of image file. Still, to each his own.
I do understand what you mean, I find it a pain to have to resize images for Where am I?, but . . . well, not worth bitching about.
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