Please learn to thumbnail images

[Thorny]

thanks, that was quicker than googling

Oh no, I hope the clueless don't see this!

[THX1138b]

If you wanted people to learn how to thumbnail images, why not do something smart like put the instructions in the first post of the thread? Why does every task on Linux have to entail reading an entire thread to find the information needed?

[GarryRicketson]

Why does every task on Linux have to entail reading an entire thread to find the information needed?

Because that is the way it is.




If you are using "imigur", and it appears you are.
It is as simple as adding a "s" to the url:

Look at how it looks in code boxes:

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[url=https://i.imgur.com/H7I8nkL.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/H7I8nkLs.jpg [/img][/url]

Note, I add the "s" Here:

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 https://i.imgur.com/H7I8nkLs.jpg

You can even copy/paste what I show in the first code boxes , use it in your post , and the thumbnail will display, and link to the image .

[debiman]

If you wanted people to learn how to thumbnail images, why not do something smart like put the instructions in the first post of the thread? Why does every task on Linux have to entail reading an entire thread to find the information needed?

it's called common courtesy: not everyone who's looking at a thread wants to be forced to load $RANDOM_NEWB's fullsize images.
it can also destroy page formatting, depending on how good the forum software is at dealing with it.
it also pointlessly creates additional bandwidth for everybody, and, i say it again, they are not given a choice about it.

there's quite many things in this world that require learning new stuff, reading, obeying rules etc.
i wonder how you fare out there...

[GarryRicketson]

If the admins wanted to, they could stop the oversized huge images cold :


It is a simple setting in the Posts>settings section. Still it would be better if people just learned to use thumbnails, and did their image posting in good taste, voluntarily, instead of needing to force a size limit.

[dcihon]

Sorry to jump in here and I haven't read every post in this thread but I have a question.
What would be the best image tool to use out there for accomplishing this?
I have seen some of these image sites that when you go click on the image you get pictures of girls that are kind of leaning to nudity.

[GarryRicketson]

Yea, I know, a lot or most of them are bad that way, with the advertising.
"imgur" is the most popular one on this forum. I use my own servers to store my images.
As for "tools", my favourite and what I use is ImageMagick, the 'convert' command for resizing. Others prefer Gimp, or any of the many other graphics tools available for Debian.

[Bulkley]

What would be the best image tool to use out there for accomplishing this?

Yes, some of the image hosting sites are questionable at best. My radar goes up whenever I see anything offered as "free." Having said that, another poster here put me on to Postimage. When a user uploads to Postimage nine choices are presented including Thumbnail for forums.