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Forum crops instead of resizes images
Forum crops instead of resizes images
I noticed the forum appears to crop instead of resizing images. I think this is only marginally better than simply rejecting the post and I suggested automatic resizing the images instead. I don't know how phpBB works under the hood but I think other phpBB forums have this functionality.
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Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
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It really is very simple, most image storage sites have a option to
make a thumb nail, use it,
Or simply make your own (that is what I do)
It really is very simple, most image storage sites have a option to
make a thumb nail, use it,
Or simply make your own (that is what I do)
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Some do, but this board does not have that feature.I don't know how phpBB works under the hood but I think other phpBB forums have this functionality.
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Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
Another good one that provide a thumbnail link, plus various downsized image links, and does not require registration, is https://postimages.org/
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Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
read:
i'm too lazy to do this myself, why is this not automated like on facebook/iphone/whateverapp!
autoresizing images
the whole bible can be downloaded with 4 - 5 MB - that's less than an average mobile phone .jpg.
i think the best solution would be to simply reject images beyond a certain file size.
i'm too lazy to do this myself, why is this not automated like on facebook/iphone/whateverapp!
autoresizing images
- is not what everybody wants/needs
- puts a LOT of extra stress on the servers
- means the images have to be stored on the server = lots of storage (and who's going to pay for that)
the whole bible can be downloaded with 4 - 5 MB - that's less than an average mobile phone .jpg.
i think the best solution would be to simply reject images beyond a certain file size.
Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
Read: Everything was better in the 60s when you couldn't even connect to the Internet without manually dialing a telephone number. Lazy millennials are ruining everything with their always-on Internet connections and German efficiency. We should follow the Amish example!debiman wrote:read:
i'm too lazy to do this myself, why is this not automated like on facebook/iphone/whateverapp!
autoresizing imagesmany people don't seem to realize that lots of text takes much less storage than just one image.
- is not what everybody wants/needs
- puts a LOT of extra stress on the servers
- means the images have to be stored on the server = lots of storage (and who's going to pay for that)
the whole bible can be downloaded with 4 - 5 MB - that's less than an average mobile phone .jpg.
i think the best solution would be to simply reject images beyond a certain file size.
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Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
i'll just quote this priceless piece of teenage ramblings to preserve it from any possible future edits.THX1138b wrote:Read: Everything was better in the 60s when you couldn't even connect to the Internet without manually dialing a telephone number. Lazy millennials are ruining everything with their always-on Internet connections and German efficiency. We should follow the Amish example!
Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
Wow, you must be really old. Perhaps so old that your memory is faulty, in the 60s there wasn't an Internet.THX1138b wrote:Read: Everything was better in the 60s when you couldn't even connect to the Internet without manually dialing a telephone number.
Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
^ i actually looked it up; the beginnings of the internet go back to the mid- late- sixties; not sure if they used phonelines back then, but it certainly wasn't better.
Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
Then it was not the Internet, certainly not the Internet as we know it today. It was a method for academics to collaborate. I was in University then.debiman wrote:^ i actually looked it up; the beginnings of the internet go back to the mid- late- sixties; not sure if they used phonelines back then, but it certainly wasn't better.
Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
that is certainly correct.Thorny wrote:certainly not the Internet as we know it today.
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Re: Forum crops instead of resizes images
It is working now, and they even have a feature that creates thumbnails, etcstevepusser wrote:Another good one that provide a thumbnail link, plus various downsized image links, and does not require registration, is https://postimages.org/
Whoops, looks like their security certificate expired a couple hours ago. Wake up guys--hope they fix that soon.
automatically.
So does "imgur" .
I know, image resizing and creating thumb nails is extremely tedious, and complicated, can be time consuming.
That is why I read some documentation, and learned to use a few basic tools, so now all my images get resized automatically , and I don't need to depend on any forum software to do that.
That also is why most storage sites also offer a automatic method of creating
the thumb nails, and they all include documentation on using those features, for new users.
This forum is not intended to be a image storage site, there is
no reason we should have to do that for people that do not like to read instructions, and unfortunately we have not yet developed a technology that reads instructions, and the automatically follows them for those kind of people.
Maybe some day we will.
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