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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted December 17, 2014 04:01 PM
I find it really frustrating that I cannot upload any of my photographs and manual scans etc on this forum.
One of the reasons I find, is that of the restriction of Jpegs to a size of 200K. Surely in this day and age that window can be well and truly opened up to a more realistic modern day limitation.
After all, most of the ones I have checked recently are 6948.8K in size! What chance do I have??
Take Facebook for example, no compression required from any photo's I post.
Come on guys, surely we can get into the 21st Century on this and make it a whole lot less time and effort to upload photo's?
I have loads of people asking me for help with their machines, all of which I do my best to help, but unless people are comfortable in giving me their personal e mail addresses (which is often not the case), I feel I am really restricted in the advice and help I could potentially bring to the table without this information being adequately shared among the masses on here, by not easily being able to add photo's, drawings or diagrams to back up the information given.
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted December 17, 2014 04:26 PM
Thanks Pete & Doug for your helpful advice, but surely in this day and age, well after these limits were initially set, with a little work here and there we could have this working just as simply as Facebook does, couldn't we?
After all we have a few thousand users, not millions, so what's the issue in raising the restrictions??
The problem I have with currently posting photo's etc is mainly the time it takes to compress etc in what is already a fast paced way of life already without adding further complications.
If it were as simple and easy as FB for example, I am sure we would ALL benefit from the images etc posted.
[ December 17, 2014, 05:27 PM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]
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Pete Holzmann
Junior
Posts: 15
From: Colorado, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted December 17, 2014 05:00 PM
Sadly, no it's not all that easy.
YES, there's likely a plugin that might do the job (http://www.photopost.com/installphp-vbgallery.html) -- however:
a) The solution is not already built-in to the software that runs this site
b) Investigating, testing, installing, maintaining optional plugins takes quite a bit of time
c) This site is NOT FB, Wordpress.com, etc with a zillion servers and a staff of hundreds.
AFAIK, 8mm Forum is run by one guy, in his "spare" time. And if it happens to be running on an older set of server software, it could easily require a significant effort to upgrade all the pieces so this request can be filled.
Speaking as a been-there-done-that forum admin (and forum software architect.)
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