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Hi. Happy New Year.
The £ sign issue will be fixed in the final import. Mismatched character set.

I’ll also up the image limit to 2Mb.

Re: images in signatures, users may need to update these, depending on where they currently host the images.

Hi,
I don't see an issue with unlimited image sizes provided the software uses correctly dynamic and / or responsive theme designs. We work with anything up to 4k wide now, and so I don't see the point in limiting. The software ought to be able to handle it.
We also limit specifically personal gallery totals but to be honest, disk space isn't expensive. I'm sure for us all previews - including parsed Youtube links - are limited to 1024 or 1200 pix wide - which is more than enough - and a click will provide the full sized original. Can't Xenforo do this?

- Bret
 
Can we get one thing straight, I don't think anyone is asking for larger file sizes because of quality. The main problem is that pictures taken on decent phones and cameras use large file sizes. Resizing an image just so it can be posted on the forum is not only a pain, but not everyone is technically able or even wants to have to resize their pictures before they can post them.

I post LOTS of pictures and my image file size is normally above 3meg. It is a real pain having to edit every image to get them below 2meg.

So if there is a way to allow larger file sizes for images then it would help most members!!

Steve B
 
Another alternative would be to configure the camera settings of the phone/camera to shoot at lower resolution.
 
Another alternative would be to configure the camera settings of the phone/camera to shoot at lower resolution.

Yes, but what is the point of a 12 megapixel camera in your phone and then backing off the resolution?

I agree that it is an option but I prefer to take decent pictures first and then worrying about needing to downsize them.

Cheers
Steve B
 
there's several good reasons for limiting it.

1. Disk space
2. serving bandwidth
3. upload times
4. upload bandwidth.

None of these are trivially easy to solve without throwing money at the problem. A Datacentre SSD is rather more robust than the thing in your laptop and priced accordingly. It's not expensive unless you've got no money.

Personally, I don't tend to post full res pics, but that's also because a) I know what I'm doing and b) I don't directly post them anyway. i'll upload the pics to 23hq - my preferred hosting service - and then link them back. I don't use forum space and I retain control of my own pics.

If someone has a disk space issue - which I could quite easily understand as right now we have one permanently over on the German site - then a limit is the way to go. It's for users to work out if they're prepared to pay to overcome the discomfort that limits bring.

- Bret
 
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