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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 8, 2021 14:44:59 GMT -6
I'd appreciate if everyone could try and upload picture attachments to something like imgbb.com/Then you just copy the link and paste in the thread. Easy as that. I'm just finding people are willy nilly uploading pics as large as 3-4MB and it's killing my forum storage and inevitably costing me more money. |
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Post by EmRR on Jan 8, 2021 14:46:04 GMT -6
Thanks. I try to do exactly that unless it's a rare moment where it's just me with a phone camera in real time.....wait.....that's most of america.....
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 8, 2021 14:50:13 GMT -6
Thanks. I try to do exactly that unless it's a rare moment where it's just me with a phone camera in real time.....wait.....that's most of america..... Using your phone would make it even easier. Click on the imgbb.com link, click "start uploading" and it requests whether you want to pull from the library or take a photo. |
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Post by Guitar on Jan 8, 2021 14:51:02 GMT -6
I'll go back and clear up my latest picture post with this in mind, no problem.
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Post by the other mark williams on Jan 8, 2021 15:04:23 GMT -6
Thanks for pointing this out, Johnkenn . It's hard to know the best way to handle pics sometimes on various forums. Now we know the best way for RGO. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2021 15:04:50 GMT -6
Sure thing. I'll delete the plugin doctor pngs soon.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 8, 2021 15:23:50 GMT -6
It’s no biggie. You guys don’t have to go back and change anything, just try and do it that way moving forward.
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Post by winetree on Jan 8, 2021 17:38:39 GMT -6
I've been using my Canon Camera at 640 x 480 to post pictures on this site, since the last time we were told about this.
The pictures use just kilobytes and still look good.
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Post by Ward on Jan 11, 2021 8:27:09 GMT -6
And if everybody could donate a minimum of $10 a year to help cover storage costs, that would be great! It's really easy to do. Paypal and credit card buttons on the bottom left of every page.
Gracia amigos y amigas!
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Post by donr on Jan 12, 2021 9:56:21 GMT -6
The only bum thing about imgbb.com is you don't see the image in the post. I try to export pics as medium quality jpegs, so they're large enough to see detail, but never bigger data wise than 400kb.
I also can't/don't post images directly to RGO from a phone. Too bad the forum software doesn't deny huge data photos automatically. I think some sites do.
I can live with imgbb.com. I use this same software on my forum, but there's not much pictures uploaded there. Almost all YouTube links.
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Post by Guitar on Jan 12, 2021 10:04:33 GMT -6
I use imgur.com but you have to "learn" how to use it. If you post a (private) photo, because it's some kind of social site, you can open the image in a new tab with a right click in windows/google chrome. THEN you have a URL that you can insert into RGO with the little picture icon thing.
I put almost no effort into resizing them for the forum so they are always fricking huge pictures, resolution wise. If I thought about it I would use IRFanView to resample/resize the photos for posting but I guess it's not that important so I'll probably keep posting oversized photos from Imgur. You could use IRFanView to get a pretty small size for a direct to RGO upload also, if you want to use johnkenn's data. Just pick a small resolution, and a very lossy compression for the JPG, it would be a small file.
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Post by donr on Jan 15, 2021 18:13:14 GMT -6
As long as the file is hosted elsewhere, huge photos are a plus. You can zoom in and see details. I like looking at racks of gear, and closeups of pieces.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 24, 2021 10:15:19 GMT -6
If everyone stayed around 200-400kb, it would be cool...but people are posting 3mb photos which are 3 times the size. I could limit attachment size to whatever I want...don’t remember what I have it at now, but maybe I’ll limit it to like 1mb.
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Post by tim on Jan 24, 2021 22:38:00 GMT -6
It's 1mb currently.
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Post by tim on Jan 24, 2021 22:44:16 GMT -6
As long as the file is hosted elsewhere, huge photos are a plus. You can zoom in and see details. I like looking at racks of gear, and closeups of pieces. True that is nice but one thing that sucks is when the links get broken and the photos are gone on a post. See this all the time on other forums and it's kind of a bummer. But totally understand that someone has to foot the bill for storage. |
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Post by Johnkenn on Dec 27, 2022 9:46:08 GMT -6
Just as a reminder - as I’ve had to go in and clean up a bunch of 5mb pictures stored on the forum - please use something like postimages.org to post pics. It’s super simple.
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Post by Johnkenn on Dec 27, 2022 9:59:08 GMT -6
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 26, 2023 13:39:53 GMT -6
Just a reminder here
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Post by Ward on Oct 30, 2023 17:54:48 GMT -6
It's very easy for anyone to put their pictures on their computer (we're all using them) and reduce the size down from 4MB to 150kb without losing the point of the picture in most cases. Save at a lower resolution and upload those.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 30, 2023 19:48:52 GMT -6
Yeah. That or I just use postimages.org. Then select “resize my pic for message board”. Copy and paste.
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Post by easyrider on Mar 25, 2024 6:11:36 GMT -6
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Post by doubledog on Apr 2, 2024 7:41:33 GMT -6
if you are trying to link to a Google image that you already shared and wondering why it does not work, then click the "BBcode" button and replace the URL with: lh3.google.com/u/0/d/<image id> where < image id> is that really long string that is unique to each photo your original code probably looks like: drive.google.com/file/d/<image id> |
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