Photos: RESIZE, please

[Stefan]

Please, PLEASE resize photos to a good size. Unnecessarily huge photos that fit on nobody's screen and take a long time to load are just annoying. And it's so easy to shrink them! The popular TinyPic for example simply offers it right in the upload form so there's no excuse to not use it:



Their "Message Board" size of 640x480 is probably best for most pictures here. Go smaller if that's still large enough, go larger if you really have a good reason, e.g., it's a sharp high quality photo showing small details of an interesting complex puzzle.

Also, using the [spoiler]...[/spoiler] tag might be a good idea if you want to show many or large pictures. Then they don't make the page huge and people visiting a page again just to read a new reply don't have to load all pictures again. Notice that I do put the below examples in spoiler tags but I didn't with the above picture showing the TinyPic form. That's because it's just one picture and it's quite small (both screen size and file size) so in that case, it would be unnecessarily annoying to spoiler it and to require people to open the spoiler. Plus, spoilering takes some screen size itself. Whether you should spoiler your image(s) depends on the situation, it's a trade-off, just use some common sense. Same goes for *how* to spoiler, like each image in its own spoiler, or all images in one spoiler.

Bad examples:

Spoiler:

Good versions:

Spoiler:

[kprox1994]

This should be stickied.

[~Phoenix Death~]

Holy shiz. You are awesome man.
It also is insulting to us small-laptop-screen users to have to scroll down a lot just to see the image.
Why didn't I make a thread of this?

[Stefan]

It also is insulting to us small-laptop-screen users to have to scroll down a lot just to see the image.

Or having to scroll left and right and left and right and left and right just to read a post on a page that contains a huge unspoilered picture too wide for the actual screen, making all posts wide. That's vandalism.

[LewisJ]

Holy shiz. You are awesome man.
It also is insulting to us small-laptop-screen users to have to scroll down a lot just to see the image.
Why didn't I make a thread of this?

800x480 eeepc 701 ftw >_>

Definitely a good reminder for every*daniel0731ex*one on these forums.

[Stefan]

Definitely a good reminder for every*daniel0731ex*one on these forums.

In Daniel's defense, though: I think he mostly posts images here that were posted by others on the mf8 forum (and they're usually smaller than that). So it's mainly *their* fault. Resizing them afterwards would also make the mf8 logo watermark smaller, giving a reason to not do it. When I used one of these as an example, it was just because of its size and because I found it quickly, not to blame this particular instance or Daniel. The request of this thread is mainly for original posters of photos.

[hyunchoi98]

Holy shiz. You are awesome man.
It also is insulting to us small-laptop-screen users to have to scroll down a lot just to see the image.
Why didn't I make a thread of this?

I have a big 21.5" mac (not trying to brag or anything)
and even I have a VERY HARD TIME seeing it.

[AndyRoo789]

So true.

[JBCM627]

Perhaps PJK/Dan could just make an option in the user CP for this? Doesn't even have to be an option... just something as simple as adding max-width=50% to images using css could work.

[Stefan]

Perhaps PJK/Dan could just make an option in the user CP for this? Doesn't even have to be an option... just something as simple as adding max-width=50% to images using css could work.

That could help a bit, yes.

Wouldn't reduce the load time, though, plus it takes the browsers extra time to resize, plus browsers don't resize as nicely (they care more about speed than quality), plus scrolling over browser-resized huge pictures is slow in my experience. So even if the forum limits the size by telling the browser, properly resizing the image file will still be a good idea.