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MarkF:
It's not the resolution that's the problem. It is the file size.
Do not post 8 MB pictures! Period. :box:
Some of us do not have the luxury of a Gigabyte internet connection.
At 3 Mbps download speed, these 4K pictures take FOREVER to download.
Surely there is a middle ground here.
The only reason to post pictures that big would be a schematic and if it is in a PNG format it will not have artifacts and the lossless compression will reduce the file size.
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Dubbie on July 02, 2019, 06:10:39 pm ---To users with modern 4K screens, 640 or 800 pix images are practically thumbnails. I think things are fine as they are.
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That would be enough to inform the user if it's worth opening the full resolution image, unlike the current situation where the thumbnails are only useful to give a rough idea what it might be about.
--- Quote from: MarkF on July 02, 2019, 07:59:09 pm ---It's not the resolution that's the problem. It is the file size.
Do not post 8 MB pictures! Period. :box:
Some of us do not have the luxury of a Gigabyte internet connection.
At 3 Mbps download speed, these 4K pictures take FOREVER to download.
Surely there is a middle ground here.
The only reason to post pictures that big would be a schematic and if it is in a PNG format it will not have artifacts and the lossless compression will reduce the file size.
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Hence the idea of making the thumbnails something like 640x480 or 800x600, maybe even as high as 720p. Then the users with limited bandwidth would only open the full resolution images if they think there's something worth looking at in detail.
At this point, I would say that 1080p would satisfy most users in most situations, and still look quite good under 1MB per image. An exception would be images of large boards that need more detail.
MarkF:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 02, 2019, 09:38:15 pm ---
Hence the idea of making the thumbnails something like 640x480 or 800x600, maybe even as high as 720p. Then the users with limited bandwidth would only open the full resolution images if they think there's something worth looking at in detail.
At this point, I would say that 1080p would satisfy most users in most situations, and still look quite good under 1MB per image. An exception would be images of large boards that need more detail.
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Thumbnails that large (even at 640x480) are full size pictures on a 1080p display (i.e. a laptop)!
Thumbnails should not be bigger than 200x150
NiHaoMike:
If the thumbnails don't show much detail, the full image would almost always be opened anyways, saving little bandwidth. I suspect some value around what I gave would be the compromise point that actually would significantly reduce the need to open the full image.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Dubbie on July 02, 2019, 06:10:39 pm ---To users with modern 4K screens, 640 or 800 pix images are practically thumbnails. I think things are fine as they are.
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I doubt that will be the case because those people likely have a zoom factor to scale everything up. Otherwise nothing would be readable in any application.
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