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StillTrying:
Is the idea to turn EEVblog into a photobucket, make it unusable for 50%+ of the users, or put Dave out of business, or all of them.
Rather than increasing the attachments size to 500MB for those users that can't be bothered cropping and compressing their images for the 1000s of viewers, I'd rather vote for those users to be banned. :)
Its 2019, anyone who hasn't got a 40" laptop on their knee and an 120" monitor on their desk is just not with it.
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 03, 2019, 09:01:21 am ---As I said before, the forum software saves thumbnails in 32-bit colour PNG, which would waste a huge amount of bandwidth, at that resolution. Unfortunately the software isn't smart enough to do as you suggested in your other post.
This has been discussed before. The thumbnails were originally larger, than they are now, 500x500, but were reduced to 100x100, after it was realised how much bandwidth was being wasted: 300kB PNG thumbnails for 52kB JPEGS!
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/news/forum-picture-efficiency/msg46420/#msg46420
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How difficult would it be to have all thumbnails be JPEG, or use JPEG if the source is JPEG and PNG if the source is PNG?
--- Quote from: zucca on July 03, 2019, 11:30:43 am ---The EEVBlog is one if the finest place for EE Hack, we need to be able to pull and store our data (.zip, .7z., ISO images) here.
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P2P would be better for that, such as Bittorrent or IPFS.
bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: zucca on July 03, 2019, 10:11:46 am ---Slow internet connections users they will have problems not only at the EEVblog.
We are in 2019.
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Slow internet connection users do not have problems because most sites are considerate enough to offer images and videos at various resolutions. I can watch whatever of Dave's videos on Youtube from 144p to 1080p.
So, if the forum permit paying users to upload ridiculous 10MB images, then it must provide some automatic resizing to a reasonable resolution so as to not alienate most users.
ledtester:
What about making it a user preference? It would mean tweaking the forum code, but I'm sure it can't be that difficult.
And while we're talking about images, I'd like to have the forum auto-remove EXIF info from jpegs. I'm not worried so much about the typical eevblog forum user, it's just that the photos are available to the general internet and all of the personal info harvesters out there.
StillTrying:
I'm surprised so many don't care about the resolution and MB size.
This original 3.1MB 5102x6599 image expands to 100MB in memory and makes my FF crawl along.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/help-diagnosing-this-dual-555-timer-circuit-please-(pwm-blinking)/msg2525259/#msg2525259
I can get it down to 31kB and 1MB in memory, which is nearly nothing in comparison!
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