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rstofer:

--- Quote from: sokoloff on July 07, 2019, 12:57:55 pm ---What I don’t like about recommending external hosting is that you then make the long-run hosting subject to the whims and business model changes (or even tech changes) of a third party provider.

I’m on several forums where there’s some old posts with all the images gone.

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I have  a different point of view on ancient threads.  I think threads should be tagged as zombies after a year since the last post (or a year from origination) and no more posts are accepted.  Read all you want but don't try to bring it back to life.  Given a zombie thread, I wouldn't mind having the images deleted a year or so after that point.  This stuff just isn't important enough to archive forever.
sokoloff:
I understand that point of view. I don't happen to agree, because very few fields change that quickly.

What worked in engineering, cars, aviation, home appliances, electronics, or whatever a year ago probably still works today. It's amazingly frustrating to find via search a thread with your exact issue and screenshots in the thread, with text that says "see screenshot for the solution" and for the screenshot to be 404...
nctnico:

--- Quote from: sokoloff on July 07, 2019, 12:57:55 pm ---What I don’t like about recommending external hosting is that you then make the long-run hosting subject to the whims and business model changes (or even tech changes) of a third party provider.

I’m on several forums where there’s some old posts with all the images gone.

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I agree that using external images / attachement isn't ideal but this forum simply doesn't offer a viable alternative. If you want to create a posting with several images on EEVblog you have to re-edit your post several times and copy links to the attachements. That is a lot of work (besides the size of the images). Some forums (like Tapatalk) have their own system to handle attachements in a user friendly way.

@sokoloff: you are 100% right. I don't like it when that happens too.
bsfeechannel:
I guess it all boils down to the fact that the Internet has become essentially graphic and this forum software--what is it called? SMF?--is still text-oriented when it comes to uploading: as if we were sending email messages. It still treats anything that is not text as if it were a MIME, i.e., an extension, an appendix, an attachment.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 07, 2019, 12:37:08 am ---
--- Quote from: StillTrying on July 07, 2019, 12:20:02 am ---Don't you think a single simple line drawing opening to a 5102x6599 image and using 100MB of browser memory is a bit excessive for one image in a mostly text forum, it only works well because most of us resize.

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Perhaps, but in some other cases like a detailed image of a large PCB, there really would be a good reason to have that level of detail. A 1080p/1MB "soft limit" might be an idea, where the user would be asked if they really intended to post something bigger. I wonder if a large percentage of those who post pictures well above 1080p without intending to do so were posting from a smartphone or tablet.

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Or people with super large images just just post them on Imgur or anywhere else and link/embed that. If people want to see all 100million pixels they can click on it and go there.
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