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Images overhaul? How about clipboard paste?

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paulca:
I think it goes without saying the post / attach image functionality is less than ideal.  Maybe it's just me?

A more 2020s feature would be the ability to copy and paste and image into a post directly, rather than uploading or linking it.  Half the time the thumb nails don't work, or maybe that's just for the OP?  It has invisible restrictions which can get confusing when you hit them.  It gets very confused if you upload two images with the same name or sometimes confused when they have different names, but you want to remove one.  I believe I ended up with a picture of a schematic instead of a cat once.  Simon ( I think ) fixed it.

Is there any spare time/effort to put a little TLC in that feature?  Is it still PHPBB?  Oh.  SMFPacks.  Never heard of.

Zero999:
It sounds like a bad idea, unless it's smart enough to decide what format to use and reduce the colour depth, if necessary, for optimal bandwidth.

If I'm posting a schematic, I use png and reduce the colour depth, as 24-bit for an image containing a few colours just wastes bandwidth.

For photographs, I use Jpeg, with the quality set to the point when the artefacts are not noticeable.

jpanhalt:
@paulca
I agree, but would push the antiquity date to 2010, shortly after Windows 7 was released.

As for format, I have never seen a site that allowed pasting and had a problem.  It's seems to be either png or jpg -- png being the usual Windows snipping tool format.  Our current system allows either without a problem.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on September 16, 2023, 02:02:11 pm ---As for format, I have never seen a site that allowed pasting and had a problem.  It's seems to be either png or jpg -- png being the usual Windows snipping tool format.  Our current system allows either without a problem.

--- End quote ---
How does it decide the format? It would annoy me if photographs saved in PNG appeared here because the files would be enormous, or fuzzy schematics in JPEG. Heck I already see enough of the latter. I don't want it to get worse.

DavidAlfa:
90% of forusm do have ths and guess what, they work just fine.
It's up to you to adjust the picture in the post.
Bandwidth is not a problem unless you live in a cave.

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