Post your screen-shot, make it thumnailed! Options

[foosion]

2E7AH: dude, get over it. the forum resizes images automatically - why do you have to complain every time? go buy a real monitor if you can't handle big images...

Even if the image is displayed at a smaller size, it still is over 600 kilobytes that have to be downloaded. It is common courtesy to not waste your fellow netizens bandwidth. Throwing more hardware at a problem is a poor solution, even if you can afford it financially.

[garbanzo.bean]

i understand. i don't agree - 600kb is nothing, especially these days - but i understand.

[marc2003]

@2E7AH, why not use the board options to turn off images in posts?

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....rCP&CODE=04

all images are then replaced with clickable links.

[southisup]

I frequently use low bandwidth connections, old hardware, & mobile (cell) phones to access the internet, so I often can't successfully view something with large inline images. Here's how I just went about posting a large image on here:

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[url="http://example.com/screengrab.png"][img]http://example.com/thumbnail.png[/img][/url]
[i]1152 x 840 (57.5K)[/i]

By putting the screengrab on the uploads forum I got a thumbnail automatically. I right-clicked the thumbnail & from its properties got the thumbnail url & target (screengrab) url. I used the insert image & insert link tools to make the clickable thumbnail, & also copied the target image details from the uploads post. Finally I edited the uploads post to include a link to the thread.

It sounds a bit of a faff, but was no more so than using an external file host or my own domain.

I put this up because I searched for a simple way of doing such a thing, without success. This was the most obvious place someone else might end up looking for the same info.

Having said all that, I get the impression this thread was split from a discussion in a screen-grab thread. In which case I have to accept that huge images in such threads became the norm quite a while ago. I don't like it, but being as I rarely am interested in those threads anyway, & am probably in a minority, I'm not complaining.

[2E7AH]

what can I say: deviantart and non-deviantart users think all forums are suitable for their artistic and non-artistic expressions: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=707780

just want to keep awareness about this old problem as monitor resolutions are going up as always and some appropriate image size should be considered as allowed - not with JS resize to 640x480, but with preventing users from posting images that oversizes allowed size. Is that hard for php to check posted image size?

[Zao]

Any hacks applied to the forums must be maintained when updating the forum software. Which as far as I know is a massive pain in the behind. Not to mention that you then need to load enough of the image to parse such metadata, opening yourself for exploits.

[Robertina]

I write most of my posts offline with the help of HA's BB code page, however I fail to find the correct pattern to insert an imageshack.us thumbnail image as a clickable picture - I must do something wrong.

Could someone please provide the complete BB code, if the URLs would be

• for the thumbnail picture
• for the full size picture?

Many thanks in advance.

[ojdo]

Could someone please provide the complete BB code

Clickable small_image, linked to big_image:

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[url=big_image][img]small_image[/img][/url]

In your case:

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[url=http://img820.imageshack.us/f/quicksearch.png][img]http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/9948/quicksearch.th.png[/img][/url]

Which looks like:


Imageshack also offers the premade code directly on its page ready for quick copy'n'paste.

[Robertina]

Clickable small_image, linked to big_image:

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[url=big_image][img]small_image[/img][/url]

Thank you very much, ojdo!

Considering how often pictures from imageshack.us are used: to add this pattern to HA's BB code page could encourage and remind more members to use thumbnailed images?