New image size limits
 

Due to complaints from users with slower connections (ie. dialup) I have lowered the limit on uploaded images. You may now only upload images that are 225pixels x 225pixels or less, and are smaller than 50K.

In other words, the images you upload must now be smaller.

Please let me know (via the poll, or post a msg) how you feel about this.

Also, for those of you with slow connections, you should really reduce the number of messages that display in thread view and view posts. This will DRAMATICALLY speed up your pages loading.
[list=1][*]Go to "BB Profile" [*]click on "Edit Options"[*]Scroll down to the "Thread View Options" section[*]Change "Default Posts per Thread:" to 10 (or maybe even 5)[/list=1]

That's a cool poll with graphs and all, the clarity of the pics decreases when shrunk down, but I'm no photoshop expert, lets get some "how to" on shrinking them clearly, from people of the board that know, if (225 x 225) is the direction we need to go in the future.

I'm on a dial-up from home and it not the pictures in the threads that I mind waiting for, it all the other stuff on the left side of the page that takes too long everytime I go to another page. The page always pops right up but then it takes another 30 sec+ to load the ads and the links on the left.

I say keep the pictures in the threads at 450 or whatever they were and go to a frames format for the pages so they dont have to load up everytime I goto another page.
Does that make sense?

just my .02

I like the larger image sizes as well. Other than when the changeover was made I have not experienced any problems loading the pages

Boy is it a pain in the ass to resize a photo so that it fits. I'm with too old, 450x450 sounds good to me.

Hey RonP, It's even worse trying to make my avatar 50x50:D :D :D

I use dial up and it is not that slow. It doesn't take any longer than loading pics from any other site. 450 x 450 is fine and still gives a decent pic size.

I would prefer to see a little icon or thumbnail...then you just click and see the pic! That way, page loads fast and pics are only a click away!

It is my understanding that the program (OSO code) can be written to resize the photo's automatically, so the user shouldn't have to worry about sizing the actual photo's. But, I would actually prefer to see a small thumbnail and have the pages load faster. That was, in my opinion, the fun part of this board, being able to jump around a read different views and opinions very quickly without long periods of waiting. I understand that the OSO owners must make money with advertising and that is a neccessity, but all the other things need to be separated or minimized from the rest.
Just my two cents.

The ultimate "SOLUTION" is to have a button in ones profile that says

I AM A HILLBILLY WITH A 12MHZ COMPUTER AND A MODEM... YES/NO

If they click it on... it will not display ANY IMAGES...

While the rest of us however... see full size images, at any size we like...

Check out another very popular board, like LABUSAS.ORG and you will see you can post a 1024x768 image there... in fact AS MANY AS YOU WANT...

nobody *****es... its a take it or leave it proposition...

by the way, WHAT THE HELLS the point of having images if they are so small you cant see them anyway..

DO IT RIGHT, OR DONT BOTHER!

thanks

Nick

I'm with Nick!

Over the years I have been on some very sophisticated boards and whenever
there is change people have to get used to it. Don't hold back the people who are buying and using better equipment. I have never seen a board w/ ads on one side...shrinking the size of the work space or making you scroll right to see every post.

MODS........you know aswell as I do.....the users should not have to adjust their settings to view this board. I know your going to tweak it to work better and that is probably the main thing wrong here. Hell pop up's beat that crap on the left.

PS.....turn on the [img] code and let'em run wild......beats attaching a file.

This is a great board it just needs some work, thanks guys.

Bring on the data. I'm running a P4 at 1.8 mgz(sp?) with a cable modem. Even my laptop is a PIII at 800 mgz.

If your gonna have photos, do it right. The photo of my dog needed to be shrunk 5 times before I got to a size small enough for it to load. That was the larges photo it would take.

Keep it 450 Or Bigger ,I've had no problem with the new board its great .As they say a picture is worth a 1000 words:D

Nice FISHBOWL Nickslick!:D :D :D

Keep them at 450 and and place all your ads on the HOMEPAGE! That will speed things up and make it easier on the eyes.

I agree, leave the pic size the current size.

I also agree that it is not the pictures in the thread that are causing the problem, it is all the pictures on the left side of the screen that bog everything down.

I'm in favor of the size limit. Keep up the great work.

- jeff