@Spark: Bladeforums NEEDS to resize images internally. How about it?

[SharpByCoop]

Whenever I come to this forum 1/3 of the posts are all about image hosting or resizing upload problems.

Basic non-paying members: Work outside of Bladeforums and use hosting. For the rest of us who pay....

EVERY Modern cell phone camera takes clear images that are too large. I get that.

Server hosting is measured in Gigabytes and images are HUGE compared to text.

You mentioned a program or an app that can handle this in the next upgrade? According to THIS POST on the Xenforo support forum you already have that capability?

20gb images can automatically be resized down to <500kb? Heaven on earth....

And if the settings alone can't be tweaked, what can we do to get you to apply this or another solution?

IG and Facebook are competitors. Face it. For the love of this forum, and the continued survival, let's DO this.

Coming from one of the MOST appreciative members on knife visuals.

How can WE help? A serious question.

 

[joeradza]

SharpByCoop
Although I totally agree with you especially the point that BladeForums' competition all have the ability to internally resize photos I don't find it to be one of the most important features. I automatically resize all the knife photos that I may eventually use and store them in a separate folder. It may be an extra step but it's not one that deters me. And don't forget how Facebook's resizing is very destructive.

 

[Spark]

That's Xenforo 2, we're on 1.5. We'll be upgrading soon.

 

[SharpByCoop]

Spark Got it. Thank you. It all seemed too easy, and it WILL be.

Thanks for the note. This will be an important improvement.

 

[Josh K]

Aside from the resizing (Coop, you are okay with unknown compression being applied to an upload?), what are the upload limits? I seem to find random “image to large” warnings. Sometimes my 2048px exports are fine. Sometimes I need to run a 1024px export. Sometimes Lightroom exports are fine while Photos exports are too large, other times the reverse.

Maybe photo upload restrictions can apply to membership level?

 

[SharpByCoop]

I'm less interested in upper quality than I am with seeing actual images. This is the hurdle for many.

Yeah, Facebook for instance, isn't upper quality. But they resize EVERYTHING on the fly.

If members could all post directly from a cell phone or PC without the need for resizing, that would be terrific. Value added.

I get it. I have resized for 15+ years to make images forum friendly. I will continue to resize for IG and here. But I'm tired of seeing the struggles. Now it's time for the forum to do that. Automate is an update away.

BTW: Filesize has ALWAYS been related to content: Shoot a knife on a white background, then shoot it on a towel.

White will be 700kb and the towel will be 4mb. Same shot. JPEG processing too much information.

Josh, that may be why you get varying acceptances.

I keep seeing: "Go to Imgur, go to Imgur". Right. That's what they all said about Photobucket ten years ago. HAHA~! I'm staying wayy clear of that. Basic members will have to. But the paid member will have their images on the fly in permanence.

That's my wish.

 

[WValtakis]

I keep seeing: "Go to Imgur, go to Imgur". Right. That's what they all said about Photobucket ten years ago.

This cannot be emphasized enough, Photobucket completely screwed me and I paid up for the last two years. Now even my current paid tier isn't enough and they want me to upgrade again

 

[Josh K]

I keep seeing: "Go to Imgur, go to Imgur". Right. That's what they all said about Photobucket ten years ago. HAHA~! I'm staying wayy clear of that. Basic members will have to. But the paid member will have their images on the fly in permanence.

Yeah, I agree. I only use imgur as a last resort, and generally think it's healthier to have the site (BF) host to prevent another Photobucket fiasco.

And I've checked the file sizes. Or at least I think I have. I recently did four exports to get a ~900kB image down to ~340kB to upload here. Separately from the “resize everything on the fly during upload” I would like to see BF have a clear image size guidelines. Lightroom can automatically bin to a given file size and remove a lot of this complexity for me.

 

[tiguy7]

I'm less interested in upper quality than I am with seeing actual images. This is the hurdle for many.

Yeah, Facebook for instance, isn't upper quality. But they resize EVERYTHING on the fly.

If members could all post directly from a cell phone or PC without the need for resizing, that would be terrific. Value added.
AMEN!

I get it. I have resized for 15+ years to make images forum friendly. I will continue to resize for IG and here. But I'm tired of seeing the struggles. Now it's time for the forum to do that. Automate is an update away.

BTW: Filesize has ALWAYS been related to content: Shoot a knife on a white background, then shoot it on a towel.

White will be 700kb and the towel will be 4mb. Same shot. JPEG processing too much information.

Josh, that may be why you get varying acceptances.

I keep seeing: "Go to Imgur, go to Imgur". Right. That's what they all said about Photobucket ten years ago. HAHA~! I'm staying wayy clear of that. Basic members will have to. But the paid member will have their images on the fly in permanence.

That's my wish.

 

[Spark]

Y'all have uploaded 50gb of images in the last year. With XF2 it's going to be even worse if we allow ppl to upload vid

 

[Josh K]

Y'all have uploaded 50gb of images in the last year. With XF2 it's going to be even worse if we allow ppl to upload vid

50GB doesn't sound like a lot. I don't think videos are necessary (yet), let YouTube corner that market. Is the driver here storage or bandwidth?

 

[Spark]

It doesn't sound like a lot on a home pc or a phone. It's quite a bit in a virtual environment with backups.

 

[mqqn]

It doesn't sound like a lot on a home pc or a phone. It's quite a bit in a virtual environment with backups.

And 4000 users online.....

best

mqqn

 

[Josh K]

It doesn't sound like a lot on a home pc or a phone. It's quite a bit in a virtual environment with backups.

S3 is $0.023/GB storage. I wouldn’t recommend writing uploads to disk and retaining backups of them.