Evening all 

Just pondering (as you do) about the idea that here at SimV we are still limited to the 500kb per post and 800 x 600 screenies, now, with so many people on broadband, do you think it is time to do away with this old convention?

I understand that there are a few people remaining on these forums still on dial-up, but surely the sheer majority are on highspeed broadband, or at least DSL/ADSL.

Maybe as a courtesy people could put something along the lines of (56K WARNING) in the first few lines of the post, so that people on dial-up will know it will be a large post.

Is this not a case of a Minority holding up the Majority?

All the best,
Alex

One thing to remember is what kind of load would larger threads have on the forum and servers though.  Our personal broadband connection might have no problem with it...but would it slow the forum down a lot on the server end...only Pete would know that.

Now, assuming that it would not...I agree that 1MB threads (rather than the current 500kb) would be nice.  However, if anything was to change I would like to see the individual image size upped.  What I mean is, keep 800x600 (to prevent scroll bars) but allow...say 150kb images instead of 100kb.  This may not seem like much, but when I want to post photos I have taken at airshows or on trips or something, I find many of my photos are in the 115-125kb range when resized to 800x600...I end up posting images that are 600x450 to get under the 100kb rule.  Although it isn't that big of a deal (and I don't post photos that often anyway) it would be nice to post pictures as large as possible (so, 800x600).

However, the last thing I want to do is slow the forum down.  So, if that would happen...things should stay as they are (since it still works well as it is).

Please don't make the images bigger. I already have to scroll to the right a little bit to see the righthand side of the images......

Crash (having a 15" screen $uck$)

There is a per thread limit ........ 500kb.

The one thing about these forums is that the overall quality of the screen shots is the best I've seen, edited or not.

Why?...... because of the limits.

eno wrote on Oct 1^st, 2007 at 5:10pm:


Ha ha alright caught out 

What I meant to say was no single shot limit, simply a per-thread limit. So if someone does an awesome composite, they could upload that shot alone, whether it be 100k or 700k. 

Ashar wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2007 at 10:31pm:


I have to agree with Eno. There are many great screenshots to be seen here that are well within the current limits. I think it is also a challenge to make the best you can within those limits. Making the limits bigger doesn't mean that the shots will get better.

And Ashar, don't you think the mods already have enough to do?

Crash