Hey all, I've been thinking recently about the rules in regards to screenshot uploading, posting, and linking, and I totally agree with and (mostly) understand them.  Since I bought FSX, I have been taking screenshots that I would like to share, but they are all absolutely huge, so they require compressing beyond recognition to fit the requirements to be posted here.  So I was thinking, would it be all right to upload the shots somewhere like photobucket or something, then use a hyperlink with a thumbnail that was uploaded here as the link itself, so you would have a small thumbnail of your shot, then have the thumbnail be the link to photobucket (or wherever) just like if I were to post www.simviation.com as a link to SimV?

For example: (click it)



Please, if this does break the rules, please feel free to delete it, I was just trying to illustrate my point.

Thanks.

Here's the image resized to 800 pixels in irfanview



Not sure what the problem is .. 80K & I still recognise it ...

Yes - it is outside the rules. Why? Because if we allow hosting on other sites - those sites are outside our control & we could have a situation where the forums would be peppered with little red x's.

It's like files - if we don't have the base file for a repaint I generally don't post the repaint. It's called reliability.

/\ Yep, Hagars' got it, but Photobucket only compresses images that are over 1 MB in size, which is quite an improvement in quality and size when compared to the 100 kB limit we have now.