Thank you for that Tweek, my point exactly!! Unless each screenshot title is labled with it res', I won't even bother opening to see if I suspect that they may be 1024x768 and too big to see. Bye, bye, screenshot forums!

61_OTU wrote on Jan 17^th, 2008 at 3:47pm:

If that's the case, why increase it? Surely it would be better to have lovely clear uncompressed 800x600 shot's than 1024x768 ones that still need compressing due to their size?

Pete, great to hear that you are aware that this is indeed a problem and that you are looking into it, however, why not wait until a solution is found? This issue was raised when the last upgrade took place and nothing has been done so I'm not holding my breath this time. Before that, I used to do a lot in the SS sections but have found myself useing other sites to display and look at pictures since.

By just going ahead with this increase (which has already been done I notice), you are risking alienating many people like myself and Tweek from the SS forums. By the time it is eventualy fixed, you'll have lost many contributers.

What I really don't get though is the forum software itself. The version before last could display them no problem, and i'm sure could have gone to 1024x768 as well as there was no fixed window. I'm sure most of us would rather have full sized pictures than a few pretty buttons and an 'RSS' link. This is all about style over substance.

If, for some reason, it's not possible to revert to the last version that worked, surely it would be best to keep the max picture size to 800 wide until a proper solution can be found?

No, all I had to do was scroll accross so the pic filled the screen (the WHOLE pic not just a bit of it like it would appear here) and then was able to see the whole thing at once by scrolling down the entire set. Very nice pics they are too BTW! The same pics posted here would have to be scrolled accross, which is the problem.

No one is threatening to leave or having any similar hissy fits, i'm just saying that many will no longer feel inclined to participate in the screenshot forums like they once did if 1024x768 pics start to become popular. The pics posted in the link above would be ruined on SimV for many as we wouldn't be able to see the whole pic at once, ruining the great landscape effect.

I've upped my res and I still need to scroll!  I think it must be something to do with the forums as I posted the pics on the UKAR forum and I don't need to scroll there. Ah well, maybe I'll post in 800x600 and link to hi-res ones. 

Do they???  Woops! 

Here's the other BIG problem here, not only do they need to be scrolled but you have to scroll the WHOLE LOT at once! Therefore, to see the first few pics of a series, you have to scroll to the end of the post, scroll the bar over, scroll back up to the top to actualy see it and then scroll back down to scroll them over for pic #2!!

Sorry, Dave, Pete, etc. This is NOT acceptable. How can you justify this?

simonmd wrote on Jan 20^th, 2008 at 9:17am:


If you have a clickable scroll mouse then clicking on the scroll wheel should bring up a scroll icon. See the little grey circle on the picture below



Moving the cursor right and left of this scroll icon will allow you to scroll a window without scrolling down to the scroll bar at the bottom of the post

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I fail to see how you can criticise a free site so strongly. If you were paying for a service, then fine, but this is all provided by Pete free of charge. I think that anyone wanting a different format should offer to finance and administer it themselves   

Thank you '6', that's a great tip!

To the others that still don't think this is a problem and would like to see large pics on their big monitors, how selfish are you?

SimV should be run for the benifit of ALL members, not just a select few. Sure if SimV had forum software that was compatible with large pictures on any res', then increasing the size would just be a matter of debate for those on dial-up. Even then, they can still see the pics but would just have to wait longer for them to load.

The point that a lot of you that DON'T have this problem seem to be missing is, WHY increase the size of pics on a forum that cannot display the ones it already has?

To go ahead as has been done and basicaly shut out anyone who can't afford a large screen or who needs a low res so they can read text is not what I expected from SimV.