I see this as fairly pointless......If I know how many pictures I want in a thread, I do the maths and work out what size each has to be before compressing them to that size. Normally this is done aiming for a certain size but with some shots higher and some lower so it can balance out (some shots compress well etc)

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[cough]abolish600klimit[/cough]

Mazza wrote on Oct 7^th, 2008 at 2:01am:

SSSSHHHHHHH.
Yes I would like a warning but it is very easy to round the sizes of your images.

I think the 600K limit is useless, and I walk past it anyway.

It changes nothing if I put 800K in one topic, or make two 400K topics.

Meck wrote on Oct 14^th, 2008 at 11:55am:


Believe it or not, not everyone has high speed internet. If you've had it for years and years, you may take it for granted. It wasn't untill earlier this year when I moved to the city did I get high speed internet. Before that, I was on slow 26k dialup. Normal forum pages were slow, and it took several minutes to load a thread with 500kb worth of images in it.

But it also keeps honest people accountable and posts in check, otherwise people would be needlessly posting large images

keep the 600K limit, its not our fault if people want to follow every rule. besides its a simple way to clean out the cyber gene pool

ozzy72 wrote on Jan 16^th, 2009 at 5:20am:


Took awhile to respond eh?

Mazza wrote on Jan 16^th, 2009 at 5:27am:



It's been observed for quite some time now, but we have turned a blind eye to keep the members happy.  Now they want to rub it in our face and brag that they just ignore it?  Personally I'm insulted, we do our best to make sure EVERYONE (including dial up users) get the full experience.  The reason these rules are in place is so that ANYONE can come and enjoy the site, not just broadband users.

I'm rather disappointed after reading some of these posts, SimV is a great family of SimPilots, but there seems to be a few black sheep...

ozzy72 wrote on Jan 16^th, 2009 at 5:20am:


What's better, waiting 1 minute for a page with six shots to load, or spend 1 1/2 - 2 minutes on loading two pages with 3 shots?

Just saying...

better idea, two versions of the site, one for high bandwidth, and one for low bandwidth with text only and pics as links. This would allow for the best of both worlds, and it would allow for users with slow connections to load in the text only, speeding up their experience in general, as they don't have to worry about loading pics on top of the page, and one for people with broadband which can load all they want. This way, if you can't handle one because of  your internet connection, you just select the other. This would also seriously help those on mobiles that want to read the forums while on their phones (most carriers seriously limit your mobile bandwidth, and as such, it's helpful to not have to load all those images in general)

while I will obey the rules, and I avoid breaking them, I feel that this would be the better option for everyone.