I run a fairly large industry Bulletin Board and probably half the 500,000 posts contain images, and I enabled images from day #1 as in some threads it really adds to the dept of the info offered.

Like FT they are all hosted by 3rd party sites.

99% of members there use the free www.photobucket.com server to do that.

If FT decides on 800 x 600 pixels max dimension it is a dead simple key-stoke on the Admin software to ensure that NOTHING larger than that size can be posted. The post gives users an error message the image exceeds the allowed size.

We originally did try a hack where the software "choked" everything down to 800 x 600 max that was larger to start with.

That worked until we updated to the new software update, and that gave Mods about 500 hours of unpaid work to go and manually alter all image codes.

800 x 600 is a standard photobucket settings option for folks to choose, that their images then never exceed.

Max size of images allowed to be posted is a standard Admin option to amend and will take 30 seconds for HOM to key-in on control panel.

Solution to the issue raised by Dovster.

I used to allow photos with a max of 1024 pixels but changed it at Xmas to be 800 pixels as some found that too wide - 800 is this size: