More than a month and no reply from the staff? I'm disappointed...

Any progress on this front? The better part of a decade has passed since the last post.

Extremely large images makes the reading of certain threads very difficult, especially food & menu threads,
and also screenshots from phones, which tend to produce very tall images.

PSA for those posting photos …

after clicking “Upload” and confirming that the photos rendered properly, click “Source”

most normal landscape-format pix will be approx 2000x1540; change that to something like 800x600

No, as of now there isn't any work being done on a resizing tool. Personally, I agree, but I feel like the solution would just be to link to a photo gallery they've made in their profile or just stop uploading, y'know, like 25 photos to a single post.

It should also be probably clarified that when this thread started, I didn't work here.

Thanks for the responses. I think jrl767 in the post preceding yours adverted to the existence of a resizing tool, but that may not be the solution, as it depends on posters doing the right thing, and they may not even realise that there is a need to do so, depending on the device through which they are reading the threads. My impression is that large pictures are most problematic when reading the forum on a desktop computer, and, in my case, the first time I posted a picture, I was myself astonished by how large it turned out.

What would be more useful would be the possibility of having a picture resized on the fly depending on the reader’s preference (and not the poster’s), or even simply to set a fixed maximum or standard size, as online editions of newspapers do, perhaps with the possibility of clicking on the picture to view it at full resolution if so desired. It might also be beneficial to automatically remove images when posts are quoted, as there have been very few threads I have seen where it is necessary to quote an image, in which case a link to the image can instead be supplied.

exceptionally true, but I seriously doubt that sort of forum management software functionality is on the IT department radar

again, user awareness is the issue here

The IT department? I would have thought that FT would use some off-the-shelf forum management software, rather than developing it’s own.

At any rate, I don’t think it is entirely fair to blame ‘user awareness’, because, the first time I posted an image, I had no idea that it would turn out so extraordinarily large, because there was no warning that it would be so, and I just trusted the forum to display my image at an appropriate size. And, in any case, there is no facility to change the size of an image (apart from directly editing the source), and this is inconvenient for anyone posting from a phone, which is in many cases the source of the problem.