Image width [maximum image size posting solution]
 

I realize this is an old thread and I'm not quite sure where to post this, so please forgive me if it's in the wrong place.

Is it possible for The Powers That Be to set the FlyerTalk software to specify a maximum width of the images posted? Every so often someone posts a huge image and it distorts the forum width, making it difficult to read.

I've set up forums using a different software that allowed this. I'd be surprised if it couldn't be done with IBB...

Hi there. Agree w/ you. You might want to post in the technical issues forum, as this is something IB could correct (I think).

Cheers.

Already addressed, as of now they can't... :eek:

Thanks Sharon, I'll head over there.


ETA: Sorry oliver2002, I didn't see your comment before I posted. Thanks.

Is that recent? Because there was a # of images posted in the Marriott forum & even the person who posted them asked for help in trying to make them smaller, and that was just last week.

Cheers.

Sometime in Winter 12/13. The fix to be installed is something like this:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=125500

The Admin are not comfortable with that pending review.

I agree. It's extremely annoying when someone posts a wider than normal image, usually for nom real reason. IMO is is the biggest reason not to allow images to be poster.

This would be the product to install to address the auto resizing limits.

Issue being is that it loads a JS library that will increase page size just a tad. We can review implementation again and install if the consensus is towards having an auto-resize.

An auto resize would be nice, or if there's the capability, have a "limit" on width somehow.

Proposed functionality is as follows:

- When viewing a thread (desktop) you will see "medium sized" images that "fits into the thread" always
- A small notification appears below image
- Notification indicates that a "bigger version of this image is available"
- You click image to "view full size"

That's how I've seen it work on other message boards, and I like that.

+1!

No, "there" has come to you! :D

After a judicious application of the http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ons/report.gif ("Alert a moderator to this post") button to ask moderators to consider a move to Technical Support and Feedback Forum, the thread has moved here and merged with the new one with a title extension for member convenience.

JDiver
senior moderator

Thanks JDiver -- I never get over to this part of "town" (FT) and felt a little lost! Appreciate the assist :)

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but what happened with this proposal? I believe it will be a nice feature to implement.

(Disclaimer: I had a post which was edited by a mod because the pictures were very big. Despite my reply for another poster, I agree big pictures are annoying, but in other hands, if I'd want to post a link, I would have done it by myself.)

And I saw at several threads big pictures. I don't know if my post was reported, but it seems to be an inconsistent behavior from the staff editing some posts with big pictures, but allowing others.

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.