800pixel limit for screenshots in forum posts?

[jack_norton]

Was wondering if was possible to allow image attachment larger than 800px? seems a very low limit to me. I mean I can understand if I upload the image to reduce costs, but even if I link images from twitter/tumblr and so on, seems a bit too much
Thanks

[papillon]

It screws up the display of posts for people whose browsers aren't set super-wide. Post a thumbnail and a followable link tot he fullsize!

[jack_norton]

Awwwww but ME LAZY!! well, I'll have to use imgur then

[pwisaguacate]

Huh? I was pretty sure larger images have been attached before...

EDIT: Oh, I'm guessing you meant directly sticking an image onto the post via [ img ] tags.

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(I'm definitely not going to try that with above image.)

EDIT2: Yep, what Donmai said; [ img ] tagged images are limited.

[Donmai]

Actually you can attach larger images, but if you want to use IMG tags, then you will face the 800 pixels limit.

[lemonscent]

Huh? I was pretty sure larger images have been attached before...

EDIT: Oh, I'm guessing you meant directly sticking an image onto the post via [ img ] tags.

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(I'm definitely not going to try that with above image.)

EDIT2: Yep, what Donmai said; [ img ] tagged images are limited.

o__o;; That picture/collagething is amazing lol. Did you make that?

[pwisaguacate]

o__o;; That picture/collagething is amazing lol. Did you make that?

Yes I wish! I took it from Danbooru. It's three years old; hopefully somebody will take much larger sample and rerun the algorithm (whatever you call it) to reduce the number of duplicate tiles someday.

[Tempus]

It screws up the display of posts for people whose browsers aren't set super-wide. Post a thumbnail and a followable link tot he fullsize!

Not necessarily. It's a very simple matter to set images to auto-resize according to post width. I just did it on a forum I set up a week ago.

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.content img {
    max-width:100%;
}

That's what I added to the stylesheet for the forum. Then I set the maximum allowed width a bit higher, something like 1920px. That might be a bit high for a forum like this where there's threads with images every post, but I agree it's a real pain in the butt to have to create 800px wide versions of an image. It's not like the images are being uploaded to the site. If anything, having a low width setting encourages more attachments.

[PyTom]

The images are being downloaded, though - what worries me is that allowing huge images inline would hurt people browsing the forum, especially when those people are on mobile connections.

[pwisaguacate]

Well, I guess we could set max-width to 800 (and maybe max-height to 1600*); then restrict actual dimension area to 2,073,600 pixels (1920x1080px/1080x1920px) similar to what Tempus said.

*I noticed that height currently isn't restricted, though it's not a problem here.

[jack_norton]

Well I wasn't suggesting to allow 2048px wide image either, but at least 1024px wide I think should be safe

[Tempus]

The images are being downloaded, though - what worries me is that allowing huge images inline would hurt people browsing the forum, especially when those people are on mobile connections.

I hear you, I did think of that; I have no real solution for mobile devices regarding the download problem. I'd wager that not too many people visit the image heavy threads on a mobile device if that's a problem though. It's also possible to inefficiently save a 800 x 600 image so that it's larger than a 1920 x 1080 one. (Not that I'm advocating a 1920px allowance!) But maybe an image file size restriction would be more appropriate than a image width one.

Edit: it'd actually make the most sense to restrict image file type -- I took the first (inline, not attached) PNG I found in the Art Dumpage! thread and doubled its dimensions then re-saved it as a high quality JPEG and it was still a smaller file than the original PNG; keeping its original dimensions and saving as a JPEG reduced the file size by around 66%. As a general rule of thumb, PNG is almost always the worst choice of file type for art when posting on forums (out of JPEG and PNG, that is).

Well, I guess we could set max-width to 800 (and maybe max-height to 1600*); then restrict actual dimension area to 2,073,600 pixels (1920x1080px/1080x1920px) similar to what Tempus said.

That wouldn't work. The CSS I posted styles the image, it doesn't alter it. Even though the image would appear to be 800px wide, it's just the browser resizing the full image which is still loaded. The only way to upload a large image and have it loaded as 800px wide would be for the offsite image to be saved on the lemmasoft server, resized and saved again to be presented in the user's post. Which would no longer make it an offsite image, of course.

*I noticed that height currently isn't restricted, though it's not a problem here.

Maybe it's a solution. We could all rotate our wide images 90 degrees and then turn our screens sideways ^.^

[jack_norton]

Yes an alternative would be to limit by size in kb, rather than dimensions (if that css trick automatically rescale them).