Image size in topics..

Hi folks.
This is something that has been bothering me for quite some time but it hasn't been until now that I'm using my not-so-new laptop that I realized how much a PITA this is: why there are no rules regarding image size in this forum? Nobody needs huge images at all as everybody that uses a mid-sized monitor (or a small one) will get the hole forum re-sized which is a pita to follow through, and lets not talk about time to load that image; and everything could be solved just puting a max image reasonable size and adding the high-res, high-quality images using thumbnails or links..

Any way to fix it? What are your thoughts about it?

Cheers.

There are VB and BB plugins out there to resize images out there (click to enlarge) etc I dont know why a forum this big hasnt implemented one yet.

Exactly. There are many plugins/hacks/features that we would like to see them being implemented with this site. Yet, I don't even know why we don't see them here for years. :rolleyes:

I've been hinting/pushing for a plugin for a long time. C'mon, somebody put in this plugin :D

yes please add the plugin,this would make browsing so much better
here at XS.i cant stand when someone adds a giant picture and it
just ruins the page,after that everytime you look at that page you
play the scroll to the right game.

I've been waiting for this too. +1

i agree, it should have happened a long time ago

Oh please not, I love XS for being one of the few sites that doesn't resize pictures....

I hate having to click on thousands of thumbnails to get the info I want.

well they dont necessarily have to be thumbnails, but like 1024x768 maybe instead of having pics that are a full 10MP+

Don't put limitations on a site that pushes the limits. Go to Overclock.net if you want the website to only utilize 1/3 of your monitor.

The best solution I have found is to close the tab and go on to a different thread.

Just a bit of an FYI.
The last I had heard, Fugger was working on updating vBulletin, which, if we were to do any hacks/add-ons etc, would have to be re-done once the update is done. So any of those that we've discussed have been put at least partially on hold.

As for the actual image resizing, there is a hack that will re-size an image to fit your screen.
It doesn't create a thumbnail, which is annoying I agree, but it won't allow an image to stretch your screen either. So basicly, by my understanding of the hack, is it will fit the image, to your screens resolution without altering the layout of the forums, as viewed by your screen.
IMO, is the best possible alternative to any other image hack I've seen. I am pushing for that once we get vB updated.

that sounds like a good one :)
if he is going to update then i agree, just wait

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Originally Posted by BlueAqua

Don't put limitations on a site that pushes the limits. Go to Overclock.net if you want the website to only utilize 1/3 of your monitor.

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We're talking more along the line when somebody posts a 3+MP picture. Most monitors don't display 2048x1536 last I checked.

Isn't there a mod/hack that makes only the post with the big assed image need side scrolling? Leaving the rest of the thread at normal size would be awesome.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30119

or

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

Implement one, now! :P

You know what? It's a matter of laziness. It's as simple as hitting 4 (FOUR) times people's keyboards:

www.whereverthepictureisfrom.com/s800/laziness.jpg

I'm a member of many photo communities and all over the world people CAN manage and discipline themselves to do that and it works brilliantly...

Don't just wait for a plug-in, do it yourself!!!!

wtf are you talking about?

Seriously? Bold, italic and underlined "phrase" in my previous link says nothing? It's not a secret knowledge - google what "s800" before file's name will do with a picture... (actually it doesn't need to be 800 though, might be less, it was just an example)

Without:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_40L7h_SFpEw/S1...0/IMGP9137.JPG

With s800:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_40L7h_SFpEw/S1...0/IMGP9137.JPG

Simple as that. You can scale it down further...

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Originally Posted by ggdh

Seriously? Bold, italic and underlined "phrase" in my previous link says nothing? It's not a secret knowledge - google what "s800" before file's name will do with a picture... (actually it doesn't need to be 800 though, might be less, it was just an example)

Without:
[IMG_]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_40L7h_SFpEw/S1wPbuAmIEI/AAAAAAAAFFM/GxiOFH02p90/IMGP9137.JPG[/IMG]

With s800:
[IMG_]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_40L7h_SFpEw/S1wPbuAmIEI/AAAAAAAAFFM/GxiOFH02p90/s800/IMGP9137.JPG[/IMG]

Simple as that. You can scale it down further...

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Well considering I had zero idea what you were talking about (other than image sizing), yes, it did need a bit better of an explanation.
However, this time, it made sense.
Interesting, I had never heard of that before.

Thank you for sharing it... I might just start editing posts using that.

*EDIT*
Is there a way to add into the same thing to allow the image to be 'clickable' to see the full size image?
*end EDIT*

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Originally Posted by IFMU

*EDIT*
Is there a way to add into the same thing to allow the image to be 'clickable' to see the full size image?
*end EDIT*

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Yes. Do like this:

[*url="http://example.com/xs.jpg"][*img]http://example.com/thumb/xs.jpg[/img][/url]

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Originally Posted by IFMU

blah blah blah...

*EDIT*
Is there a way to add into the same thing to allow the image to be 'clickable' to see the full size image?*end EDIT*

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http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html


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Testing.. I tried it and it didn't work.

Does image shack not allow that particular feature?
Tried this image...
Direct Link: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7691/xswantsyou.gif
IMG Tags Disabled: [_img]http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7691/s200/xswantsyou.gif[/img] /IMG Tags Disabled

IMG Tagged: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7691/xswantsyou.gif /IMG Tagged

IMG Tagged and using */s200/: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7...xswantsyou.gif /IMG & /s200/


*If I understood you correctly, the number could be altered...

No image.... so is this a site restricted

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Originally Posted by BeepBeep2

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176531 with demo here: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/15625-post55.html

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Yea, I got that. That is using a hack, which as I mentioned earlier, any add on hacks or mods are on hold at minimum until we get our vB updated.
This .......

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Originally Posted by ggdh

Seriously? Bold, italic and underlined "phrase" in my previous link says nothing? It's not a secret knowledge - google what "s800" before file's name will do with a picture... (actually it doesn't need to be 800 though, might be less, it was just an example)

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Is why I asked this...

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Originally Posted by IFMU

*EDIT*
Is there a way to add into the same thing to allow the image to be 'clickable' to see the full size image?
*end EDIT*

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Originally Posted by Ashraf

Yes. Do like this:

[*url="http://example.com/xs.jpg"][*img]http://example.com/thumb/xs.jpg[/img][/url]

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So, using that, this link...
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7691/xswantsyou.gif

Put in like so...
[_url="http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7691/xswantsyou.gif"][_img]http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7691/xswantsyou.gif[/img][/url]

Should show as such...
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7691/xswantsyou.gif

Which is the full sized image and not a thumbnail/smaller image.

If I understand this stuff correctly... using those commands Ash, you need a thumbnail and the full sized image on a site, correct?

By my understanding of ggdh's post, all you do is add in /s800/ (or another number of smaller size than the actual images size) and it will show as the smaller image.

Not all sites will detect /s###, /thumb, etc. as a command to automatically resize an image. Most blog and few image hosting sites can do that.

So then the command that was posted, won't work web-wide.
Which then in turn, pretty much makes it a useless command.

Got it, thanks. :up:

This hack is a must add. :yepp:

Disable [IMG] In [QUOTE] Tags

gawd amen to that one... hate that crap too... lol

trust me, there are ALOT of hacks that I'd like to get in place... but there is NOTHING I can do with it, and even less without the vB updates

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Originally Posted by Ashraf

This hack is a must add. :yepp:

Disable [IMG] In [ QUOTE] Tags

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Agreed!

OK. I checked few different hosting servers and it is possible to use "s800" only when in files address you can find actual name o a file (example.jpg) at the very end of a address. When the site is reporting address as "www.hostingserver.com/3f84lfb92s0bjfhs" don't know what to do.

So my method is very limited. I'm using picasa though and it works just fine. I'm sick and tired of photobucket or flickr when you see "bandwidth exceeded" thumbnail or "photo was removed" instead of pic of yours pretty often.

Yes. Picasa is probably the only image hosting server that does it since all blogspots are using it. Flickr? I am not sure about that one.

Wow, it seems I wasn't the only one with those thoughts :up:

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Originally Posted by Don_Dan

Oh please not, I love XS for being one of the few sites that doesn't resize pictures....

I hate having to click on thousands of thumbnails to get the info I want.

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We are not talking about thumbnails (I hate them with anger...), but to find a reasonable limit for most of people around here. I don't know, I think something like 640-720p would be ok for most people, its annoying when somebody posts an image like 1500p while you are using a 720p screen and you have to be scrolling in all directions the hole page, which is a PITA if you use the max posts per page stuff.

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

We're talking more along the line when somebody posts a 3+MP picture. Most monitors don't display 2048x1536 last I checked.

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Exactly. Although there are many forums that resize the images automatically. But hey, resizing is not a problem at all, imageshack does it on its own and its program is really easy to use, 30 sec to resize and host an image + the topic gets a lot easier to follow.