I sometimes regret mentioning filesize figures at all in the faqI just pulled those figures out of my ass at the time of writing, although there was a general consensus on the board at the time of what was acceptable.
I only mentioned it in the faq as an attempt to get people to think about optimisation when making their images. Does your pic really need to be a 120KB jpg, or could you make it a 20KB gif? That kind of thing.
Instead I seem to have created some kind of cult of filesize nazis who don't understand the point of the limits and post 250KB animations that point out someone else's post is 5KB too big.
I think a rigid filesize limit is a bad idea, because I have seen some fantastic stuff that is maybe 260KB. it would make the board a worse place if all that had to be linked.
I am not so keen on increased limits either. Animated gifs are quite a limited format - if you want to go much over 250KB, then you are probably better off making it a flash movie, or posting it on Youtube where you can have much better quality and add music or sound effects too.
(I only mentioned it in the faq as an attempt to get people to think about optimisation when making their images. Does your pic really need to be a 120KB jpg, or could you make it a 20KB gif? That kind of thing.
Instead I seem to have created some kind of cult of filesize nazis who don't understand the point of the limits and post 250KB animations that point out someone else's post is 5KB too big.
I think a rigid filesize limit is a bad idea, because I have seen some fantastic stuff that is maybe 260KB. it would make the board a worse place if all that had to be linked.
I am not so keen on increased limits either. Animated gifs are quite a limited format - if you want to go much over 250KB, then you are probably better off making it a flash movie, or posting it on Youtube where you can have much better quality and add music or sound effects too.
Mystery_Bob,
Wed 21 May 2008, 2:02,
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I take all that on boardas you argue it sensibly. Personally it does not matter to me, I have 20MB cable ( soon to be 50MB ) with no transfer limit. I do know that there are many, many others who are not so fortunate.
I think filesize, no matter how much a bugbear could and should be addressed being as it came about in a time when ISP pipelines were much smaller and we all had less space to fight for but don't think I'm all abot me " I can download 5MB in 10 seconds so fuck you all ".
I just think that maybe still images could be allowed to be bigger by 50% in data ( but not pixel size, that drives me nuts, no need to make it massive, just thumb it ) and anims could be allowed to be up to 400kb just for that extra bit of data.
It's just me rabbiting on but I'm sure a discussion could maybe open up around this area?
I still think that the issue of personal and vindictive abuse is washed over and there will come a time that you will be required to address this because the law already requires that you do, just that nobody presses it. ( and the last person I know who tried was banned )
Anyway Bob, n'night, I don't mean to rock the boat, I like chats like this.
(I think filesize, no matter how much a bugbear could and should be addressed being as it came about in a time when ISP pipelines were much smaller and we all had less space to fight for but don't think I'm all abot me " I can download 5MB in 10 seconds so fuck you all ".
I just think that maybe still images could be allowed to be bigger by 50% in data ( but not pixel size, that drives me nuts, no need to make it massive, just thumb it ) and anims could be allowed to be up to 400kb just for that extra bit of data.
It's just me rabbiting on but I'm sure a discussion could maybe open up around this area?
I still think that the issue of personal and vindictive abuse is washed over and there will come a time that you will be required to address this because the law already requires that you do, just that nobody presses it. ( and the last person I know who tried was banned )
Anyway Bob, n'night, I don't mean to rock the boat, I like chats like this.
Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Wed 21 May 2008, 2:12,
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