rewdownunder
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Post by rewdownunder on Nov 20, 2021 11:42:28 GMT -5
I am starting to see this statement in a few posts and not seeing quoted pictures. Are WE doing something wrong and eating band width? Is there a rule I missed somewhere. Please let us know we do not want to do anything that cost the forum money or problems for the folks running the show.
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 20, 2021 12:01:59 GMT -5
There is a section for forum talk that is limited to 250 posts before you can see it. Just missed it. 
Anyway, it was brought up that it's a PITA to scroll through quotes with lots of pictures. So Tommy fixed it. You can still reference a particular picture by getting the url for it via right click and inserting it into your post. If you reply to a picture post, you must insert the image after the quote. (not inside it)
Hope that helped.
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Post by knave on Nov 20, 2021 12:23:43 GMT -5
Yeah some threads were hard to follow with so many duplicated quoted pictures.
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rewdownunder
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Post by rewdownunder on Nov 20, 2021 13:47:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the update. I have been a member for 10 years and reading long before that but just started posting photos and wanted to make sure I was not doing something incorrectly or causing someone extra work. I know it takes a considerable amount of work to keep the site running. Just a general question does the site have a limit as to how many photos can be posted in a month?
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Post by Tommy on Nov 20, 2021 14:31:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the update. I have been a member for 10 years and reading long before that but just started posting photos and wanted to make sure I was not doing something incorrectly or causing someone extra work. I know it takes a considerable amount of work to keep the site running. Just a general question does the site have a limit as to how many photos can be posted in a month? and knave have done a good job explaining it already but in a nutshell it's less about bandwidth or limiting photos as much as it is about etiquette. When someone quotes a post that has a bunch of photos, many members have expressed over the years that it is seriously annoying to have to scroll through the quoted post and see all the same photos they just saw - especially if two or three people do the same thing. This issue actually came up several years ago and the CSS fix to hide quoted images was put in place in 2017 but for some reason (probably connected to a forum update) it stopped working. Anyway, I've reinstalled it on all forum color themes and it's working at least for now. Thanks for bringing this up - It was my intention to make an announcement blurb here but it slipped my mind as so many things do these days. There is absolutely no limit on photos per post - we love a good post loaded with photos, we just don't enjoy scrolling through the same photos multiple times in the same thread. As was mentioned already, folks can still repost and ask questions about a specific photo(s) in the quoted post, all they have to do is identify the photo link(s) in question and move it outside of the quotation brackets. |
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rewdownunder
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Post by rewdownunder on Nov 20, 2021 14:38:32 GMT -5
Thank You.
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Post by stephan on Nov 24, 2021 0:41:11 GMT -5
Thanks for the update. I have been a member for 10 years and reading long before that but just started posting photos and wanted to make sure I was not doing something incorrectly or causing someone extra work. I know it takes a considerable amount of work to keep the site running. Just a general question does the site have a limit as to how many photos can be posted in a month? and knave have done a good job explaining it already but in a nutshell it's less about bandwidth or limiting photos as much as it is about etiquette. When someone quotes a post that has a bunch of photos, many members have expressed over the years that it is seriously annoying to have to scroll through the quoted post and see all the same photos they just saw - especially if two or three people do the same thing. This issue actually came up several years ago and the CSS fix to hide quoted images was put in place in 2017 but for some reason (probably connected to a forum update) it stopped working. Anyway, I've reinstalled it on all forum color themes and it's working at least for now. Thanks for bringing this up - It was my intention to make an announcement blurb here but it slipped my mind as so many things do these days. There is absolutely no limit on photos per post - we love a good post loaded with photos, we just don't enjoy scrolling through the same photos multiple times in the same thread. As was mentioned already, folks can still repost and ask questions about a specific photo(s) in the quoted post, all they have to do is identify the photo link(s) in question and move it outside of the quotation brackets. We might enjoy it if we work for the Department of Redundancy Department. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 25, 2021 23:25:34 GMT -5
rockjunquie and knave have done a good job explaining it already but in a nutshell it's less about bandwidth or limiting photos as much as it is about etiquette. When someone quotes a post that has a bunch of photos, many members have expressed over the years that it is seriously annoying to have to scroll through the quoted post and see all the same photos they just saw - especially if two or three people do the same thing. This issue actually came up several years ago and the CSS fix to hide quoted images was put in place in 2017 but for some reason (probably connected to a forum update) it stopped working. Anyway, I've reinstalled it on all forum color themes and it's working at least for now. Thanks for bringing this up - It was my intention to make an announcement blurb here but it slipped my mind as so many things do these days. There is absolutely no limit on photos per post - we love a good post loaded with photos, we just don't enjoy scrolling through the same photos multiple times in the same thread. As was mentioned already, folks can still repost and ask questions about a specific photo(s) in the quoted post, all they have to do is identify the photo link(s) in question and move it outside of the quotation brackets. We might enjoy it if we work for the Department of Redundancy Department. A little Monty Pythonishism for the day. Well done. |
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Post by Tommy on Nov 25, 2021 23:30:45 GMT -5
A little Monty Pythonishism for the day. Well done. Ahahaha that slipped right by me the first time. I did a double take at the post but moved on without getting it. |
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