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Jerry Harris · 10-08-2002, 05:52 PM

On the Classified Ad forum, there are at present two topics right next to each other : Luke's "Thor Refinished 6" Shooter" and Thor's "Thor Rework Lugers Lugers - Rust Blued and Strawed Parts." They illustrate two extremes of photo management.

Luke has two images of 172K and 176K, both within the Rennlist 180K upload limit. They would open quickly, but Luke is conservative -- he provides pointer links to them and they use up zero time unless the user chooses to look at them.

Thor has several large, beautiful images in the megabyte range (for example, the 1921 DWM left profile photo is a 976K file). They come up when the topic is selected and the user has no choice in the matter. The downside of this on my 56K bps dialup connection is that the topic takes 12 minutes to show anything on screen and 15 minutes to load completely. Thor's images were well worth waiting for, but could have been managed in a way providing more options to the user.

Two questions:

1. How do users get around the 180K Rennlist upload limit?

2. Wouldn't it be good forum policy to enforce the limit for direct uploads, and require larger files to have pointers (like Luke's) so the user gets something on screen quickly and can choose which pictures to open?

10-08-2002, 05:52 PM	#1
Jerry Harris User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 64 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Photo Management On the Classified Ad forum, there are at present two topics right next to each other : Luke's "Thor Refinished 6" Shooter" and Thor's "Thor Rework Lugers Lugers - Rust Blued and Strawed Parts." They illustrate two extremes of photo management. Luke has two images of 172K and 176K, both within the Rennlist 180K upload limit. They would open quickly, but Luke is conservative -- he provides pointer links to them and they use up zero time unless the user chooses to look at them. Thor has several large, beautiful images in the megabyte range (for example, the 1921 DWM left profile photo is a 976K file). They come up when the topic is selected and the user has no choice in the matter. The downside of this on my 56K bps dialup connection is that the topic takes 12 minutes to show anything on screen and 15 minutes to load completely. Thor's images were well worth waiting for, but could have been managed in a way providing more options to the user. Two questions: 1. How do users get around the 180K Rennlist upload limit? 2. Wouldn't it be good forum policy to enforce the limit for direct uploads, and require larger files to have pointers (like Luke's) so the user gets something on screen quickly and can choose which pictures to open?