This didn't use to happen, but for some reason, recently people are posting HUGE image files, probably the original size taken by their cameras, and even though I have a pretty fast connection (27 MBPS measured this evening), it can take 10 or 15 minutes for an image to load. It's like we've gone back to the days when we connected by a modem on a telephone line. I downloaded an image someone posted this evening, and it was 2448x3264 px, and was 2.4 MB in file size. When I resized it to a still very large 1000 px width, the file size was 360KB (i.e., 0.36 MB), DRASTICALLY smaller than the one someone posted. It would have loaded in a flash.
I don't know whether it's because the forum has never been set to automatically shrink such a huge image, and it's only recently that people are uploading such gargantuan images, or whether forum management changed how the forum software processes images, but I'm not going to wait 10 minutes for a picture to load! I'll just skip it.
Does anyone know why this is happening, and whether the forum admins can set the forum software to automatically display a reasonable size image, and maybe allow the huge image if someone clicks on it?
Theo
I don't know whether it's because the forum has never been set to automatically shrink such a huge image, and it's only recently that people are uploading such gargantuan images, or whether forum management changed how the forum software processes images, but I'm not going to wait 10 minutes for a picture to load! I'll just skip it.
Does anyone know why this is happening, and whether the forum admins can set the forum software to automatically display a reasonable size image, and maybe allow the huge image if someone clicks on it?
Theo
