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From which images hosts does the forum allow embedding of images?


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Thank you Andy. Unfortunately images from my own site don't work, but just show up as links (and I'm linking to the image address directly).

 

The reason for my question is that sometimes I don't want to upload images to my Flickr in order to link to embed them. At other fora postimg.org works but not here. Perhaps there are other such sites that work?

 

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philip

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I agree, that is important and the permitted size is definitely big enough for posting in the forum.

 

I see now that attached images will show as the size they are. Has this changed? I seem to remember attached images were much smaller than their actual size. That's why I haven't used this function.

 

And I now notice that one can include attached images inline (i.e. without the attachment frame showing) in the post by using the ATTACH tags, like below. I didn't know this.

 

Thanks for your help

Philip

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

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Two things have changed in the last few years.

 

The forum used to shrink images which did not conform to the limits. It now just refuses to upload the image.

 

The limits have been adjusted. You now can upload larger pictures.

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Tell that to the ISP of the people with slow and expensive connections.

 

There are indeed still places on earth where this is an issue. You don't have to believe me.

 

Hard cases make bad law

 

The allowable dimensions could be increased without increasing the allowable file size.

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It's 2014

Which means that there are a not inconsiderable number of people on Inmarsat or Globalstar, etc, not to mention Iridium, meaning slow, long latency and above all, expensive.

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Which means that there are a not inconsiderable number of people on Inmarsat or Globalstar, etc, not to mention Iridium, meaning slow, long latency and above all, expensive.

 

 

Thanks again for all the replies and as I said for teaching me something new about how to use the forum. I don't personally find the image dimension and size restrictions limiting for the purposes of the forum.

 

I would be rather surprised, however, and I'm sure the administrator could clarify as necessary, if the fact that there are internet users, and even forum members, across the globe on satellite and similar connections would have had any impact at all on the decision regarding permitted image size and ditto dimensions. My guess is this had more/only to do with predominantly used/available screen resolutions and, for uploaded images, server, connection and storage burdens.

 

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I would be rather surprised, however, and I'm sure the administrator could clarify as necessary, if the fact that there are internet users, and even forum members, across the globe on satellite and similar connections would have had any impact at all on the decision regarding permitted image size and ditto dimensions.

 

It is my understanding that this is, indeed, the case. You don't have to look as far as the South Pole, either, to find people with slow or expensive connections, or both. As a matter of course, there is an increasing number of people accessing the forum through mobile devices where both bandwidth and quotas are a bit of an issue as well.

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Which means that there are a not inconsiderable number of people on Inmarsat or Globalstar, etc, not to mention Iridium, meaning slow, long latency and above all, expensive.

 

Not inconsiderable is somewhat vague.

 

Do you have any facts you can share? Is it known what proportion of this site’s visitors use these connection methods?

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The exact number is irrelevant. We aim to keep the site accessible to everybody.

The point is that large areas of the world are not like Western Europe, parts of the USA or Eastern Asia with universal access to high-speed Internet and 4G.

 

 

To get back to the original question:

Here is the relevant thread:

 

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/about-leica-forum/174303-new-rule-about-linking-external-images.html#post1658432

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