Why the fuck do people post pictures that are like 152537493635242 pixels wide? Aside of the two people that have a damned 86” monitor running 4K definition, it causes the rest of us feeble tablet dwellers to side scroll.

Have you ever tried to read an interesting post when you have to sidescroll every goddamn line? Fucking hell, it’s enough to make one mad.

There was a really interesting article about a really fast car. I wanted to read it, as it was super interesting to me. I had to quote the reply so it would get to my screen size and was readable.

Fuck, it pisses me off to the point of wanting to flick a guy’s ear for posting big goddamn pics.

Anyways, back to your regularly scheduled posting.
And a preemptive fuck you, to the person that posts up the million pixel wide photo, or a picture of longcat in this thread. You can go shit peach pits.

If you right click and 'view image' you can avoid the scroll.

 
Also a pet peeve of mine. I keep mine to a max of 800 pixels wide, with many being 700 or 500. If I have an especially nice hi-res version of the picture, I make the posted picture a clickable link to the hi-res version.
 
Also annoying (slight drift) are too big avatars (not 60x60). Some are 300 up to 1000 pixels, and show up readily while loading on a mobile device, before finally being resized by the forum software. Some very long time members are still guilty of this one.

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Originally posted by Pyker:
If you right click and 'view image' you can avoid the scroll.

On a tablet or phone?

I like the homemade horizontal lines in signatures ...

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The images I host allow me to append any image with ?w=600, for example, and the image is resized with height constrained.

It's not just the size of the photo that ticks me off but that the text is usually as wide. I will not scroll back and forth to read some guy's inconsiderate post.

Cool, because I woke up this morning and thought “damn, I am probably alone here and shouldn’t have posted that”.

Glad to know I’m not the only one.

Pyker, my iPad doesn’t have “right click”. It just had my fingers.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
Cool, because I woke up this morning and thought “damn, I am probably alone here and shouldn’t have posted that”.

No, you're not alone.

I've taken to throwing URLs for photos like that into my ad blockers. Means I'll never see photos from that in-duh-vidual again, but it also means I can read the forum.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by Pyker:
If you right click and 'view image' you can avoid the scroll.

On a tablet or phone?

Just attempted a 'helpful' suggestion, not a damn cure.

I see that too on the phone so when I post a picture which I usually have to be on the PC to do, I am cognizant of that fact and I downsize the pictures from normal humongous size.

I would guess that maybe they do not know how to do it any other way?

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Originally posted by Aquabird:
I would guess that maybe they do not know how to do it any other way?

Use postimages.org

It even gives an option when uploading to size it. Super convenient.

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t even gives an option when uploading to size it. Super convenient

I stumbled across something I didn't know the other day. When posting a photo here on the forum you paste the link in between the tags. When you do so, at the very end of that link will be the image size.

Change those numbers and it will change how it post on the forum. If it's too big, simply cut them in half and it will appear half size. No need to save it elsewhere or do anything else to alter it.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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t even gives an option when uploading to size it. Super convenient

I stumbled across something I didn't know the other day. When posting a photo here on the forum you paste the link in between the tags. When you do so, at the very end of that link will be the image size.

Change those numbers and it will change how it post on the forum. If it's too big, simply cut them in half and it will appear half size. No need to save it elsewhere or do anything else to alter it.

Thanks for the info. Will try that next time I post an image (if I remember). Been resizing mine on the computer before posting.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
I stumbled across something I didn't know the other day. When posting a photo here on the forum you paste the link in between the tags. When you do so, at the very end of that link will be the image size.

Change those numbers and it will change how it post on the forum. If it's too big, simply cut them in half and it will appear half size. No need to save it elsewhere or do anything else to alter it.

Just keep in mind that not all photo hosting sites have that in the URL. So you won't be able to do it with every image.

if you are pulling an image from the web, right click on your image and do a Google Image search, you results will give you the option of all, small, large etc.

Choose Small, once you see a page of the images, then find one with sub 600x600 numbers.

Right click that smaller image and copy the URL

Maybe a sticky with helpful tips on posting photos since it isn't exactly intuitive for some folks.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Choose Small, once you see a page of the images, then find one with sub 600x600 numbers.

Unless you're catering to the "stuck in the 1990s and still running a CRT monitor in 800x600 resolution" crowd, sub-600x is frankly pretty small for many forum images, especially for images that contain a lot of detail.

They may work somewhat fine on your phone, because of how phones display the forum plus how easy it is to just pinch to zoom, but on a typical high resolution computer display these days that'd be about the size of a post-it note. So not great when you're trying to show off details, or there's a lot going on in the photo.

Can you make out what's going on here? Because basically everyone on a computer can't...


500x-600x is fine for basic images, jokes, etc. (Like the first one I posted above.) But for anything more complicated than just basic images, ~800x wide is about the minimum for reasonable cross-platform viewing, since it's where more detailed images start being workable on most computers. ~1000x wide is about right for most viewers on most platforms with detailed images. ~1200x wide is about the upper limit in posted image size for good cross-platform forum browsing, because that is about where phones start having to adjust and make readers scroll to the side to read the last of the text.

(It also has partly to do with what folks have their phone settings set to... If they've got their text size set on Ginormous because they're in denial about getting old and needing glasses, that's naturally gonna throw all sorts of aspects of forum browsing off kilter. But that's the fault of the phone user and their unreasonable death-grip on their fading youth, not the fault of some young whippersnapper posting images that are "too big". )

tl;dr - For detailed images, I usually try to find versions of that image that are around 1000 pixels in width. It's a good all-around compromise.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

~1000x wide is about right for most viewers on most platforms with detailed images. ~1200x wide is about the upper limit in posted image size for good cross-platform forum browsing,

I have a 32" monitor running at 3840x2160, so plenty of screen real estate. I also have my browser window sized quite large, but also zoomed to 175%. 1024 is the largest I can view without scrolling, which is why I use 800 as an upper compatibility limit. Very occasionally I will post one at 1024 wide, but more often I will post it at 800 and make it clickable to a high-res version of the image. This way the viewer gets the gist, and can view the high-res version without causing size problems on the forum.

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Originally posted by henryaz:
1024 is the largest I can view without scrolling

Well, yeah. Because:

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Originally posted by henryaz:
...but also zoomed to 175%

Thus making that 1024x photo effectively 1792x.