Some forum feedback please

[DevilsLuck]

Another tweak that could be beneficial, would be to allow “larger” pictures to be posted. When I say larger I’m referring to whatever restriction that requires me to send the picture to myself shrunken, before the format will allow me to post it to the board. Phones, and their cameras have come a long way, the board could benefit from keeping up with the tech. I’d wager many if not most of us use our phones to take the pictures we post here. And sending them to yourself, resizing them, saving the resized version, coming back to your post then going back to your pics to unearth the resized version to insert in your post... It’s a rather cumbersome process...

[Wayne52]

Not really sure but I think that the upload size right now is already 650k, I use flickr and imgur quite often for showing pic's but occasionally I'll upload photo's and after using a suitable photo manipulation program I can get photo's down to 650k pretty easy that look really nice.  Photos do take up a lot of space for sure in full format or even less.

[DevilsLuck]

Not really sure but I think that the upload size right now is already 650k, I use flickr and imgur quite often for showing pic's but occasionally I'll upload photo's and after using a suitable photo manipulation program I can get photo's down to 650k pretty easy that look really nice.  Photos do take up a lot of space for sure in full format or even less.

Yeah I'm not too tech savvy,.. It was just an idea. Posting pics gan give me fits sometimes, when having to go through the aforementioned process, or even worse a picture hosting site like the photobucket debacle. If it can't be done; it cant be done. I dont know much about such things. I just know it would be easier for me, and others to just upload the photo directly from the phone it was taken on.

[Wayne52]

Gimp is a really easy to use good program and it's opensource to boot, you ain't gotta spend an arm or leg to buy it cause it's free.  The price of Photoshop is unreal.

[Lt. Dan]

Not really sure but I think that the upload size right now is already 650k, I use flickr and imgur quite often for showing pic's but occasionally I'll upload photo's and after using a suitable photo manipulation program I can get photo's down to 650k pretty easy that look really nice.  Photos do take up a lot of space for sure in full format or even less.

Yeah I'm not too tech savvy,.. It was just an idea. Posting pics gan give me fits sometimes, when having to go through the aforementioned process, or even worse a picture hosting site like the photobucket debacle. If it can't be done; it cant be done. I dont know much about such things. I just know it would be easier for me, and others to just upload the photo directly from the phone it was taken on.

I have an Samsung S7 (android) I use an app to resize my pictures.  Lit Photo

Super simple.

[Lt. Dan]

Another tweak that could be beneficial, would be to allow “larger” pictures to be posted. When I say larger I’m referring to whatever restriction that requires me to send the picture to myself shrunken, before the format will allow me to post it to the board. Phones, and their cameras have come a long way, the board could benefit from keeping up with the tech. I’d wager many if not most of us use our phones to take the pictures we post here. And sending them to yourself, resizing them, saving the resized version, coming back to your post then going back to your pics to unearth the resized version to insert in your post... It’s a rather cumbersome process...

I take all the pictures I post with my phone.  From actually taking a photo to copying one, to a screenshot. Many are HUGE and if they were not compressed I couldn't post them. I have to compress most of mine and I visit and post on GTA 95% of the time from my phone.  You should try the Lit Photo app.

[DevilsLuck]

Another tweak that could be beneficial, would be to allow “larger” pictures to be posted. When I say larger I’m referring to whatever restriction that requires me to send the picture to myself shrunken, before the format will allow me to post it to the board. Phones, and their cameras have come a long way, the board could benefit from keeping up with the tech. I’d wager many if not most of us use our phones to take the pictures we post here. And sending them to yourself, resizing them, saving the resized version, coming back to your post then going back to your pics to unearth the resized version to insert in your post... It’s a rather cumbersome process...

I take all the pictures I post with my phone.  From actually taking a photo to copying one, to a screenshot. Many are HUGE and if they were compressed I couldn't post them. I have to compress most of mine and I visit and post on GTA 95% from my phone.  You should try the Lit Photo app.

I'll give it a look.

[Christopher]

They will still be here just not in the same place, most of those were very inactive but some were to a extent, they will be here before long. David

Thanks David, that is encouraging to hear.

Chris

[BackStop]

A thumbs up button can be nice but not required.  I am fine either way.  There is definitely no need for a negative vote button on this forum.  It is not who we are. Go surf Reddit and you will see what i mean.

It seems the mid thread banners are gone and therefore I have turned off my Ad Blocker.  No ads would be great but I cannot fund the forum myself.  I don't mind seeing the names of vendors especially when they are new to me.  I find that useful at times.  What I am seeing today I do not find obnoxious or intrusive.  It would be a shame for all of us to block all ads because we can't stand the look of the site, the vendors quit advertising and we start all over again.  Moderation in all things.

I don't do any social media beyond this and a few other forums.  I would not like to see this forum look and feel like Facebook etc. 
I like that this forum has not looked and felt very commercial and would not like to see it go that way.  I have my concerns with the GRIP on that.  Of course if I do not like it I do not have to click there.

OH, just thought of this!  Unless I am missing something,  when I type a post,  unless I triple space between paragraphs there is no space at all when it actually displays even though it previews correctly.  I know I am not the only person having this problem.

I agree about the formatting of posts.   For ease of reading, I like to double space my posts.   It is VERY hard to do now with how the editor/forum script forces text to be single spaced.

Also, a simple Like (per post and/or per thread) is something that would be beneficial (imho) to the GTA.   The only thing I can find that does this on the SMF forums is SMF Likes Pro.

If you would like to see it in action, look at this forum: https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php

There is no negative.   It allows folks who simply LIKE what is posted to indicate that without having to post a reply.

Simple.

ps

It costs $19-$29 per year as far as I can tell, depending on whether or not you mind the CopyRight notice being displayed.

P.S.

I believe the cost is for continued updates to the script and not for anything else.

It seems to work well on other SMF forums without issues.

[Wayne52]

I can say one thing about the internet experience is it's so much nicer if a person has a desktop computer.  I retired from the electronics repair business and all computers can be a big pain to repair and that's mainly that people don't take care of their computers, the hardware parts were always easy to replace, it's the software that people neglect, a person that owns any computer needs to stay right on top of it, especially people that use the Microsoft operating systems.  Even the notebook type computer's aren't too awfully bad as far as replacing hardware because pretty much all of them a person can get the manuals for disassembly right here in the internet.  Sorry for being a little off topic but this does pertain directly to resizing of pic's especially, a big keyboard beats the heck out of a tiny laptop however even on the laptops you can plug in a large keyboard if you like.

[SteveP-52]

Mentioned it before and it might already being worked on so apologies for being a pest, but combine the Entertainment and Review Gates under one heading and then put the whole thing under the main discussion Gates. Most of us (at least I do and seen others mention the same thing) tend go through all the main discussion Gates to see what's new, then wander to the reviews and see what they're doing.