Photo management appears to have changed

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I do apologize for eating up some space on your server, @Lee_Ars . I did notice that the compression has gotten heavier over time but today is the first time I noticed this:
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I’m assuming photos are now being handled differently now since the option to download photos is gone as well. I’m just a bit curious about the change and how much of an impact members can have on your server.

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Oh man. Sorry to let this sit so long unanswered. Too much going on.

Re: Photo management, I’m honestly not sure. I just press “upgrade” on Discourse whenever it says there’s one available, so it sounds like the devs have changed things.

I haven’t uploaded an image in a while, so let me try one real quick and see:

star control 2 mining map
star control 2 mining map3200×4258 1.2 MB

There may not be a download link, but right-clicking and choosing “open image in new tab” (or the equivalent option in your browser of choice) seems to still work A-OK. From there, you can save the image. (You actually might be able to just right-click on the original inline and save it there, since I think it’s just being scaled by the browser rather than actually being a separate thumbnail.)

No need to worry about the server. We got plenty space:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
/dev/md1        227G   53G  163G  25% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1       916G  1.3G  869G   1% /backup
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Interesting. In the photography thread, everything I post is being automatically reduced in size to around 1920 x 1270. This actually suits me fine because I was doing that manually before and it saves me a step (that thread is just for display - if anyone wants to exchange files there are other means of doing that).
I notice that your image is 3200 x 4258 - way bigger than mine. I can think of a number of reasons why that might be.

  • There are user posting size limits and I’m over the limit
  • There are thread size limits and that thread is way over the limit
  • There has been a configuration change recently

None of this is a problem though. Trying to work out what is happening is purely curiosity on my part. I am very appreciative of you providing the space for us all to moan / rant / celebrate :grinning:

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Yay, we can clog the server up with moar hi-res phodies :rofl:

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