Chargeride
Well-Known Member
Thats winning at life.
Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
- Region
- Canada
Nice new ride for K!
Yeah, those trunk bags are super useful/versatile!
Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
- Region
- Europe
- City
- Mazovia, PL
I do the size reduction on an Android smartphone and on a PC differently:
- On smartphone, I open a photo with Snapseed app. Snapseed has been set by me to Export 720 pixel photos, so I just Export, and a very lightweight photo is ready
- On PC, I copy and paste the photo to IrfanView, reduce the size to either 960 px on horizontal or 720 px on the vertical and paste the photo in my post.
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
- Region
- Canada
I just use an image hosting site (postimages). No worries...
Chargeride
Well-Known Member
online batch image compression, takes 20 seconds for 15 2mb images, down to 100kb each
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
- Region
- USA
- City
- Carlsbad, CA
I prefer to stay just under the 2.0 MB size limit to preserve some zoomability in my uploaded photos. Don't mind the manual downsizing that requires. Forces me to look at cropping opportunities.
Tars Tarkas
Well-Known Member
I don't think there's a whole lot of practical difference in the viewing quality on a computer screen or phone between 2000 kb or 100 kb but under 1 mb is the general recommendation for forums, I think. A page with 20 or 30 2 mb pics can take a while to load and use a lot of storage, which hosts have to pay for.
TT
Slaphappygamer
Well-Known Member
- Region
- USA
- City
- Aptos
Problem with some hosting sites, is when you share one image, the viewer can see all your other photos on that account.
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
- Region
- Canada
I don't "think" that's true of postimages
Been wrong before...
Slaphappygamer
Well-Known Member
- Region
- USA
- City
- Aptos
Sometimes (imgur) you can also see the account holders real name. I don’t have too much faith in keeping personal things private on some image hosting sites.
Chargeride
Well-Known Member
I used to run a mobile website, theres a PC program called Easy Thumbnails, super small and to the point.
Compresses jpgs perfectly.
www.fookes.com
Compresses jpgs perfectly.
Easy Thumbnails
Easy Thumbnails specifications: system requirements and supported image formats
PCeBiker
No-Hands No-Pedaling No-Credentials
- Region
- Canada
I used postimages.org for my Mazda forum for free for Years, then out of nowhere they decided to start charging $100 a year for the service, and held everyone's pictures hostage.
I managed to get in to postimages the day it happened before I was locked out, and downloaded all my 100's of photos.
I'm pretty sure that I could choose whether a picture was private or was linked to all the others or not?
So why can't this forum do all that compressing stuff for us?
Am I missing something or what?
They could just mention in the rules or whatever that all photos will be resized to fit.
Why is this our responsibility ?
I suck at technology and had no idea that my photos were gargantuan.
I just took a picture and posted it.
When I send a picture with a text message, the picture automatically gets resized, and I don't have to think about it.
I don't like to think about or learn stuff that doesn't interest me.
Isn't there supposed to be AI crap to take care of s*it like this?
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
- Region
- USA
- City
- Carlsbad, CA
Yes. Advertising on this free forum is pretty minimal. Who's paying for the server processing and storage capacity needed to do that for us? Guessing that our new owners could no longer afford to absorb that cost.
PCeBiker
No-Hands No-Pedaling No-Credentials
- Region
- Canada
I was figuring that the downsizing process would only have to be done once, then every time the pictures are accessed or viewed, there would be much less processing and far less storage involved.
I don't think it would "cost" too much for the forum to do it for us.
I did however figure out how to reduce my photos to 40% and I can do it quickly now.
Chargeride
Well-Known Member
they still have to pay for the upload and the processing, its free, so I'll do it myself, especially when Im posting a graphic novel of my ride 
PCeBiker
No-Hands No-Pedaling No-Credentials
- Region
- Canada
they still have to pay for the upload and the processing, its free, so I'll do it myself, especially when Im posting a graphic novel of my ride
Yeah, I'm used to it doing it now.
At least it doesn't cost them anything to reject my picture if I forget to resize it.
Or maybe it does?
They still have to process my upload enough to find out that it's too big?
So what kind of money are we talking about? Fractions of a penny, or actual dollars per picture?
I'm not aware of any costs or advertising dollars involved when my phone downsizes a picture with a text?
I have free unlimited texting.
Where is all the money hiding?
Am I using up and wearing out my phones' processing power?
Chargeride
Well-Known Member
It all adds up, of course thats just a guess, storage issues, capacity of the link, could be anything or all of it.
Everything costs money so dont reduce them to 1.99mb dudes.
Everything costs money so dont reduce them to 1.99mb dudes.
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
- Region
- Canada
Are you sure you're not talking about Photobucket? That happened to me there as well...
PCeBiker
No-Hands No-Pedaling No-Credentials
- Region
- Canada
Opps, sorry. That's right.
This is the thread I made about replacing the high pressure fuel filter on my rust turd,..
How To Change Your Fuel Filter (lots of pics)
Thanks to mtnbiker26 for starting his thread and everyone who contributed to it. http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123718385-Has-Anyone-Had-Their-Fuel-Pump-Cover-Leak I finally got around to installing my fuel filter using the how-to. The first and easiest step is to lift up the...
I managed to replace the main pictures in the first couple of posts with the pics that I downloaded from Photobuck after the highjacking and ransom request but all the pics afterwards are X'ed out.
That's when I started using postimages.org to host my pictures, and they've been fine.
All those pictures are still visible in my posts and they never asked for money.
Photobucket now legally owns all my pictures that they hosted and some pictures are still visible but they all have a "Photobucket" watermark in the picture.
I just had a huge download file of all my pictures and didn't know what pictures went with what post, so I just posted them at the end of my "Unbuild Thread",..
PCB's Unbuild Thread
My Coleman stove is ancient. You could fuel it with gasoline. Back in the day before they put alcohol in the gas. Naptha is about $20 a gallon.
I think that as an experiment, everyone who reads this should click on the above link and look at all my full size high resolution pictures to see if we can crash the Mazda forum or if the administrator of the forum tells me to stop messing with his server costs.
I'll bet you any money (fake money of course) that Antoine would be happy to see traffic on his forum?
Forums are dying off.
It's all about Facebook and YouTube now.
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