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Post by brin on Apr 1, 2016 23:11:02 GMT
If we all come on to this forum.. does it have to be p2p or nothing.. the chat section does say, "talk about anything here. as long as it's legal" and i have (on a few occasions <cough> <cough> ) been nudged over to the chat section to calm me down a bit. Oldnick.. i am not sure you would be too happy if you needed some info on the forum and i immediately came back with ... "just google it" Everything you could think of is available on google.. it's the personal interaction that is as important as the answer some times.
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Post by oldnick on Apr 1, 2016 23:46:48 GMT
In full agreement with you with regards to the community side of things, but, as we have all recently become aware, the posting of images, rather than links to images, comes at a cost which someone will eventually have to bear. Links are not as instantly gratifying to the eye as images of course, but the main purpose of the forum is to discuss p2p after all - and preferably with free access.
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Post by brin on Apr 2, 2016 0:02:29 GMT
In full agreement with you with regards to the community side of things, but, as we have all recently become aware, the posting of images, rather than links to images, comes at a cost which someone will eventually have to bear. Links are not as instantly gratifying to the eye as images of course, but the main purpose of the forum is to discuss p2p after all - and preferably with free access. Yep, fully agree, it is a p2p forum after all, but..i do feel that there should be some outlet from the p2p side of things, as the dad jokes, funny pics etc shows, p2p should be the main criteria (and is) but outlets prove to be almost "AS" popular on occasions, not that anyone takes the outlets to be more serious than the p2p , but i think if all anyone was to talk about on the forum was "p2p" it would soon disintegrate to a forum for a sophisticated few. edit.. sorry i missed the main point, "images" i agree, if there is only a certain amount of space then we should all be wary of that.
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Post by registerme on Apr 2, 2016 0:50:43 GMT
The concern is not about images, it's about storage space. So the opening post (OP) gives everybody a trivially easy way to make this "not a problem" - insert links rather than upload images. It's not technical, it's not complicated, it is easy. The benefit to all from asking people to adhere to those guidelines should be obvious. If the OP is not easy to understand please PM me and I will try to a) explain things and b) update the OP such that it's easier for others going forwards .
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Post by adrianc on Apr 2, 2016 7:03:00 GMT
...which for me was the only way to do it. Might be the only way you know how to do it at the moment, but it's not the only way to do it... Tweak that to block images being uploaded only and I suspect you may have a winner. That may not be possible with the way the forum's hosted.
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Post by ablender on Apr 2, 2016 8:25:36 GMT
...which for me was the only way to do it. Might be the only way you know how to do it at the moment, but it's not the only way to do it...Tweak that to block images being uploaded only and I suspect you may have a winner. That may not be possible with the way the forum's hosted. Please do not lift quotes out of context. Read / quote my whole posting.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 2, 2016 8:29:41 GMT
That was the only relevant bit I was replying to.
There is nothing - NOTHING - that needs to be hosted here because it can't be hosted elsewhere and linked to.
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Post by ablender on Apr 2, 2016 8:36:43 GMT
Can old messages be stripped of the pictures? I ask this because of the insistence to linking to outside sources. If this forum is going to rely on other services, then there is no guarantee that those images are going to be available for any length of time. The person who uploaded them might take them down, close the account for the particular service or the service itself can fold down. If this is the case, it should be equivalent to removing images from old posts and clearing a lot of storage space. I had some time to explore imgur.com, proposed by ablrateandy and registerme. It looks like a good service, but if longevity is important then we do need to consider my points above.
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Post by brin on Apr 2, 2016 8:54:59 GMT
To gather some space back, why not a 6 month limit on retention of threads in the chat section, i'm sure there are many threads in there that have not been read for a long time , and most likely will never be, take the dads jokes as a point, personally i would let this run for 3 months then delete to free up space.
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Post by agent69 on Apr 2, 2016 9:18:49 GMT
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Post by brin on Apr 2, 2016 9:22:33 GMT
It's the bottom left hand corner that made me laugh, there is actually a website dedicated to this... wwwcatsthatlooklikehitler.com
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Post by JamesFrance on Apr 2, 2016 9:31:57 GMT
There is a good solution for this problem which we use for our yacht marina forum, it can easily be used by anyone for all images. postimage.org/mod.php
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Post by agent69 on Apr 2, 2016 9:44:08 GMT
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Post by mikeb on Apr 2, 2016 17:10:33 GMT
If this forum is going to rely on other services, then there is no guarantee that those images are going to be available for any length of time. Then upload them to your own webspace (at your ISP, at a free webhosting site) and link them from there. Or: run your own webserver from your home computer and host them from there, if you want to live dangerously There are no guarantees on anything -- cf. Zopa Forum, the original "independent" forum (eaten by FC). Wherever you put images, it seems it needs to be somewhere that's NOT here, due to size constraints. (I've seen this on another forum, where users are asked to upload attachments of log files/pictures/screenshots, they can't because "Error: the forum is over quota" and the moderator isn't aware/awake/bothered)
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Post by ablender on Apr 3, 2016 7:40:56 GMT
If this forum is going to rely on other services, then there is no guarantee that those images are going to be available for any length of time. Then upload them to your own webspace (at your ISP, at a free webhosting site) and link them from there. Or: run your own webserver from your home computer and host them from there, if you want to live dangerously There are no guarantees on anything -- cf. Zopa Forum, the original "independent" forum (eaten by FC). Wherever you put images, it seems it needs to be somewhere that's NOT here, due to size constraints. (I've seen this on another forum, where users are asked to upload attachments of log files/pictures/screenshots, they can't because "Error: the forum is over quota" and the moderator isn't aware/awake/bothered) I agree, but this does not address my question. I understand the size constraints that the administrators and mods are dealing with. What I am asking is whether there is a value in retaining threads/pictures for historic (continuity) reasons, or not. I am not referring to trivial photos of cats and cars, I am more concerned about photos that can be useful to people later on. On the other hand there would be photos that were needed at the time when they were uploaded. The issue was resolved and they are not needed anymore. So there are various situations and perhaps a one-size-fits-all is not suitable. What is the admins/mods take on this? I am not saying that one is bad and the other is good, but any decision made must take this into consideration.
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