@Wayside also made a very valid point a couple of pages ago. If these pages and photos are now very large file sizes - they can really eat into any monthly data allowances.
I usually view the site at home, over wi-fi with an unlimited monthly data allowance. Other forum users may have limited download allowance so they may need to reconsider whether they can still afford to use a data-heavy forum.
When I'm out and about or on holiday I try to use local wi-fi networks (hotels, cafés etc) whenever possible. Sometimes, however, I have no option other than to use some of the mobile data monthly allowance which comes with my mobile phone package. That is 2Gb (2000 Mb) per month.
On holiday I usually need to keep some mobile data allowance available for finding out where the best pubs and off licenses are I certainly won't be able to use my mobile data for accessing the forum if it's going to eat into it at a rate of knots
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Have to agree with, Wayside re the allowed 1.5MB size for an avatar, my Dragonfly avatar is a tiny 13.6kb
Also, good points raised re data allowances, so why not set the image file size up to 1MB, this is plenty big enough for web images.
But, I suppose this will also cause problems for those who don't know how to resize an image, I think this is going to be tricky for the team to make sure everyone is happy.
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@Hostafan1 - sorry - your photo was taking so long to download - line by line - I gave up and came to the next page - 😢
@Wayside - your pic downloaded instantly. Was that Hosta's original pic?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I usually view the site at home, over wi-fi with an unlimited monthly data allowance. Other forum users may have limited download allowance so they may need to reconsider whether they can still afford to use a data-heavy forum.
When I'm out and about or on holiday I try to use local wi-fi networks (hotels, cafés etc) whenever possible. Sometimes, however, I have no option other than to use some of the mobile data monthly allowance which comes with my mobile phone package. That is 2Gb (2000 Mb) per month.
On holiday I usually need to keep some mobile data allowance available for finding out where the best pubs and off licenses are
Also, good points raised re data allowances, so why not set the image file size up to 1MB, this is plenty big enough for web images.
But, I suppose this will also cause problems for those who don't know how to resize an image, I think this is going to be tricky for the team to make sure everyone is happy.