Galdor_Mithr Posted March 1 Report Posted March 1 (edited) i'm not going to update my diary anymore due to not being able to post pics due to there file size idk why this is happening, no one here can read my posts and its bumming me out a lot, i'm making steel i'm in my 5th year and i'm looking forward to going to the devastation. just wanted to wrap it up it was fun hope your all well have fun playing hope i can get the courage and better laptop to play on multi player so i can play this cool game with you all soon. Edited March 1 by Galdor_Mithr
LadyWYT Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 3 hours ago, Galdor_Mithr said: i'm not going to update my diary anymore due to not being able to post pics due to there file size idk why this is happening The forums have a limit on how much attachment data can be uploaded at one time. If there's not enough space remaining, you won't be able to upload new pictures. If you select the "My Attachments" option from the drop down box on your profile at the top of the forum page, it will show you how much data you've used versus how much you have remaining. From there you can delete older content to clear up space for uploading new. 1
Vratislav Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 I am also a bit under the quota, would be happy to know sooner about it. Good practice is to upload screenshots with smaller resolution and saved in .jpg format, but I am sometimes too lazy for it. .png is a space killer.
Broccoli Clock Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 (edited) (updated) Ok, this is now a massively rewritten post, less maybe 4 months ago you could use Imgur image links and the forum would embed them. My whole post was about how you can use that as the host rather than uploading images to your account. There is an issue with UK users and Imgur, and I am one of those who have suffered it, as Imgur blocks all UK access (a long and really stupid story I won't go into here). At the time Imgur blocked UK access, Imgur embeds in here were working so I assumed they would still do that, but I did a quick check and found that it's now disabled. I've been my user allocated disk space very carefully but it's really poor as to include a newer image I am now removing the older images and that leaves previous posts possibly broken. Frustrating as hell as the whole point of a forum is to retain useful information, not 'force' users to pick and choose what they think is the most relevant. It's a minor point, but one that reduces the amount I will post and the quality of images associated with them. Some people may welcome that though.. What's more, tons of images on the Mod DB use Imgur for their images which doesn't stop the mod from working in game, but does make choosing them much more difficult. I actually put a mention into the modding forum to warn people but nobody even bothered to reply. Link in spoiler.. Spoiler So perhaps someone did read that and simply blocked Imgur from embedding as you definitely were able to embed into a post an Imgur image just a few months back? If you have video you can use a YouTube link to embed, which is useful as videos are much larger in size (to the point they break the upload limit here), so that's a least one solution for that type of content. Edited March 2 by Broccoli Clock 2
Broccoli Clock Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 Ok, one more update to this, the solution I am going for is the one I've just used in another thread about chickens. I have a screenshot (1920x1080), that is 2.9Mb in size and is in png format, I upload that to postimages, then get the sharing URL (it provides it for you). I then take the original image and create a thumbnail, 25% in size so 480x270, and I save that as jpeg low which reduces its file size to just 19kb. I then upload that to my forum allocation, frustratingly it increases the file size to 70kb, more than 3x but it's still much smaller than 2.9Mb (effectively 2% of the original). I post the thumbnail image into the post, then set it to hyperlink to the postimages share url. You can see how that works in the other thread. It's a solution, not a perfect solution but will certainly make a huge saving in your forum allocation space with the caveat you'll have a smaller thumbnail being used and the image is hosted out of the forum (and thus not embedded into the post). 3
PineReseen Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 Yeah, the attachment limit is quite annoying. I've gone back and edited all my posts with an image to change it to a 1440x810 JPEG, I think it might be a tad too big for maximum efficiency, but I reduced my usage from almost 100% to around 25% initially. The issue is probably that the game saves the screenshots in the PNG format which is lossless (and thus has a way lower storage efficiency than lossy formats, which lose some data during compression). Broccoli Clock's solution seems very very interesting though, I may try it going forward! This thumbnail image (Made it even smaller, 810x456 with 50% quality) links to a high-res one on Imgur instead. I think it'd be better if the attachment limit increased with an account's age and total posts, so that members who stay with the game and post get more attachment size to not worry about running out when they post their base screenshots. Although I have no idea if that is even possible given that the code for this website seems to be mostly developed by Invision Community. 2
Broccoli Clock Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 1 minute ago, PineReseen said: The issue is probably that the game saves the screenshots in the PNG format which is lossless (and thus has a way lower storage efficiency than lossy formats, which lose some data during compression). You may already know this but for the most part, jpeg low will do, unless you are needing the precise resolution for text. That will greatly reduce the file size of a lossless PNG, for example a 1920x1080 screenshot (captured in game using [F12]) will provide a PNG of approx 3Mb, meanwhile a jpeg low conversion reduces that to just 117Kb, so effectively just 4% of the previous size. As mentioned even when uploading to your own allocation, the Invision board is doing something funky and increasing the file size it allocates (that 117kb may end up 300kb) but it's still a big reduction. It makes sense to convert all the screenshots to jpeg low (can be done with just about any graphic app; photoshop, gimp, etc..) if you are uploading them to your forum allocation. 12 minutes ago, PineReseen said: This thumbnail image (Made it even smaller, 810x456 with 50% quality) links to a high-res one on Imgur instead. Just for reference, although Imgur is a very useful site, you are stopping any UK visitors from seeing the image by hosting it there. This is what I see if I follow the link associated to the image you posted.. 1
PineReseen Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 22 minutes ago, Broccoli Clock said: You may already know this but for the most part, jpeg low will do, unless you are needing the precise resolution for text. That will greatly reduce the file size of a lossless PNG, for example a 1920x1080 screenshot (captured in game using [F12]) will provide a PNG of approx 3Mb, meanwhile a jpeg low conversion reduces that to just 117Kb, so effectively just 4% of the previous size. [...] I don't really know what that is, I usually just adjust the slider of quality on my GIMP export screen if I want to have a different quality JPEG. I also have a bigger monitor so I resize the image too, for me my usual resized and compressed size is around 250 Kb. 22 minutes ago, Broccoli Clock said: Just for reference, although Imgur is a very useful site, you are stopping any UK visitors from seeing the image by hosting it there. This is what I see if I follow the link associated to the image you posted.. That's rather unfortunate. I guess I could try to increase the thumbnail quality so it is more visible for people who don't have access to the external website. I'm not really familiar with postimages.org, some reviews on trustpilot seem to be rather negative, so I've just decided to settle for Imgur as it is a more well-known site, but I guess that does have it's bad sides...
Broccoli Clock Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 (edited) 13 minutes ago, PineReseen said: That's rather unfortunate. I guess I could try to increase the thumbnail quality so it is more visible for people who don't have access to the external website. I'm not really familiar with postimages.org, some reviews on trustpilot seem to be rather negative, so I've just decided to settle for Imgur as it is a more well-known site, but I guess that does have it's bad sides... I've used Imgur for decades (no, really!) and have no issue with them, even their moderation. Granted my account was a political meme account (trust me, you don't want to know the user name!) so it's ultra annoying that they've taken this stance, albeit it's ultra annoying the government felt it suitable to block content based on very little evidence. At present the UK government is running on vibes and fear, which to be fair is the normal state of British politics. Either way, Imgur is not getting unblocked for UK users, and possibly will be blocked in other countries soon. I am using postimages, and have created an account, but I am on desktop so I'm not installing an app, and it's a throwaway email account I used to register. I'm not going to be sharing anything other than images for this forum so I don't see a particular risk in terms of privacy. That said, I lean very heavily in my cynicism for every single company in existence, and don't trust any of them with my data (imgur included, they absolutely have scraped my content), so if postimages starts to act up then I'll find another host. Edited March 2 by Broccoli Clock 1
Loosebearings Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 6 minutes ago, Broccoli Clock said: Either way, Imgur is not getting unblocked for UK users, and possibly will be blocked in other countries soon. The UK is just a test bed. Other countries are already following suite and companies will be happy to comply. Remember, it's never about the children. 1
Broccoli Clock Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 Just now, Loosebearings said: Remember, it's never about the children You are preaching to the choir here, and I have to be careful as I am very political I just haven't shown it here and because I am extremely based I'm not sure it would benefit anyone if I did, but yeah... it's not at all about the kids and I'll leave it at that.
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