New Feature: Automatic Embedded Image Resizing

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I'm happy to introduce a new and much-needed feature to the forums: automatic image resizing. In other words, any image embedded in a post wider than 624 pixels wider than your web browser's window will be proportionately scaled down to an appropriate width. It can be viewed at its original size by clicking on the small bar above it. Here's an example image by Soop Dogg, keep in mind that you may need to resize your browser's window and refresh the page to see the feature in action.

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The feature retroactively applies to all images posted in the forum, and you don't have to do anything to take advantage of it - just keep using the IMG tags as normal. Linked images are unaffected - they'll be "clickable" in both large and small sizes. If you don't like or want the feature, you can disable it by checking the "Disable automatic image resizing" setting in your account options.

Give it a try and let me know if you have any questions or problems.
 
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This will make browsing the photomode section so much easier. Great addition, Jordan! 👍
 
It does indeed! I wondered where these little yellow bars were coming from!

It messed up my image-only presentation styles there, but that's an easy fix. And it saves a ton of work for us 👍

I was thinking this might make Competition entries easier, but as it's the original file just scaled down, the file size concerns are still there, so I'll keep the current rules in place for now.

Thanks for this Jordan (and the option to turn it off if so desired)! 👍

(EDIT) Found my answer about it being a width-only change, not height.
 
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Thank goodness. I can go back in the "Imports" thread, again. Thanks heaps for this! 👍
 
It's a good feature, and will be great for browsing threads with full size photomode shots etc, but isn't 624 pixels a little small? Any chance of bumping it to 700 or thereabouts?
 
Revolution.
It's a good feature, and will be great for browsing threads with full size photomode shots etc, but isn't 624 pixels a little small? Any chance of bumping it to 700 or thereabouts?
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Unfortunately, no. 624 is the maximum because that's the width an image can be before it stretches the page for guests (who view the forum with the sidebar) with the still-popular screen resolution of 1024x768.
 
Aah, I see. I knew there had to be a reason behind the otherwise arbitrary figure of 624. Thanks for the reply :)
 
I like it, will have to go through my gallery and change some of the horizontal pics but that's not a big deal.

Great addition.👍
 
This is great, I was expecting a annoying popup for full size versions like other forums and websites but this is much better. 👍
 
I ask, because with the method the forum uses right now, you still have to load the image before it will be resized, so a "warning" wouldn't really help. I think this must be clarified, not only if we are allowed to post big pictures, but also how many in a single post. I don't have a problem with thumbnails though, I actually wish more people would use small thumbnails like I do.
 
G.T.Ace
Does it mean we are allowed to post pictures with bigger resolutions, like 1920x1080?
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I see nothing wrong with this:

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as that's the entire point of this new feature, although you do raise a good point about still having to download the full size images...
 
This is GREAT NEWS! I saw it and didn't pay attention, but then Slip pointed it out in a thread and it was like #DING# 💡 thanks for this.
 
@TB: Yes, but like I mentioned, the picture still will be downloaded full size before I click on the automatic created thumbnail, now imagine this in a photomode thread, with 30 1080p pictures on one page, all with around 500kb each.
 
Excellent! No more scrolling side to side to read the text under a big photo! Really nice change there.

I wonder though, would it be feasible to allow the viewing user to set a custom width for the resizing instead of the default 624? Note that's viewer, not poster.
 
The hours of work I've put into making the tuner garage opening post look good just amounted to nothing as everything gets resized and none of the meticulously planned continuosity works anymore as extra line changes are inserted between the images. Personally not impressed at all... a great idea for photos but it screwed me up big time because it thinks I have ungodly big images (896px wide) while they're really around 25kB each. Not good.

See for yourself.
 
BobK
I saw, and honestly, I don't see what the problem is. The banners are a bit smaller (which I don't see as a big deal at all), but other than that, what's the problem?
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How it was designed to look like:

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How it actually looks like:

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It actually takes more space with the resizing in place.
 
Loving it, Jordan 👍

Makes it a lot easier to approve and edit messages in the Photomode subforum, don't get lost anymore...
 
I do know what Greycap's getting at; it happened to me for my Gallery's first post, as I use that as an index. My solution? It's not perfect, but I'm going to split the current wide images into two smaller images. Two 350px images will still sit beside each other comfortably for members viewing a page, since they don't get the ads on the right hand side that non-registered viewers do. And personally, I'm not too concerned if non-registered viewers don't see my page as it's meant to be; it's for the community ;).

It'd be interesting if the feature could be applied to only certain boards, or users had the ability to, say, force an On or Off status for their threads, but from my understanding, that's not possible, plus it would create a massive headache for the staff and users alike. The Photomode sub-forum was rampant with full-size images, and it made viewing threads pretty painful, so this helps endlessly with that.

There has to be a trade-off; while plenty of us do think about the other people viewing, and post thumbnails, or in the case of Greycap or I, use wider images that are still very, very easy on the bandwidth, others don't think about it.
 
Maybe there can be an optional argument for these 'layout-images'?

like:

[IMG noresize]img.jpg[ /IMG]
 
Greycap
The hours of work I've put into making the tuner garage opening post look good just amounted to nothing as everything gets resized and none of the meticulously planned continuosity works anymore as extra line changes are inserted between the images. Personally not impressed at all... a great idea for photos but it screwed me up big time because it thinks I have ungodly big images (896px wide) while they're really around 25kB each. Not good.

See for yourself.
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I'm sorry it had that affect on your post menu. Unfortunately, web design is all about working with and accommodating for the often unexpected constraints of other users's computers and web browsers - this feature just makes you, the forum users, a bit more aware they exist. In this case, even with the new resizing feature disabled, your post is still broken for both guests and logged in users with 1024x768 screen resolutions:

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Batch-resizing those images to 624 pixels wide will ensure they look great for everyone.
 

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