Request: Relax the restrictions on photo uploading and processing
Because this forum processes all photo attachments and inline images to JPEG at a very small resolution, the end result is that the forum's use of pictures is not very useful. So, people have been turning to outside image hosting to host their images. Unfortunately, most of those hosting facilities are going away, so the valuable information in some posts on this forum is irretrievably lost.
To preserve the usefulness and longevity of the information on this forum, I'd like to formally request that the image uploading restrictions be relaxed a little:
- Increase the width of resized images to 1280 and/or the height to 1024, rather than whatever size they are at now
- Stop converting 8-bit color (or less) images into JPEG. (24-bit color, sure, but 1/2/4/8-bit GIF or PNG uploads are usually useful diagrams that get mangled on the conversion and resize)
To offset the increased demands of this request, you can decrease the JPEG compression quality 5 or 10 stops (ie. if it's currently set to 90 then reduce it to 80). This will keep the disk size and bandwidth the same, if that is the concern that set the limits they are today.
Offering a bounty for:
- A working Sanyo MBC-775 or Logabax 1600
- Music Construction Set, IBM Music Feature edition (has red sticker on front stating IBM Music Feature)
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