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21st Apr 2011, 10:27 PM #1
Thread widths exceeding screen size
I notice regularly that when a thread contains an oversize picture, the whole thread expands to the width of the picture, meaning that there is a need to continually use the slider at the bottom to read the posts line by line, as well as perusing the picture segment by segment.
Is it possible to automatically resize the posted photos to a page width, or, automatically turn them into attachments?
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22nd Apr 2011, 12:42 AM #2Retired
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Unfortunately not Graeme. It is caused by people using off site pictures.
If you report the post, the mods fix it pretty quick.
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22nd Apr 2011, 10:38 PM #3
Cool. I didn't realise that this sort of thing could be fixed by the mods. Good on youse!!
CheersThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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26th May 2011, 09:43 AM #4
Just as an aside.... Moderators shouldn't have to be fixing things like that. We ask for attachments to be saved on the forums rather than linked to outside sources like Photo Bucket etc, partly to safeguard the posters privacy, but mostly because when they stop using Photo Bucket and go to somewhere else and for another dozen or so reasons the pics disappear from the forums creating sometimes massive holes in threads.
If there was a way to stop members from linking to outside storage and keep everything in the forums storage area especially for attachments I would do it in a instant and without hesitation.
We have had more problems with missing or wrongly signposted attachments to outside storage than anything else. I used to get around 2-3 dozen emails a week about these problems, since requesting attachments to be added as per this post they have dropped to a handful a month. This is a massive time saving of many many hours.
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26th May 2011, 09:53 AM #5Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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I agree, photobucket and similar links are poison to forums. On the arboristesite wesbite a member had all his (very useful) images linked to his personal website and when that went belly up we lost hundreds of images.
It should be possible for a friendly programmer to write a script that searches each post as submitted for whatever lays between [IMG] tags and if there is no "www.woodworkforums.com" string, to delete whatever is between the tags. Members would soon get the message.
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