Good news for all of you photo happy posters out here in the forums. Thanks to your (sometimes loud) suggestions we contacted our forums vendor, MZinga, and requested that they increase the lifetime photo upload limit for members. As many of you know it was recently slashed to 3MB.
MZinga met us somewhere in the middle of our request and has upped the lifetime limit per user to 100MB. The change should take effect immediately.
We apologize for the earlier inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we worked to resolve this!
Matt Berger
Taunton.com
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THANK YOU!
As an added note to picture posters ..... Try to reduce the file size (picture density, not the display dimensions) of your uploaded photos. The visual quality will look just as good on a computer screen and you will be able to store tons more pictures. With 100MB you'll be hard pressed to run out of space any time soon.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
That's a good point PatchogPhil. If you have Photoshop Elements (or use the free online version) use the "save for web" feature, which reduces the size considerably without lowering the quality.
- Matt
Matt,Thak you for the increased limit.Unfortunately BT may have lost the "Best Finish Carpenter", Stan Foster, as determined by a contest Dewalt hosted. Other regulars have also indicated frustration. Myself included. Hopefully Stan will return.Once again, thank you.Chuck S.live, work, build, ...better with wood
Come see what they've done for you.
He hasn't run away - he was here this morning.http://www.quittintime.com/ View Image
...this mean we get to attend the Mike Hussein Smith School of Hand Modeling again?
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
Thank you !
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
Thanks for the update, Matt. Maybe you can answer a question regarding photos. When I was told I had run out of photo space, I tried to delete some of my old ones buy clicking on "see old attachments". All the ones for Breaktime are listed tp-breaktime. The ones from Knots are listed three ways, fw-knotsnew, fw-knotsold, and fw-knots. The new and old seem to be duplicates of just plain fw-knots. If I try to open either the old or new, I'm told I have to be a member of the group and need a registration number. While I can delete the fw-knots, I can't delete the other duplicates.
Is there, or will there be, a way to clear out older photos and regain allotted space, if so, how do you do it. Before, when I deleted a post with pictures, it didn't give me any more space. Currently, it says I have the full allotted space. Maybe the existing photos, (my old attachments) were not counted in this new change over.
Photos are something most folks like. They can make explanations more clear than words. They're also just fun to look at. If 100MB is a "lifetime" allotment, we would want to be conservative about reusing the same photo in different threads and be aware of the size. Although my computer showed some of my photos well below the size allotment, I wasn't able to enter them in the recent contests for decks and finish carpentry, for example. The screen said they were too large. I'm aware that this was something apart from Knots or Breaktime.
What are the recommended sizes, dpi and MB, that will be large enough to be seen yet not waste unnecessary space. Is jpeg the best format? Is there a help or instruction page that addresses how to upload photos?
Thanks,
Hammer
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
You can't regain allotment by deleting old attachments.Once attached, they are a part of your allotment forever...you never know how deep a puddle is from the top......You are always welcome at Quittintime
Sorta' like when you were a kid and they told you it was going on your "permanant record"
Forrest - heard that once or twice
Only once or twice ???I thought that was part of the regular roll call.And the call to come in from recess.And the announcement at the end of the day.....you never know how deep a puddle is from the top......You are always welcome at Quittintime
Oh, and the letter they send home with the report card...you never know how deep a puddle is from the top......You are always welcome at Quittintime
No, no. More like the Wheel of Fortune (or Samsara for you Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs playing at home)'Once you've bought a prize, it's yours to keep''Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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70kb is big enough for me. I resize mine in paint.
Hey Matt,
Thanks for taking care of that for us.
Communication on the range of subjects discussed here is certainly simplified and improved by adding photos. Otherwise we'd have to learn to be serious and scholarly writers, like youse guys.
Thank you kindly sir.
I'm sure this will benefit Taunton as well as we denzins of this forum.
Thanks also to Robynn for carrying the water.
Welcome to the
Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime.
where ...
Excellence is its own reward!
Matt, thanks to all concerned... not withstanding the stoopid move to begin with<G>http://www.tvwsolar.com
Now I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
I would set him in chains at the top of the hill
Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille
He could die happily ever after"
thanks Matt!! and thanks for letting us know
Thank you very much from one who frequently posts pics !!
Sooooo we hit 100MB and then what?
Posting without a net.
yer goin' down.http://www.tvwsolar.com
Now I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
I would set him in chains at the top of the hill
Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille
He could die happily ever after"
I would think you could change your name to Gunnner and carry on.
I get in enough trouble with 2 n's. I don't
want anymore. And I don't want to change me name anyway.
Posting without a net.
Then you start a new account here.;o)..you never know how deep a puddle is from the top......You are always welcome at Quittintime
Not me. One account for life.
Posting without a net.
Mustn't lose the holy post count._________________________________________________
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Tonton Matou
Grant said you were 'no account'.I guess that means you got no more pie, too.....you never know how deep a puddle is from the top......You are always welcome at Quittintime
Thanks, Matt! I recognize that it gets tough swimmin' against the current and a major thank you for your efforts.
I gotta say the pics are just about the most valuable, enjoyable, things on the site. "In Progress" threads from Grant, Sphere, Stan, Walter, et al, are well worth the admission and are always educational as well as entertaining. It's nice to look over the pics posted by the experts on this site and be able to ask follow-up questions. A HUGE benefit.
Also, FWIW, I note that my pie is reset to "0" used as of today, so we apparently get 100 Mb henceforth. Seems like a good compromise.
A suggestion to other posters: Most of us have learned to post by pasting from some other pic site, like Flikr. I for one intend to continue that practice generally, but use the "Attach Files" option on Mzinga for pics that I think should stick around in this forum for posterity, thus avoiding the dreaded "Red X" if/when the third-party site drops the pic.
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
Everything fits, until you put glue on it.
Congratulations!
MBerger receives the BT 'All Around Good Guy Hero' Award.
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be an underdog
THANKS! Hot dog, Mr. Berger! I take back everything I said in that deleted post that almost got me banned. I really didn't mean it anyways, honest!