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vtsteam:
Andrew, I believe forum participants own the copyright to their content on responsible fora. I generally avoid those which attempt to co-opt that. I do think a cooperative joint hosting provider is a good idea, assuming users could add, or remove, photo content at will.
I also don't like the thumbnail presentation of forum software, and prefer to see images inline mixed with text. I think photo size should be limited to 800x 600max in forum software to reduce bandwidth and storage. Rather than than format being set by user option. An 800x600 image can be less than 100k in size. I have over 500 photos on Photobucket in various fora, yet PB reports I am using only 6% of my 2 Gig free allotment.
gerritv:
AdeV, there is a possibly simpler solution:
SMF has an addon module that supports inline attachments. Could one of the Mods look into adding this functionality?
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=525705.0
Has lots of options to control placement etc.
Gerrit
awemawson:
I gave up with Photobucket quite some time ago when their user interface got more and more awkward.
vtsteam:
Gerrit, the reason for thumbnails (and third party photo hosting) is it cuts down on bandwidth for the forum. Excessive bandwidth engenders much higher hosting costs.
Every time a visitor, user, spider, or bot opens a page, all the images or thumbs on that page download. Thumbnails are much smaller than full size images so the bandwidth is greatly reduced.
Third party photo hosting also has the advantage of eliminating the cost of local storage for images, so it is doubly cost effective for the forum. There is no storage cost and no bandwidth cost. Those are absorbed by the image host.
AdeV:
Coppermine is just the picture hosting software.
I'd have absolutely zero problem if Eric wanted to host it; I offered Linode and a "consortium" idea because a) it works quite well with ModelEngineMaker, and b) it provides continuity even if MM changes hands, or otherwise changes.
I have no dog in this fight (to probably misquote and misuse the metaphor), just throwing an idea out there.
FYI the Linode $20/mo offering gives you 48GB of SSD (i.e. ****-off-a-shovel fast) disk space, 3TB/mo transfer (download IIRC, upload isn't metered), and they can automate your backups for a few dollars more as well.
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