The Future Is Here, Now!!!

[Jockos]

I checked the calendar today, end it showed me 2016.

Imagine that, the second millennium!

We went from this:

to this:

But every time someone posts a large picture in a thread, the layout on Rangefinderforum.com breaks.
2016.
Breaks.
our pictures still breaks the layout in 2016.

Seriously every other site on the Internet resizes images according to browser window size, and this is a photography forum; we do images, it's what we do!
Even sites that don't give diddly squat about pictures, resizes their images dynamically.

Sometimes pictures get big, we need to deal with it!



If it's absolutely unthinkable to implement it, please move the username and profile picture to the right hand side of the page, so that we can at least view as much of the image (because images are what we do, photographers, images, pictures, bilder!) as possible.

This is important, and should have been implemented ages ago!


2016 Stephen, 2016.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I checked the calendar today, end it showed me 2016.

Imagine that, the second millennium!

We went from this:

to this:

But every time someone posts a large picture in a thread, the layout on Rangefinderforum.com breaks.
2016.
Breaks.
our pictures still breaks the layout in 2016.

Seriously every other site on the Internet resizes images according to browser window size, and this is a photography forum; we do images, it's what we do!
Even sites that don't give diddly squat about pictures, resizes their images dynamically.

Sometimes pictures get big, we need to deal with it!



If it's absolutely unthinkable to implement it, please move the username and profile picture to the right hand side of the page, so that we can at least view as much of the image (because images are what we do, photographers, images, pictures, bilder!) as possible.

This is important, and should have been implemented ages ago!


2016 Stephen, 2016.

LOL. The Truth, it burns!

 

[fad gadget]

It's a complete joke.

 

[Jockos]

It's a complete joke.

*Knock knock*

Who's there?

Your broken layout!!!

:bang:

 

[BillBingham2]

*Knock knock*

Who's there?

Your broken layout!!!

:bang:

Your broken layout who?

B2 (;->

 

[Jockos]

As someone who is going through the excruciating process of building a website, I can say that this is probably not possible. The platform this forum was built on is much older than responsive images (which really only became widespread ~3 years ago). It's not an easy thing to add it to something like WordPress much less code into something that was never meant to have it in the first place. That being said, the version of vBulletin that RFF is running on is a full two versions behind what is available now. Perhaps it would be possible to upgrade to that version if it has responsive images (though that does cost money).

Well, maybe responsive is to much to ask, but it should be possible to limit image size to something reasonable quite easy:
If 'image width' > 800
'Image width' == 800

 

[jbielikowski]

Funny, because RFF does resize over 1000px width.

 

[splitimageview]

It's not hard to migrate the db to Xenforo which is fully responsive. One of the developers of XenForo was lead developer for vBulletin.

 

[splitimageview]

Maybe linked image sizes are impossible to manage with this version of vbulletin, but not with more modern software.

That might solve the email notifications too. 🙂

 

[Darthfeeble]

And you would think for all that RFF costs us that we could get any service we request!!

 

[fireblade]

Image size?..... I'd worry more about going nude in the sauna with the in-laws.

 

[mfogiel]

I think you have to be patient with the RFF technical aspects - this is no facebook.

 

[Mike Fish]

bottom of the page: Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.8

That's version 3
Current is version 5
vBulletin 4 was released 21 December 2009
vBulletin 5 was released 25 September 2012

just sayin

 

[Jockos]

Image size?..... I'd worry more about going nude in the sauna with the in-laws.

I'd be worried if you weren't nude in the sauna, only creeps wear clothes in the sauna.

 

[ferider]

Funny, because RFF does resize over 1000px width.

What he said. Everybody here who's ranting should try it out. It's 2016. Your screen should be wider than 1000px.

For example, my recent picture post in http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152991, post #41. Click on the landscape to see full version. Works at least in Firefox.

 

[Jockos]

What he said. Everybody here who's ranting should try it out. It's 2016. Your screen should be wider than 1000px.

For example, my recent picture post in http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152991, post #41. Click on the landscape to see full version. Works at least in Firefox.

It sure is, doesn't change the fact that the layout breaks. Would I create a thread about it otherwise?
Found a Greasemonkey script that can be modified to work pretty well:

// Written by Yan Huang

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Yan's Code...Pwnage!
// @description   Pwnage!
// @include       http://*
// ==/UserScript==

var z = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
for(i=0;i<z.length;i++) {
if(z[i].width >= window.innerWidth*0.75){
    z[i].width = window.innerWidth*0.75;
    }
}

 

[CameraQuest]

Jocko you have brought up nothing that has not been carefully looked at before and put on the back burner until a better solution is available.

RFF is using is extremely customized (aka hacked) off the shelf software.

All those custom modifications will be lost
when going to any other VB upgrade (that have problems of their own)
or different forum software (with possible data loss),
which would undoubtedly cause many more member upsets.

Software will stay the same at RFF until we find a better software upgrade with a
balance of features, future customizations, all with no data loss.
Losing many RFF features just to see larger screen images makes no sense.

Stephen

 

[Spanik]

I find it far more idiot that this site is nothing but a bit of information between 2 black bands that are each of them larger than the information. Not everybody is looking to this on a tiny phone screen.

 

[Jockos]

Stephen,

Thank you for taking the time to answer!

I hope that your magic bullet platform comes along promptly. Thanks for providing us with this forum, and the wealth of information on the cameraquest site, and my skopar 21 - great little lens that one!