what's going on with image sizing on RFF?

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The moderators at RFF have lost their minds!!!!

There is a well known old adage that states:

IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT!
 
back alley said:
be nice or be gone!
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Joe, with all due respect, telling people to be gone because they want their photographs to look good on a photo forum isn't a very productive way to keep a photographic user base alive.

I'll be gone if when I post my photos they'll be scaled to teensy little blurry thumbnails that look like garbage. There's no point to showing photos here if that's how the forum moderators or owner disrespects them.

Establish sensible size limits ... currently, something in the 1024 to 1200 pixel range on the long edge suits the vast majority of devices that people use to view photos on-line... and only scale if the posted/linked photo is larger than that. Publish the "best size" limits broadly too.

This is important because the quality of the displayed photos on the site should be the most important thing that subscribers can rely upon. Currently, RFF's image display is very badly broken, and it wasn't like this even as little as a few days ago.

G
 
be gone for being nasty not for what they might want.
there are many ways to say things…his was nasty and i replied in kind.
 
back alley said:
be gone for being nasty not for what they might want.
there are many ways to say things…his was nasty and i replied in kind.
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I didn't find it nasty, I found it humorous. ;-)

But regardless of how it is expressed, image display on RFF is currently broken and does not do justice to what a PHOTO forum should be presenting.
Fix that or any subscribers who prefer to look at photographs will leave anyway, whether you think they're nasty or not.

G
 
... more peevish than nasty; humorous? no ... although indiscriminate capitalisation is always wrong in my opinion
 
Having a uniform size to posted photos has been nothing but positive. I don't have to change zoom settings to view differently sized images.
 
By the end of the day, the picture resizing will be 1024.

We will see how that works out in practice, and adjust if need be.

Stephen
 
The moderators at RFF have lost their minds!!!!

i don't find that funny, in the least.
thin skin? perhaps…
what it does show is a lack of understanding as to how this site works.
the mods moderate…the boss makes the rules…perhaps stephen has lost his mind and if you care to find that out...ask him and stop accusing the mods as if we make the rules.

and godfrey, you should know that better than most being a former mod here at rff.
 
CameraQuest said:
By the end of the day, the picture resizing will be 1024.

We will see how that works out in practice, and adjust if need be.

Stephen
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Thanks Stephen.

Does this mean that if I link to a photo which is already sized up to 1024 pixels on the long edge, NO scaling or other manipulations will be performed? That's what will promote the best possible quality.

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back alley said:
The moderators at RFF have lost their minds!!!!

i don't find that funny, in the least.
thin skin? perhaps…
what it does show is a lack of understanding as to how this site works.
the mods moderate…the boss makes the rules…perhaps stephen has lost his mind and if you care to find that out...ask him and stop accusing the mods as if we make the rules.

and godfrey, you should know that better than most being a former mod here at rff.
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Sorry Joe, but it's just an expression of peevish exasperation. That's why I found it to be a chuckle. You're taking this so so personally.

I often tell my boss, and HIS boss, "What, have you guys lost your minds this week? This latest blah-blah-blah is just nonsense!" They take it in the spirit offered: that I find whatever the current suggestion for a course of action to be foolish and ill-considered. I obviously don't intend it to say, "Hey, you stupid dolt, can't you find your way out of a brown paper bag this week?" and intend it to mean that they are stupid.

Making an exhortation that "The mods have lost their minds!" is not to say "Gosh, are the mods stupid?" or "Stephen doesn't know what he's doing!" it's intended to say, "This situation is crazy, this is dumb, this situation shouldn't be this way," et cetera. That's proper use of expressive English language to me.

Now if someone says, "Hey Joe, you don't know what you're talking about. ..." now that's a personal insult and offensive.

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maybe i'm just on edge…
i felt insulted and then told i was thin skinned as if to say, hey, you're not allowed to feel insulted!

i will say this…rff is getting nastier with a very few who think it's just fine to be negative about everything…and i do think they should go/be banned, whatever…but i'm a mod not an owner so these people are safe for now…
and the immediacy that people turn nasty when things change around here is off putting at times.
 
Well, thank goodness you are not the owner. There would not be many of us left here......:rolleyes:

That's a joke. Okay?

I do understand where you are coming from. Sometimes the negativity here is a bit of a hassle. Such is life on a lot of photography forums. Someone's always pissed about something....
 
Godfrey said:
Hmm. As of last evening/this morning, my*latest 1024x768 image post is still being reduced to a small, blurry postage stamp sized photo.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143023

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That link leads to a page that is resized as a whole, font size and all, which is pretty strange - I did not expect a image to be capable of rescaling my browser or the site style sheet without my explicit consent. Does that picture have some mismatched (size, scaling or DPI) attributes in its headers?
 
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