Photograph Uploads

Dear members,

We have a storage limit of 100Mb imposed upon us by Xobor.
This limit applies to anything attached to a post and anything uploaded into the Picture Gallery.

Some judicious pruning and resizing sessions over the last two years has kept us below this limit without spoiling current members posts or gallery albums.
Just two months ago we were at 15% capacity, today we are at 103% and Xobor are shouting "Achtung" at us.

Members can assist in keeping us below this limit by resizing their photo's, etc, before uploading them. I suggest somewhere around 350Kb file size for photographs and much less for other images and documents.
We can also edit our own photo gallery albums and replace oversized shots with more modest versions.
There is a trade off between quality and file size but for the purposes of a computer screen large files are unnecessary.
The main thing to remember is that modern digital cameras and scanners produce photographs that will fill the side of a bus.

Being selective about what to delete takes hours of work and has become more difficult.
Therefore I propose to start removing files based only on size, regardless of when or by whom they were uploaded and only as much as is required to make reasonable space for new uploads.
This is a self regulating method of control as the largest files, unfortunately also the worst offenders, will be at the top of the list for early deletion.

This forum is based around our images and photo's so please keep them coming, just make them a bit smaller.

Thank you
Voltman

volty so does this limit just apply to photos..maps etc not the written word..i only ask as ive never been a counter of how many posts have been made and by who...so long as the forum is still going thats good enough for me but threads like open all hours which funnily enough i started 5 years today has nearly 34000 posts and 2266 pages none of it apart from last nights posts are ever really going to be read again..just wondered if large threads like this make a difference to the mb we are allowed?? same thing with the in the news threads..old hat now and could be culled if it will help..

just my thoughts

lyn