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Subject: Re: Photo sites, dial-up and image size

Date: Fri 20/04/07 16:11:38 GMT

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The sites you run all load quickly and are of a good size even for my 24k. Other photos are so big that I seldom bother to open them anymore these days. Not worth the wait. I don't understand why photos have to be larger 100k but if I had broadband, I would probably want the highest resolution I could get too. A 1.5mb photo will take at least 8 minutes to download for me with my dialup. I just don't have that kind of time. The worst are the ones that post multiple hi-res photos in one message. I can download each photo individually but it's just a pain to wait so long to find out what the photo will be.

Minumum of 10 minutes for me to download a 30 second Youtube. Most of them are not worth the wait either.

I am not blaming anyone as I am the one stuck on dial-up but things could be done for more enjoyment by more people. Using thumbs that actually have a small file size would be about the best thing as long as they refer to a larger file sized photo. I can't understand the purpose of a 1mb thumbnail. What's the point? There are better ways to do it.

Cropping photos would drastically reduce file size and bandwidth usage. Waiting 5 minutes just for the sky and scenery to load is no fun! ha!

SC usually times out before any photo is 1/3 completed.

Ah yes, it's hell living in a 21st century world and putting up with dial up!!!! ha!

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Photo sites, dial-up and image size

By Telcontar - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Fri 20/04/07 10:18:33 GMT

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Since MG brought up the issue of dial-up, I thought I'd ask more clearly this time -- are dial-up users happy with photo sites?

The most recent Liquid Ladies photo set, for example, has photos reaching 1 MB per image, which on dial-up would be particularly painful. On average, Liquid Ladies images are about 600 kB each, which would take a little while to get through (something like two minutes!) The thumbnails are too small to substitute as full-size images for dial-up users.

I don't know how other pay sites work, but they all seem to offer large images these days and it must be pretty uncomfortable for dial-up users to get into wetlook at all.

The sites that use Gallery 2, though -- Squishy Shoes and Tub Queens for example -- have thumbnail, medium and (extra) large image sizes all automatically generated. Dial-up users can settle on medium for the most part, and open the large images for those shots that are particularly special (and since some of them are freakin' 8 MP or something -- three times the width of my monitor -- go and have a long soak in the bath in your jeans while the modem sits and thinks about downloading a copy).

Is everyone happy with sites the way they are?

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