Posting pics

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takedown8

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Hi sp3ctre,

One of the best things about zpost is that you don't have to host your own pics. You can just upload the photos from your computer. I don't have my own pic posting site. Also, if the pics are hosted on the forum then there is less chance that after a few months, the pics will be gone. This is especially true for DIY's, pics of mods, aftermarket rims, etc.

Is it possible to host pics on the forum?
 
Thank for the idea. It is indeed a possibility and yes I can implement it quite easily. However, I do first need to take things into account such as backup sizes/data transfer, basic scaleability issues really. I want to get that all tied up before I allow the site to grow to such an extent. I'm sure you understand.

Maybe this is a good opportunity to get some feedback from people as to whether this would be something that would appeal to the masses. I hear your point about keeping things on-site, so how-to's don't disappear etc.

If this is something people want then I can assure you I will implement it... but I will leave it how it is for a week or so, get some feedback, then we'll sort something out... sound ok?
 
I think that storing all images could be a liability since they can easily occupy much space, but that all depends on your hosting level, Sp3tre.

As a middle ground maybe we could have a rule to only allow uploading pictures for important stuff, like DIYs & how-to's.

The rest which is 'expendable' could be stored off site like today.
 
Sounds reasonable to me... for the time being I have the hosting capacity, but I am new to this and am not sure how fast it is going to grow. I like this idea a lot and would go for that idea in the first instance, as it is v.important to keep important things on-site.

Once i have a handle on things then we could re-asess the situation.
 
Just only allow hosting of pictures in two places: Gallary and How-to section. And limit to say 200 Kb per pic or so
 
pvr said:
Just only allow hosting of pictures in two places: Gallary and How-to section. And limit to say 200 Kb per pic or so
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This sounds like a reasonable suggestion, but some of the DIY pics might not be easy to see the detail if they are limited to 200K.
 
I think if you allow pics to be posted in all the sections, this forum would be a lot more helpful and a lot more amusing. It's always a hoot to post funny pictures and stuff too.
 
Still looking into it... the next version of phpbb supports it natively without plugins, so if we're going to go for it I'd sooner wait for that to come along...
 
takedown8 said:
I think if you allow pics to be posted in all the sections, this forum would be a lot more helpful and a lot more amusing. It's always a hoot to post funny pictures and stuff too.
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Hey Sp3ctre,

I guess you're not allowing photos to be hosted on the forum after all, eh? I'd like to post pics of a recent meet, but I don't have a hosting account and don't plan on getting one.

I wish you would change this. It's so easy to just upload and post pics on zpost.
 
takedown8 said:
Hey Sp3ctre,

I guess you're not allowing photos to be hosted on the forum after all, eh? I'd like to post pics of a recent meet, but I don't have a hosting account and don't plan on getting one.

I wish you would change this. It's so easy to just upload and post pics on zpost.
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I'll host your pics, takedown8. Pics with :hooters: are welcome too.
 
Come on, give me a break will ya?! This version of the forum software does not support uploads... the next one does. Once the next one is installed (should be soon) I will review it and see if we can implement it.

You must understand the first and foremost priority is the stability if the forum and the integrity of the data. Please understand I am hosting this for free and as such need to do all I can to keep costs down. My present backup solution backs up the full site... if I can replace this with an incremental solution it will help, but I haven't had time to set this up just yet. Between bandwidth and disk space issues it really is not a simple case of "just turning it on".

Of course I do want to implement features if it makes life easier for the members, and the obvious benefit of this feature is the pics stay on the server, so will never disappear, but I just need to make sure it's planned properly.

As for ythe following comment...

takedown8 said:
I don't have a hosting account and don't plan on getting one.
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...why won't you just sign up to photobucket in the meantime? It's really quick and easy to do, and would be a good solution until we have uploads available on this server.

Like I said, I'm not preventing uploads to make your life difficult, just because I need to make sure I have everything in place to make the site scaleable.

Lastly, I would just point out that z4um never had uploads (I think!), and nobody complained about that.
 
Not sure if it helps, but if you look at Dreamhost the disk quotas are silly ... currently, for the $9.95 a month plan you get 145GB, which increases by 1GB a week. You get 1.45TB of bandwidth a month, rising by 16GB every week.

Perhaps a few of us could chip in a couple of dollars (they're worth pennies these days, anyway!) and use something like this for hosting images?

All this assuming it would be easy to upload images through the board to that hosting.

David.
 
sp3ctre said:
Come on, give me a break will ya?! This version of the forum software does not support uploads... the next one does. Once the next one is installed (should be soon) I will review it and see if we can implement it.

You must understand the first and foremost priority is the stability if the forum and the integrity of the data. Please understand I am hosting this for free and as such need to do all I can to keep costs down. My present backup solution backs up the full site... if I can replace this with an incremental solution it will help, but I haven't had time to set this up just yet. Between bandwidth and disk space issues it really is not a simple case of "just turning it on".

Of course I do want to implement features if it makes life easier for the members, and the obvious benefit of this feature is the pics stay on the server, so will never disappear, but I just need to make sure it's planned properly.

As for ythe following comment...

takedown8 said:
I don't have a hosting account and don't plan on getting one.
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...why won't you just sign up to photobucket in the meantime? It's really quick and easy to do, and would be a good solution until we have uploads available on this server.

Like I said, I'm not preventing uploads to make your life difficult, just because I need to make sure I have everything in place to make the site scaleable.

Lastly, I would just point out that z4um never had uploads (I think!), and nobody complained about that.
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Mate,

You will never keep everyone happy.

In the mean time why doesn't someone Set up a Photobucket account which has easy account name and password ie

Account: z4-forum
Password: photos

Then anyone can post there pics up on that account, you (Admin) can save them if you want as its all in one place plus you dont have to worry about file sizes on your site. Just maybe suggest no photos over 600kb and 1mb for diy or how to photos.

I haven't got a photobucket account but it would be great to have one account for here just to drop photos onto.

Just a thought.

Cheers

PaulN
 
Both ideas are ok... although I don't think we could reliably link just images to a dremhost account. Also, I see no reference on their site to a SLA. I would prefer to keep the hosting to a single datacentre if possible.

The second idea is ok, but I'm just not sure about allowing lot of people in on the one account. Firstly I think it may go against their terms of service, and secondly it is open to abuse (deleting other people pics etc).

It is obvious this is an issue that needs addressing... I will do that as soon as phpbb3 is out (unless someone wants to pay for a vbulletin or invisionboard license!)

What I dont want to do is implement a mod now, only for it to leave perviously uploaded images stranded when the mod breaks when we upgrade.
 
First and foremost, let's try to keep this site as ad-free as possible!

When you have to start hosting large bits of info or pics, data storage and bandwidth become an issue. I do not think that Sp3ctre should feel obligated to store pics when it is free and easy to link on many hosting sites (I use Flickr).

It is one thing to request a mod to the layout that is a programming tweak or script, but quite another when it may involve monetary expenditures.

Just my 2 cents (as usual) :D

Cheers!
 
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