Picture Attachment

[TheMidg]

When attaching pictures on any thread on the forums, it displays a link to "download" it. This is pretty annoying because it creates a lot of unnecessary windows. And when someone posts a lot of pictures it becomes annoying. You used to have it so it just displayed the pictures, not the links. You seem to keep going back and forth between links and just displaying it. I and I am sure everyone agrees with me on this thinks it should go right back to the old way and just display the pictures that are attached.

Thanks for your concern~

~Midg

[TBoTB]

lol, having the links instead of the picture allows for a quicker d/l of thepage for the users that dont have high bandwith connections.

as for going back and forth, the ones you see that show up without links are those that host their own.

[TheMidg]

Originally posted by TBoTB
lol, having the links instead of the picture allows for a quicker d/l of thepage for the users that dont have high bandwith connections.

as for going back and forth, the ones you see that show up without links are those that host their own.

I see what you are saying. Maybe there could be someway to make it so you can choose(like how you can choose style of this site) how you want the pics displayed.

[TBoTB]

that does sound like a good idea =p

[Doppelganger]

why did you have to do this though?

the old way, you could choose wiether you wanted a pic or link from a [img.] caption, and it was modifiable though perferances (part of php bulletin boards from many different groups). the attachment pic has always has a choice of displaying pic or link, so that would be very unfair to wideband if you just allow link.

is there any major reason not to just have it that way and advise 56kers not to be stupid and actually change the settings? (i.e. band width for server is drastiaclly cut because of all of these pic dl's, database usage for these pics is slowed down, etc.)



tbot+and other mod/admin, if any part of my rant is just plain wrong, please feel free to correct me (please just post, ide hate to see my message fiddled with:sweat: )

[lieb39]

Well.. one way to bypass this, but not that good for 56k'ers is a easy way.. attach your picture, than post, than get the URL for the picture, edit your message, and add the picture with the IMG command..

like so:



-lieb39

[TheMidg]

Originally posted by lieb39
Well.. one way to bypass this, but not that good for 56k'ers is a easy way.. attach your picture, than post, than get the URL for the picture, edit your message, and add the picture with the IMG command..

like so:



-lieb39

Well as I can see, that doesn't work since your non-attachment pic doesn't work. And even if this did work it would still be too much trouble for all of the people posting the pics, not everyone wants to do that for ever pic.