Greetings all,
I'm working toward weaning myself from the drogues and plinks on DReview. Just way too much angst in return for a bit of technical content.
This place has always been uber (can we still use that word?) comfortable, so I'm leaning (heavily, Tower of Pisa, heavily
) on making this my "home away from home".
Couple of questions:
- None of my monitors is any higher resolution than 1080p. Is there a forum setting to resize the posted images to fit in one "screen"?
- In spelunking through settings, there is a selection to 'Opt-Out from viewing "The Oasis" content'. Qu'est que sais "The Oasis"?
- I've noticed that images that I post seem a bit muted/muddy. Is there a setting to tweak this so the images are more like what I see on my native Windows screen? If not are some ideas on settings for post processing (I use Capture One) that would make this less noticeable?
- Signatures seem to be a bit nondescript. Any way to "gussy them up", like this:
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Thanks all,
Greetings
I'm not sure I'm understanding #1 - All images displayed inline should be resized based on your browser size up to a maximum width. In case I'm not having enough coffee, can you walk me through what you're seeing?
Matt (MoonMind) is correct for #2, "The Oasis" forum was the result of some threads like guns & knives. There was a bit of a community disagreement as to whether those types of threads should be allowed and the compromise was a new forum that could be opted-out of from.
For #3, to minimize how much an image is 'touched' when it is uploaded, try resizing it to be 1600x1600 or less. Images higher than that will get automatically resized. There are various things involved that might cause an image to be touched when it is uploaded so the current settings are a trade-off between "
How big of a file should we accept for image quality?" versus "
How big of a file should we accept before members on slower connections really start to have performance issues?". If I knew that all of our members were on at least 100mb fast pipelines than the settings could be relaxed so that images are rarely touched but I know that a lot of our members are on slower connections and at least a few folks are still on slower mobile connections.
In regards to #4, Signatures, I had to go look at the settings to see what the current configurations are since it's been ages that they've been touched. At the moment no members are able to insert images, other than smiles and/or emoji, in their signatures and some formatting options are restricted to the 'Supporters' group. The reason, honestly, is to cut down the 'noise-to-content' ratio where some signatures were huge (
several lines, images & media, text formatted in all sorts of ways, and so on) while the actual post content would only be a few words or just a single sentence. On a slightly tangent topic, signatures are not shown to guests, only members when they are logged in. In the 'olden days' of the online world a common spam technique would be toss links and spam content in signatures so that they'll get picked up by search engines. That's not really a problem these days (
thanks to 'nofollow' links and smarter search engines) but signatures are still are turned off for guests so that the search engines find the on-topic posts content and not random stuff in signatures. But, circling back around, even for members who are logged in and viewing threads, it can be quickly distracting to browse threads where some signatures end up being more prominent than the actual conversation.
