System Upgrade

[Jeaston]

some people just over compensate

[RonZee]

Hmmm,, never thought about making the camera take lower resolution pics. I'll have to try it next time my camera is working,,,,

[FDRUCaptain]

Thanks for the update.

[midnitmike]

I kinda thought pic size was the issue, so whenever I upload I try to cut the resolution down to 640 x 480 before posting cause you really can't tell the difference on here anyway. Besides using "Paint" or any other graphics program to resize your pics there's another easy alternative built right into most of our phones. You can simply set your phones camera resolution to a lower value before taking your pictures and you won't have to resize them.

[Jaybo]

Go to the Google Play store app on your phone and search for picture resize - should be a bunch there.

[Flashback]

I had a feeling the pics were causing the bandwidth issue..large threads with many pics were the bane of the old site as well..you probably just need to delete all the pic piggy's like the scavenger hunt ........

[D-Fresh]

I’ve used PictureShrinker in the past on my PC and iPad, but am not sure what to use on my phone. Is there a PictureShrinker app for android?

Not a ‘droid user, sorry.

[Shores]

If you’re using a pc you can open a pic in the “paint” program that comes with windows, there is a “resize” function in it. As far as I know you can only do 1 pic at a time and re-save it at the smaller size, no batch resizing of multiple pics. I would assume there is a program out there that can do batch resizing?

I’ve used PictureShrinker in the past on my PC and iPad, but am not sure what to use on my phone. Is there a PictureShrinker app for android?

[D-Fresh]

Can someone please tell us how to resize photos that we have already taken?

If you’re using a pc you can open a pic in the “paint” program that comes with windows, there is a “resize” function in it. As far as I know you can only do 1 pic at a time and re-save it at the smaller size, no batch resizing of multiple pics. I would assume there is a program out there that can do batch resizing?

[highvoltage]

Thank you for the upgrade and for all you do to keep this forum open and running. Also thanks to Rock River.

[fastjohnny]

Thanks for the upgrade

[Shores]

Can someone please tell us how to resize photos that we have already taken?

[ItBeMe]

[BubbaKahuna]

Brad is correct. Upgrade has nothing to do with the picture issue.
I set a limit on how big a picture can be uploaded to the board.
It was previously unlimited, that didn't work out very well.

[MikeyC]

Ditto that, thank you for what you do and thank Rock River also. Keep up the good work.

[Brad_G]

Thank you for the updated information and your continued efforts on keeping this place running.

[BubbaKahuna]

Still working on the picture issue.
You CAN post pictures, just not giant ones.

There were some members apparently uploading pics directly from cameras/phones in SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION where each picture was over 10MB in size.
Every time those pics were viewed - even as a thumbnail inside a discussion - it would eat up obscene amounts of bandwidth.
For now, all pics must be under 1MB & will likely stay that way.

The most recent upgrade is outlined here (edited to remove site owner specific info):

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"Congratulations! Your vBulletin Cloud site www.roadstarclinic.com has been upgraded to vBulletin 5.5.4, the latest version of our software.

This version adds the option to set Avatars as the topic's status icons to improve the modern view of your forum.
It also includes significant improvements to security handlings such as Style Variable Validation, Security Headers / Anti-Clickjacking and Content Notifications.

A list of all the improvements contained in this release is provided here.

-- vBulletin Customer Service"

[Brad_G]

I believe the two are mutually exclusive. There hasn't been any update I'm aware of in regards to our data usage issue.

[Father Pobasturd]

I'm assuming after the upgrade pics will be allowed again.

[Greysnake]

Thanks Jeff!