Do you limit sizing on your forum?

[Baley64bit]

If you own a forum, do you limit the size of the pictures people can post?
I ask because I noticed when forums don't, the lag and delay is so bad.

 

[Dozzer]

I know of some forums that do this. For example some forums don't allow people to post pictures or videos at all. I think that's dumb personally.

 

[Baley64bit]

I know of some forums that do this. For example some forums don't allow people to post pictures or videos at all. I think that's dumb personally.

I agree. I have left forums for completely blocking it. I like to share things and that is part of any social platform online.

 

[Translations Cloud]

Absolutely yes!

and sometimes I add a cool effect called "Lightbox"

 

[Boroku]

Absolutely yes!

and sometimes I add a cool effect called "Lightbox" :smile:

What's the lightbox effect?

 

[Translations Cloud]

For example...

 

[Christopher1]

For example...

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that!

 

[Translations Cloud]

Your welcome

it is cool because it is light to load and allows you to have little previews and original picture with just a click

 

[Michael W. Smith]

We have to. I'm on free hosting and while I don't know how strict they are on this, I don't want to find out either. Even if I were to be on my own host, I would still limit it, because as someone else said, it can and sometimes does make the forum lag, which is not very good business for potential members.

 

[Tiffany]

I know that having too much get definitely make a website lag. I'm pretty sure it's the same with forums! And excessive lagging will irritate people.

 

[Ronan]

We have to. I'm on free hosting and while I don't know how strict they are on this, I don't want to find out either. Even if I were to be on my own host, I would still limit it, because as someone else said, it can and sometimes does make the forum lag, which is not very good business for potential members.

I definitely agree. It can create a lot of lag when people include large files.

 

[Allenafaith]

I do because I don't want my forum to lag.

 

[Blu3Blissey]

For lag reasons I think all forum owners should. I have been on some that don't and it is a mess in some of the threads. Taking over 30 seconds to load. No thanks!

 

[PSpringz]

I don't know anyone who doesn't set limits. Some people will set limits even when the pictures are resized within the forum's software.

 

[Zil]

A spoiler always comes in handy in situations like this and yes the majority of websites from what I've seen do.

It's also hard on mobile users since situations like this will drain and eat away at their bandwidth like it's candy.