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Users don't have a clue of what is good for them. That sounds very arrogant :roll:

Which type of user do you mean?

the end-user of a board who is very often "eye-orientated" and says: "this site looks good, i stay"?
the owner of a board who has to decide which style to use depending on the ...

At the moment, there is only a limit for the dimensions in ACP, not for the file size. It defaults to 0*0, which means no checking, and i think that most board owner will leave it this way.
But even if you change it to a value like 100*100, it simply can be "tricked", because it is only checked ...

If you're viewing the post the image would already be resized - correct? So you wouldn't have to worry about your data cap. Only if resizing is done on phpBB side, could be

reading the image from the "foreign site" (50MB 5000*4000px), resizing [this can be done with gd or imagemagick] to maximum ...

... if an image is currently too wide, the right bit is hidden.
I think its depending on the style. It must be defined in the css (overflow:hidden or similar), other style may use no clipping.
It's possible to make JS resize it so that all of it is displayed, and if someone clicks on it then it ...

Is the request about [img]-Images or attachment-images?
For attachments, there is already a resizing for the optionally generated thumbnails, so maybe this code can be used during upload-process.

For [img], any kind of resizing can only be done in the browser (eg. by width/height - Parameter for ...

The problem with this is on boards that have thousands of attachments the attachment id may very well have been expanded to a full 32-bit field.
So, those boards are modded, and the subfolder-attachment function has also the need be modded like in other cases board owners decide to change default ...

This has the advantage that given a filename hash, it is easily possible to figure out the path to the filename without prior knowledge of how many levels of subdirectories exist.
Oleg, thank you for your suggestion.
Following your syntax, we will have a flood of new folders on the first ...

I would guess this is just a problem because you are using ancient technology (i.e. probably FTP) for creating backups. For example rsync would just work fine and wouldn't care about it at all. I think its a problem for nearly all "normal" website owners residing on shared hosting: They normally do ...

Personally, i dislike large images in post at all for different reasons.
But in my opinion resizing is much better than having a scrollbar
It should have no effect on browser performance, because in both cases the browser has to load the image complete. Having full-size images, it will break the ...

Unknown Bliss wrote:The they can use the edit PM button?

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