quote Originally posted by jscott1: Okay, point taken, I removed my big honking pic, but it doesn't help when someone else does a quote and re-posts the same pic!!

phpix scales images, and automatically generates thumbnails, and is easily themeable

If anybody's got a college dorm hooked to their network.. could setup some sort of linux box there to do the hosting It'd be VERY easy to use an FTP program or even hack PIP to upload pictures seamlessly..

James Z

My problem with hosting my pics locally is that if my server ever changes addresses or goes down, people won't get the awe-inspiring shots of my car anymore

(More importantly, I'd lose archived pics. I've noticed that several times when browsing through the archives...
"Here's the greatest pic of the greatest Fiero ever:" (big red X).

Anyway, if we host our own pics, is there a way to occasionally download the entire forum to burn to disc? I haven't sent for an Archive CD yet, but I plan on it soon.

Once again, three cheers for Cliff for creating such a great place for us to visit

Regards,

Is there a way to automaticaly downsize the picture at the Fiero.nl server so that only a thumbnail shows up on the thread that you are reading? If you really need to see the larger picture you could click on it to see the larger size. Seems to me that it would save a ton of bandwidth.

Some web sites do this, is this a feasable idea?
Us "dial-up' users would just love the massive increase in speed. Just a dumb thought but would it work?

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Dangerkitty "on the prowl"
Maroon 87 GT automatic, loaded, now with "sparkle wheels"

I don't mean to pick on Shaun here but i agree on this. In fact, i don't understand why people quote pics at all. When you quote someone just freaking edit the pic out! It takes about two seconds to do and would save a ton of banwidth. This happens day after day and multiple times in a single thread sometimes.
Seriously people, lets do some thinking here. I've noticed a lot of huge sigs too. Do you really need a sig that goes across the whole bottom of the screen??
What about animated sigs? I thought Cliff said no animated sigs or smileys but i notice them more and more. Yeah it's funny sometimes but you're draining off a valuable resource here from a guy that's giving it for free. I like to be able to post pics about events and articles like Tinas Car Craft appearence. Or pics for tech questions. A pic is worth a thousand words when answering a tech question. If everyone would be just a bit more conservative it would help and even a little bit would help some.
I'm not above this either. As i think back i know i've posted a bunch of pics in threads sometimes when 1 or 2 would have done fine. Time to tighten the belt a bit i think.