Allowing such large images in a post goes beyond just being able to display it without a scroll bar. Scaling an image is only part of a well designed page, using appropriate file sizes is also important. You really need to use the thumbnail feature. A 1080 monitor is only effective for images that are about 2MP assuming full screen, once you account for the browser and page space you might be down to something like a 1.5MP image. The file sizes and dimensions on those images can be enormous, 10 images can easily morph into 50 to 100MB's on a single page. This can be problem for users on slow connections, metered connections and even your own server bandwidth limits. The other issue is server space.P_I wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:13 am Since phpBB 3.2.x provides a responsive default style (prosilver), do the ACP->Post settings and Attachment settings that are related to image dimensions really matter any more?
I had thought about this from the bandwidth perspective as well. The sites I'm involved with are generally text based discussions with the occasional chart or diagram used to support the narrative, so we're generally not dealing with photographs and other large files.KYPREO wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:13 am IMO image sizes don't really matter anymore when they are not hosted locally, other than perhaps from the perspective of bandwidth of the third party host and end user. This can be solved with thumbnails and the lightbox extension. I have image size in ACP>Post settings at 0.
Our sites are hosting on a decent shared hosting plan, so we already impose file size limits to manage the Attachments directory size.
If you set the dimensions you really don't need a file size limit for images because they will all be within X range. X would depend on the dimension.
You can set file size limits for specific types of files.
However https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... _settings/ indicates the setting asphpBB 3.2 ACP wrote:Minimum thumbnail file size:
Do not create a thumbnail for images smaller than this.
Those seem like quite different.phpBB 3.2 Admin Guide wrote:MAXIMUM THUMBNAIL FILESIZE: Thumbnails will not be created for images if the created thumbnail filesize exceeds this value, in bytes. This is useful for particularly large images that are posted.
That appears to be wrong. I have custom mod for thumbs so I'm not positive. I'm not even sure what the need or purpose of this setting would be and it's mixing apples with oranges.MAXIMUM THUMBNAIL FILESIZE: Thumbnails will not be created for images if the created thumbnail filesize exceeds this value, in bytes. This is useful for particularly large images that are posted.
That in a nutshell is my challenge. Figuring out how the various Image category settings work and interact with each other, specifically in phpBB 3.2.x with prosilver now being a responsive design.thecoalman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:24 am I'm not even sure what the need or purpose of this setting would be and it's mixing apples with oranges.
We're generally dealing with filesizes well under 1 MB, so there is some room to increase the dimensions allowed. I'm just trying to figure out what makes the most sense and whether some of our long ago set ACP settings are still appropriate after all the changes that have occurred in phpBB since they were probably established back in the phpBB 2.x days.