Automatic decreasing of attachment weight

wollastoni · Post by **wollastoni** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:26 pm

Hello,

My forum members are attaching tons of pictures everyday.
To avoid paying too much hosting fees due to picture attachment, I have set a limit of 800 kiB per attachment.

BUT this is an issue : many of my members stopped posting because they don't want to take the time to resize their pictures...

Is there a way to automatically downsize the attachment weight when someone uploads a heavy attachment ?
For example, when a member uploads a picture of 2000 kiB, the picture is accepted but automatically resized at 800 kib and stored at 800 kib on the server.
This way my server disk space would not increase too quickly and my members will stop complaining about not being able to upload pictures...

Thanks a lot for your help
Olivier

[Dimetrodon] · Post by **[Dimetrodon]** » Thu Sep 15, 2022 1:34 am

Hi.

Sorry, but I do not think there is an auto-resize in the core of phpBB. This sounds like extension territory. You can try posting an idea, but I do not think it would be implemented anytime soon. You can try Extension Requests or if you're willing to pay, the Wanted! forum.

Post by **KevC** » Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:58 pm

Just get them to use an image hoster like imgur or flickr.

Might be easier to request an extension to link an image hosting account to the forum so that they just have to click, upload and then the image is embedded from the external host.

[Dimetrodon] · Post by **[Dimetrodon]** » Thu Sep 15, 2022 6:25 pm

@KevC

It appears they have posted in wanted which makes the most sense tbh.

AmigoJack · Post by **AmigoJack** » Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:32 pm

KevC wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:58 pmimgur or flickr

No, both are rather social media than image hosters. There are hosters much more fitting for storing bulks of pictures:

AmigoJack wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:06 am
AmigoJack wrote: ↑Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:53 pm imgbox and ImageBam were very reliable for almost 8 years without quirky terms of service
And Imgur is a bad choice because...

Post by **KevC** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:59 am

First and foremost, they are image hosters, but never mind.

Post by **thecoalman** » Mon Sep 26, 2022 11:43 pm

Not sure what I'm missing here but if you set the max dimension on an image they are resized automatically client side. This would necessarily reduce the file size of image larger than those dimensions.

If for example you set the max height and width to 1500 which is more than sufficient for viewing on desktop you'll get a file size of about 250KB plus the thumb. Your mileage will vary with the file size depending on the image contents and this only applies to .jpg, .png will be much larger.