Article Discussion: Review: IB Forums

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Unfortunately (and I think the CMS is to blame), the images are once again blured and can't be maximized so for this case useless ;(

The images appear blured because they have been reduced in quality to save bandwidth. If you can think of a way around this problem, we be more then interested in knowing about it.

Regards
Ben Rowe

Is the gain really that important by reducing the image quality ? I mean did you really notice a bandwith improvement ? Because maybe the ads (which are necessary of course) use pretty as much bandwith ?

What I mean by that is that's it's too bad the images aren't clear enough, it forces us readers to find the source images by ourselves, with is annoying typically for this article where the esthetic content is primordial. It can easily be done (but I have nothing to teach you on that ) with imagecopyressampled etc...

That's all, I think you should rethink your philosophy on that, that's all, and maybe i'm the only one

It isnt our CMS, we manually resize the images, and reduce the quality.

Hum ok i though the layout and image place/upload was done through your CMS, therefore the image treatement done through the cms too

I'd say forgo the bandwidth consideration and give us something readable. If the article is important enough for someone to read, then I'm sure they'll be willing to wait a few seconds longer for the image to download.

I'd be interested in devArticles doing a Poll on how many users use dial-up, DSL, broadband, or other to access devArticles.

...david

Thats a good idea. Or perhaps, you could find a mirror server for the images? So that way, they can be showed blurred, but when someone clicks on it, they will get a full sized image off the mirror.

Ok, thanks for your comments!

What we have decided to do, is leave the images on the page they way they are, well will include the full size images, in the zip suport file.

This is for now, if we get heaps of article that require the full size images, we might look at thumbnails and popups?? something like that.

I much prefer this option because when visitors are on the road a lot (like me) we cannot download .zip files to shared computers (say, at the airport). I think that people should just be able to click the thumbnail and then see the full-size image in a new winodw.

In regards to the article: I think that people should not be able to change their usernames by themselves. People begin to associate usernames with people (i.e. mytch with Mitchell Harper). If people are allowed to change their usernames by themselves, people would constantly be changing them...a pain for every member of the forums. Now, if the administrator could approve/not approve the member name change, or only allow users to do it so often, then maybe that would work.

Just my thoughts.

I agree with Corbb on that one...

A username gives identity to a poster. Allowing users to change their names at their own will causes confusion and can also pose some security issues.

Besides, I like knowing who's who and not have to keep after everyone's name change.

I know, i feel the same way, but some other people like to use that feature so it is always good for a board to have it. As stupid as it may sound, someone might choose another board SOLELY because it has that feature.