Your reality must be everyone elses????
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Originally Posted by
HammaHed
OK the original reason I spat chips about the issue of reducing images to both dimensions and file sizes is because:
a) I post lots of articles on lots of other sites; and one of my favourites is Instructables.
That has the feature or programming of being able to upload ones images as is; and then
Display the image in a reduced, but fairly reasonably sized image - on the web page; and
With two more clicks, one can then jump from the "smaller" image to a medium image and then to the full sized image.
I reckon that system works really great.
In this enlightened age of vested self centeredness, and the tendancy to perceive ones own range of expereinces and facilites as applicable to everyone else...
Where the frustration comes into this for me, is that while I can reduce images down in dimensional size and file size - the software I have for doing these process's - and I have a fair range at my disposal; well the best and easiest software works fine for general reduction - fast and easy and they do batches etc., to really begin to push the limits down to very small sizes - especially the file size; well it kind of gets to be frustrating guessing the amounts of reduction for different images and their image content.
So I get to be thinking...... this is just too much effort, and after using the really "up to date" websites, I feel as if I realy don't want to be doing these kinds of reductions and image modifications - specifically for this site.
And while the opinions run thick and fast along the lines of "My reality is everyone elses too" - the lack of objective imformation is where the matters raised in this fashion become invalid.
While SOME people may be on dial up, I think there is an awful lot who are on broadband - and by using the "Instructables" website of handling images, that would cater for everyone; but having moved off dial up a few years back, dial up has as much appeal as upgrading to a 486; and backing all my stuff up on floppies.
So I put that forward that the broadband users ARE in the overwhelming majority and dial up users are in the kind of extreme minority - and by using the "Instructables" webistes method of handling images, as slow as dial up actually is - this format still caters for everyone.
I also hear screeches of "server space etc.," while not being utterly ofay with every detail of every server setup; for those who are doing the Luddite proclaimations - in case you had not noticed 1 Terrabyte SATA drives with 32M of cache can be had for around $130...
I also see a few people proclaiming how wonderful this site is, they are doing it all for us, for free...
Setting aside the issues of "My perspective is the how the world operates" and the countering of these misunderstandings with fact - to get back to my original point - being the very reason for my starting this thread;.
From some of the more insightful and market savvy posters along with my own frustrations at taking backward looking steps to cater for this sites image handling; I feel that there are many good personal and buisness reasons for improving and upgrading the sites image handling capabilites.
HammaHed
The thought has occured to me that you perhaps have just come to the probably quite unpleasant realisation that YOUR reality is not quite the ideal nirvana that you fervently hoped that it is. Just because you may have an opinion on a particular issue ( and i for one don't see it as a particularly critical issue) does not mean that you have all the answers to questions no-one has asked.
Discovering that there is a generally happy community that gets along quite nicely with their different to yours form of reality could well be quite traumatic for someone so arrogant as to come in to an existing, long running online community and within a dozen or so posts start telling everyone how to do things
I have a lot more respect for those on encountering a new situation, watch what is going on for a while, ask a few questions about why the answer is 42 before jumping in head first and making suggestions about how the way your reality works is the panacea to all the problems we all apparently suffer from.
Even those who have expressed opinions here about photo sizes etc have stuck around, ie, they have the common sense to realise that while they might prefer a different method of operation, they are prepared to work with what is available.
You want everyone to use the programs you use and suggest that we all go out and spend $130.00 just to store photos. Is it possible that you may have some vested interest in these programs, businesses or other websites you spruik?
While there are those that have advocated you being banned in various different phrasings, I think that it is inevitable that you will either lose interest, be able to drum up business elsewhere if that is what you are actually doing, you will be banned or you will learn to get along with others better once you realise that there is more than one way to skin a cat than just flogging it senseless and stop wading in feet first and accusing everyone here of being backward Luddites.
Ray153