Good day folks.

We have always had the luxury of uploading images full size and taking full liberty of the visual joys of large images and video embeds.

Starting today, in an effort to conserve server space, image uploads into topics and posts will be displayed as 400px thumbnails, and when clicked on, the image will enlarge to 1200px by 1000px max. So you'll see some changes in your topics and posts.

This may seem inconvenient or penalizing to some folks but believe me it's not penalizing, we are just trying to not have to keep going to a larger server and incurring more costs for larger servers.

As far as the inconvenience, I actually like laying out topics and posts with smaller thumbnails, from an editing perspective it allows for some neat looking layout if you are into that. For example, the smaller thumbnail images allow you to wrap text, most commonly used is the wrap text left as shown below.

Example

Sed lobortis lobortis sodales. Sed justo magna, lacinia id arcu a, sagittis maximus nisi. Phasellus molestie scelerisque justo. Aenean orci magna, aliquet at mi non, ultrices aliquet nunc. Maecenas tincidunt vitae dui in vulputate. Cras sollicitudin nisl in rutrum sagittis. Sed efficitur, leo nec interdum convallis, nisl quam ullamcorper velit, convallis pretium est nisl quis magna. Aliquam vehicula, nisl ac viverra commodo, tellus justo hendrerit urna, id sodales nisl mauris eget enim.

Aenean cursus maximus orci, in hendrerit purus dictum viverra. Pellentesque sed scelerisque magna, vestibulum gravida libero. Aliquam a lectus ac metus tempor bibendum. Aliquam tempor erat vel dui iaculis, eget pharetra massa hendrerit. Sed sed mauris non orci dignissim ultricies. Morbi hendrerit tortor sed tortor feugiat malesuada. Suspendisse porta lectus vitae congue sodales. Vivamus tempus, dui vitae tristique tempor, ligula nisi accumsan elit, id finibus tellus lorem eget metus. Proin ac enim risus. Nullam pellentesque vel neque nec finibus. Vestibulum eu nisi tincidunt, vestibulum nunc sit amet, fringilla elit. Integer ultrices tellus ac felis vulputate consectetur. Donec commodo viverra tempus. Integer tempus nisi ut ipsum ornare suscipit. Ut at lorem lorem. Proin ut aliquet elit, hendrerit condimentum tortor.

Sed lobortis lobortis sodales. Sed justo magna, lacinia id arcu a, sagittis maximus nisi. Phasellus molestie scelerisque justo. Aenean orci magna, aliquet at mi non, ultrices aliquet nunc. Maecenas tincidunt vitae dui in vulputate. Cras sollicitudin nisl in rutrum sagittis. Sed efficitur, leo nec interdum convallis, nisl quam ullamcorper velit, convallis pretium est nisl quis magna. Aliquam vehicula, nisl ac viverra commodo, tellus justo hendrerit urna, id sodales nisl mauris eget enim.

Aenean cursus maximus orci, in hendrerit purus dictum viverra. Pellentesque sed scelerisque magna, vestibulum gravida libero. Aliquam a lectus ac metus tempor bibendum. Aliquam tempor erat vel dui iaculis, eget pharetra massa hendrerit. Sed sed mauris non orci dignissim ultricies. Morbi hendrerit tortor sed tortor feugiat malesuada. Suspendisse porta lectus vitae congue sodales. Vivamus tempus, dui vitae tristique tempor, ligula nisi accumsan elit, id finibus tellus lorem eget metus. Proin ac enim risus. Nullam pellentesque vel neque nec finibus. Vestibulum eu nisi tincidunt, vestibulum nunc sit amet, fringilla elit. Integer ultrices tellus ac felis vulputate consectetur. Donec commodo viverra tempus. Integer tempus nisi ut ipsum ornare suscipit. Ut at lorem lorem. Proin ut aliquet elit, hendrerit condimentum tortor.

How

You can type out your text first, then place image, or place your image first then type your text, then in the image, you'll see at the upper right hand corner of the image, a "GEAR" icon, click on it, then select "Image Wrap" and choose "Left Wrap".

There is also another feature in the Gear icon called "Width", please for now do not use that, it'll kind of blow up the thumbnail and it looks awful, the image quality goes to poop.

So thanks ya'll and please have fun and thank you for all the wonderful content you are posting!

Video

Video thumbnail new size.

Click on the video to play, then click on the lower right corner expand icon for full screen.

@John Morris How would you add a picture to an IM, I can't seem to complete that task?

3 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

@John Morris How would you add a picture to an IM, I can't seem to complete that task?

Hey Bob, what IM service are you using?

I have not been able to do a "cut and paste" of an image into a post. Is this a problem? I have to save as a file, then attach the file.

12 minutes ago, kmealy said:

I have not been able to do a "cut and paste" of an image into a post. Is this a problem? I have to save as a file, then attach the file.

Hey Keith, where you cutting from?

Hey Keith, I copied pasted this image straight from my desktop PC.

Anywhere, but often Google Photos (from my phone, uploaded to the PC)