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Termyn8or -> RE: TOS (3/28/2010 3:26:43 PM)
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Actually I don't think you need three neurosurgeons to do this. There is the thingy for inserting a picture, just insert the text "Please limit filesize to less than 200KB". Possibly go on to say "Files larger than 200KB may be deleted" unless they are really really good or whatever.
I think something like that would be reasonable and not so hard to implement, or perhaps 200KB is too much, that's not up to me, it's more what the system can handle. I don't kno how or why these limitations exist, but for example I am in a professional website pretty much for work. It actually costs money, and the limit for a shared file in X MB. Now we are talking 2,000 page service manuals in some cases, and sometimes the need to be proken up by Winrar or some other compression software. I think the limit is something like 20MB. What I don't understand there is why it is OK to upload three 15MB files for Winrar to reassemble, but it won't take the whole file at once. The net result is the same, the bandwidth, disk usage and processing power required to service the function doesn't really change. Yet the limitation exists.
However inserting picture is a diffent thing, as it's not going to come down to "Click here to reassemble the file and display it in a new window" because that would wreck the whole thing.
Actually we could all send in some money and CM could get better servers, a few more terabytes and maybe even a faster connection if one is available, but everybody is broke these days so so much for that. Plus they seem to have a real aversion to charging, which is a good thing.
Realize this, an animated GIF contains each and every frame of the animation. That means one picture could contain one, or a thousand frames. I had Microsoft GIF animator and I saw what happens to the filesize when you put one together, and the compression is not all that good. You could hit 200 KB real quick.
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