New image file size restriction and attachment size limit ! Please read !

[Localjoe]

@Stefan

Thank You   Theres always a happy medium to be found. 

[amigo]

Stefan,

I know this is your call but please let me share some professional advice.

For starters, I would suggest to at least bump the attachment size to 80-100KB. Photos compressed at level 2 or 3 in Photoshop at 800x600 look like poor screen grabs of some low-res YouTube video...and there's no way you can make them fit 50KB without serious artifacts.

Next, there is a problem with the forum attachments posting. When you try to make a post with several attachments, if one of them is larger than the maximum allowed size, other uploaded attachments remain on the disk and do not get removed.
After you correct the over sized file and try to make the post again you get a message that file(s) already exists. This is a serious shortcoming of this forum software and is unacceptable from a usability point of view.

Also, I do not understand why are you downloading *all* of the attachments when you should only do incremental backups. It is a waste of your time getting the same files over and over again. I suspect that among those 4.5GB of attachments there are many dead/unlinked ones because of the issue I have outlined above.

Please consider switching to vBulletin forum. It is $160 for an owned license and it simply works. It is kept up to date with fixes and patches plus there is a gigantic community offering all kinds of free add-ons.

I am willing to donate you some money to help cover the purchase of vBulletin license and I am sure others here would be quite happy to pitch in a few $ to help.

[hartiberlin]

Hi Amigo,
I don?t want to switch from SMF/TP,
cause I really like it.

I enabled now encrypted Filename savings,
so you can upload the same filenames,
without being any hassle.

Okay, in an emergency it is more complicated to restore
the database, but you are correct, it was annoying,
that sometimes you had to rename the file names, just
to get them uploaded, when at the first try it timed out.

Hope this works now much better for us all.

The forum is now again faster again, as the
last days there were some issues with the server cluster I am on.

Regards, Stefan.

[Pirate88179]

@ Stefan:

I appreciate the way that you respond to our issues and actually listen to us.  Thank you.

Bill

[amigo]

Thanks Stefan