Photo gallery - any interest?

[peteski]

It won't show up in the preview, since the images are only uploaded when you hit "Post".

Got it.

I don't remember the A-board having this?  Paul G. must have spent a fortune on hosting...

Sure did.  It was nowhere as easy as what you did, but I used that functionality all the time.  You had to attach the images separately, then manually insert the URL of the image into the post.  As far as the fortune goes, maybe that was one of the reasons the A-board was shut down.

[VonRyan]

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had this been a actual emergency you would have been instructed to turn to 1150 millicycles on your AM radio.

[Iain]

The problem is storage.  Do you want to spend a crapton of money on hosting?  Even something like Amazon S3 will get expensive fast.

Of course, you could put together your own box; I put one together for the NSHS not too long ago that ran me about $2.5k:  12 tb of disk space after raid 10, 24 GB ram, four core Xeon E3.  The problem you then run into is hosting; colos are not cheap.

[C855B]

Storage/bandwidth costs have to factor in all this, but that's a given.

An issue I've experienced is reliability over the long term. I was a moderator a while back on a forum with some pic hosting ability. We lost the pictures in a database crash, though we were still able to rebuild the threads more or less in their original form. Then the sysop moved the forum to another host, and it happened again - pictures lost, threads good. It was a case in point demonstrating that external or internal links are both vulnerable, with internal links the big loser in this instance because everything was lost, just not a single poster's links.

FWIW.

[peteski]

Storage/bandwidth costs have to factor in all this, but that's a given.

An issue I've experienced is reliability over the long term. I was a moderator a while back on a forum with some pic hosting ability. We lost the pictures in a database crash, though we were still able to rebuild the threads more or less in their original form. Then the sysop moved the forum to another host, and it happened again - pictures lost, threads good. It was a case in point demonstrating that external or internal links are both vulnerable, with internal links the big loser in this instance because everything was lost, just not a single poster's links.

FWIW.

Well, the A-board (decommissioned few years ago) is still up and the photos there are still accessible.  I'm very grateful to Atlas for leaving it up.

[tom mann]

Tried to do it with a photo from my phone, but the max upload size (understandably) is 500K. Most of us shoot camera photos at higher resolution/larger size, so the settings on the phone would need to be changed to adhere to this limit. Is it possible to upload a larger file and have the forum software resize it?

@Dave Schneider ,

I have been testing with very large photos (13MB) and they are uploaded and then resized to 70% quality at 1024px, so I expect that it is working but you didn't have permission before.  Can you look at this again?

[Philip H]

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had this been a actual emergency you would have been instructed to turn to 1150 millicycles on your AM radio.

That's a pretty cute little plane Von Ryan - care to elaborate?

[tom mann]

@Dave Schneider ,

I have been testing with very large photos (13MB) and they are uploaded and then resized to 70% quality at 1024px, so I expect that it is working but you didn't have permission before.  Can you look at this again?

Ok, it looks like non-admins are bound by the 500KB limit, even though the uploaded photo would be resized.  So I upped the limit to 5MB, just to ensure someone doesn't upload a 3GB tiff.  Either way, whatever is uploaded is resized.

[davefoxx]

Tom,

I may be a lone dissenter, but I'll add that I probably won't use the Photo Gallery.  Since my Atlas board days in the mid-2000s, I've used Photobucket to host my photos.  All of the other forums that I have participated in to date (e.g., TRW, NScale.net, and Trainboard) allow me to link to a photo in my Photobucket album in the exact same manner, so I probably won't alter the way I post photos on one particular forum.

DFF

[tom mann]

Tom,

I may be a lone dissenter, but I'll add that I probably won't use the Photo Gallery.  Since my Atlas board days in the mid-2000s, I've used Photobucket to host my photos.  All of the other forums that I have participated in to date (e.g., TRW, NScale.net, and Trainboard) allow me to link to a photo in my Photobucket album in the exact same manner, so I probably won't alter the way I post photos on one particular forum.

DFF

I'm thinking the same way.  I would like a gallery that allows me to post full resolution photos (~5MB) and link to them from here (like Picasa).  However, sometimes I would like to snap a photo with my phone and post it here quickly.  These type of photos I don't necessarily need or want to be in my gallery, since they might be for Railwire-specific content.

For example, one could do a tutorial and take the photos and post in real time. 

[wazzou]

However, sometimes I would like to snap a photo with my phone and post it here quickly. 

For example, one could do a tutorial and take the photos and post in real time.

Now this I would like.

[Dave Schneider]

Giving this a try from my phone.
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On my Android device it seems like I need to toggle to a different attachment style for it to insert the attachment code, but that isnt a big deal.

Best wishes, Dave

[wcfn100]

Just testing from the phone.

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Jason

[John]

It won't show up in the preview, since the images are only uploaded when you hit "Post".

I don't remember the A-board having this?  Paul G. must have spent a fortune on hosting...

If 10 needs to be changed, fine...but I have to be careful or I'll spend 80k/year very quickly...

this is the reason i dropped photo hosting fairly quickly -- the costs start to add up ..

[VonRyan]

That's a pretty cute little plane Von Ryan - care to elaborate?

It's a banquet gift.
At the summer camp I worked at as the maintenance assistant, they have an end of the season thing called Banquet.
Part of it is where all the staff make gifts for the kids, and all the older campers (14-years-old) make gifts for the staff.

The kid I was assigned to make a gift for is big into planes, so I knew right then that I had to make him a plane.
The body is a piece of scrap select-pine 2x3, and the wings and such are cedar shingles sanded flat and an airfoil.
The windshield is a piece of microscope slide with the edges polished smooth with 1000 grit sandpaper.
The propeller spins, courtesy of the motor from an old MRC C420, a switch, and a 9v battery.
The propeller itself is hand cut from a piece of sheet copper.
The US marking on the front is a 30-year-old decal from a B-24D "Liberator" kit that I had built as a kid.