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Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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As mentioned, the storage is not a concern in this case. Additionally, the control and flexibility that hosting the files gives us far outweigh the cons in this case.
I think I'd be in favour of a *small* thumbnail. No nasty shocks there, and less open to abuse I'd think. It'd much easier to catch abuses earlier as if, as a mod, you don't click on the link you have no idea if it's offensive or not, so am not going to pick that up as quickly. Naturally that's only drive-by modding compared to reported posts though.
Jeremy, I can't see those example images. Gives me a permissions error, which I assume I shouldn't be getting. No biggy.
Last edited by acid_kewpie; 01-22-2009 at 05:33 AM.
I think I'd be in favour of a *small* thumbnail. No nasty shocks there, and less open to abuse I'd think. It'd much easier to catch abuses earlier as if, as a mod, you don't click on the link you have no idea if it's offensive or not, so am not going to pick that up as quickly. Naturally that's only drive-by modding compared to reported posts though.
Jeremy, I can't see those example images. Gives me a permissions error, which I assume I shouldn't be getting. No biggy.
I agree.
I am more in favor of a small thumbnail rather than a link.
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Based on feedback, I have switched the thumbnails back on. I've also enabled this for Senior Members and Members in a beta capacity. During this testing time, please post any issues or suggestions in this thread. After the testing time has passed we'll either mark the feature as officially supported or make the decision to disable it.
some people are still using dail up this would be an unfair burden on them
The size of the thumbnail is about 20k so that the thread page should not be so heavy to upload from dial up - in my opinion. Then one is free to click on the thumb to see the full image or just ignore it (same behaviour for links to external image hosting sites).
Edit: due to my bad english I used a wrong expression to tell "go on", "just ignore it", "proceed"... the wrong expression was "pass away": I was told it means "to die". Sorry if I offended someone: not my real intention. Thanks, Tinkster for let me notice!
LQ is a clean site. As long as it remains a clean site, I don't have a problem with the thumbnail. (I'm just getting the default image icon thing and a link)
I've avoided another site before due to the warning that the content was Safe for work, but some of the avatars were not. I don't want to have to avoid LQ because of the images that may be uploaded.
LQ is a clean site. As long as it remains a clean site, I don't have a problem with the thumbnail. (I'm just getting the default image icon thing and a link)
I've avoided another site before due to the warning that the content was Safe for work, but some of the avatars were not. I don't want to have to avoid LQ because of the images that may be uploaded.
To clarify, I realize that this is not a discussion about avatars (LQ will not implement avatars on the forum), but simply an example of what images have done to another website, namely made me not visit there.
I would like LQ to be very careful and mindful about non- G rated images.
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