GigAHerZ wrote on 2022-07-02, 19:37:

Btw, "huge images" also can not be loaded. The upload limit is 5MB, yet once uploaded, it recompresses such images into roughly 1,5MB files.

5MB is not a lot, especially, if its only for a moment. May i ask to increase that limit? Classic mobile phones do easily bigger files than 5MB. What mattes is the size after resizing & recompression, right? Let's resize, recompress and whatever, but may we have the 5MB limit increased to something like 15MB?

I would suggest it once again. Every time i want to upload any image, it's super inconvenient to resize manually and save separately all my images just for the Vogons forum.
If the one-time upload bandwidth is truly so expensive (5MB is roughly 8 clicks through this website with no picture content to spend the same amount!), there are ways to do resizing on client side using either JS or WASM.

IIRC, the issue was/is storage of attachments not upload/download. One image may not be "huge" but all images together from 2002 to today may be.
There are no advertisements here nor subscription fees.
Linking pictures elsewhere results in link breakage over time.
Snover would likely need to re-evaluate storage requirements over time against the $$ required for storage to determine if an increase in attachment size is possible.

DosFreak wrote on 2024-07-02, 18:40:

IIRC, the issue was/is storage of attachments not upload/download.

And this is irrelevant anyways as the forum re-encodes and does whatever it wants with the pictures anyways...

This suggestion is purely user experience question. At most, it's one-time bandwidth and CPU cycles cost, nothing else.

Well that is what happens when you quote an old post asking about increasing the limit.

If you are asking about resizing the images client side instead of server side and not about increasing attachment size then the issue is always about how custom Snover wants to make the board and how much effort to put into it. Anything custom would interfere with upgrades but there may possibly already be that functionality available in the board software or a plugin for it assuming as always that it works correctly across all possible browsers that are used to browse vogons. It's likely server side was done since that was the easiest most compatible way to do it but I'm just guessing.

I've never upped a picture even one megabyte in size. If I need the fidelity to demonstrate something (i.e. a 16-bit buffer, for GPU posterity) I can crush a PNG losslessly and the forum should leave that intact and it'd likely be low res enough to go under even half a meg easily. All my megabyte attachments tend to be audio recordings, video drivers, and extremely obscure shareware and they're very few.

Another thing to think about is the extremely sharp increase in AI harvesting spiders that have been hammering forums all over the place recently out of certain A-lettered-company's data centers, ignoring robots exclusions and all because damn the torpedoes full LLM ahead. A bad habit of uploading gigapixel photos in slowly loading big photo attachments won't help Vogons from them.

DosFreak wrote on 2024-07-02, 18:55:

Well that is what happens when you quote an old post asking about increasing the limit.

The discussion was basically identical then. The context was identical then. (The forum worked exactly the same back then)
That is exactly why i'm quoting my own post from that time to bring this topic on to the table once again.

I believe there is no reason to support "huge" images, but please at least write (somewhere) what is supported. What size of images, what formats, etc. It is possible to upload SVG images on this forum for example?

Plz stop changing my mouse pointer!

Also I don't understand all the "in-jokes" or whatever "Heart of gold", "Milliways" means. Which makes browsing the forum annoying

16ShadesOfOrange wrote on 2024-08-27, 12:31:

Also I don't understand all the "in-jokes" or whatever "Heart of gold", "Milliways" means. Which makes browsing the forum annoying

Not really essential to navigating the forums, but that does sound like a good excuse to read the “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series and improve your knowledge of Pop culture.

16ShadesOfOrange wrote on 2024-08-27, 12:31:

Plz stop changing my mouse pointer!

I have a suggestion that could make everyone happy.

Is there a possibility to make an option in user profile to choose if they want the custom mouse pointer or not?

This way everyone would be happy - those who want it and those who don't.

Hi everyone. Maybe it's just me experiencing this, but for the past few days I keep getting logged out of the site. For a long time (years?) I logged in once and that was it but for the past few days (maybe since a week?) every time I revisit vogons.org I have been logged out and have to log in again. Not a major drama of course but it used to be pretty nice not having to constantly log in on each day. Maybe the session timings have changed or something?

Create a datahoarder forum similar to the one on Reddit! 😉 😉

16ShadesOfOrange wrote on 2024-08-27, 12:31:

Plz stop changing my mouse pointer!

+1!!!

Those on desktop browsers, with ublock origin, may add this custom rule to block mouse cursor changes :
vogons.org##*:style(cursor:auto !important)

Shreddoc wrote on 2024-08-29, 21:14:

Those on desktop browsers, with ublock origin, may add this custom rule to block mouse cursor changes :
vogons.org##*:style(cursor:auto !important)

Thanks! Hate it when websites do those kind of things.

Yoghoo wrote on 2024-08-29, 21:51:

Shreddoc wrote on 2024-08-29, 21:14:

Those on desktop browsers, with ublock origin, may add this custom rule to block mouse cursor changes :
vogons.org##*:style(cursor:auto !important)

Thanks! Hate it when websites do those kind of things.

Glad it helps. I don't really notice the Vogons mouse cursor change here, because it's very similar to my OS standard pointer. But it's nice to be aware there are client-side options such as the above for users who feel strongly enough about it.

There are probably other client-side ways to locally filter or override it - I'm not really a web guy, but I think the mouse cursor change is a CSS thing.

Shreddoc wrote on 2024-08-29, 21:14:

Those on desktop browsers, with ublock origin, may add this custom rule to block mouse cursor changes :
vogons.org##*:style(cursor:auto !important)

Thank you!

EDIT: This unfortunately kills all other cursor definitions in the forum. Links, including picture links, are here made with some custom approach so the browser doesn't understand natively that they are links. Therefore it doesn't put a "finger icon" on the cursor. The vogons forum does it on it's own, though. But with this custom rule, that disappears and all links have just normal "arrow" cursor.

Damn, why can't these vogons forum developers just stop doing weird sh*t and ruin a default good experience!?

This CSS override rule does not work for AdGuard on Safari 🙁

Folks, it's a mouse cursor, get over it.

ldeveraux wrote on 2024-09-03, 12:10:

Folks, it's a mouse cursor, get over it.

I agree.

Hard or impossible to stop audio/video playback that autostarts on a web site ? That's a real issue/problem/annoyance .

A custom cursor ? The only way I personally see that as potentially being problematic is if it is somehow an accessibility concern (i.e. somehow interferes with assistive technology or settings) or causes issus for people with specific disabilities. I can't really imagine how that could theoretically happen, TBH, so I suspect this is really a longshot scenario anyway.