Posted on 07/27/2014 9:47:24 AM PDT by beebuster2000
Because maintaining a website like FR is expensive enough without storing hundreds of thousands of images. There are plenty of free image hosting sites like tinypic.com and imgur.com. Just upload the file to their site and link to it.
That would significantly increase the bit rate, bit volume, and storage requirements for the FR servers and likewise the cost and performance of operations. So as indicated by the other posts, the solution is to link images stored on 3rd party servers intended for image distribution.
Well, finally...an intelligent suggestion!
Does the app (like Photobucket) automatically generate the complete html code (including the <, img src, “”, =)? Thanks.
Agree. Most sites that allow image uploads will have multiple servers just to handle the storage and serving up of images in web posts.
Given some threads tend to be image heavy (especially the "Not Guilty!!" threads if you know what I mean ....) FR would require multiple servers to store and serve those images up in a speedy manner --- meaning without affecting our user experience.
Images suck up valuable bandwidth, and most browsers have a limit of the number of HTTP threads the browser can efficiently use to display information on the end users computer.
By spreading the IO of pictures out across multiple servers from a single location, it helps to speed up the page loading process, but hosting those images on FR itself would still suck up valuable bandwidth resources.
Loading those pictures from another source not located at FR for example, leaves FR's web server threads available to serve up the web page's html code efficiently, while letting some other site "eat" the bandwidth cost of downloading pictures on a thread every time a user opens up that thread.
So while some may bemoan FR's inability to host images, there is a big cost savings benefit to not hosting images in terms of bandwidth and servers required.
There is therefore, a certain genius behind not enabling FR to upload and serve up images that are not directly related to the day to day operations of FR itself.
Put it into your CD/DVD tray, close it, and press Enter. That works too!
Hi, if ya wanna get rid of the sidebar, login, click ‘Account’ @ upper left, then click ‘manage blocks’ and under ‘region’ are dropdown boxes for each containg the option ‘disabled.’ Do that for all the boxes listed in your sidebar selection and the sidebar will disappear. You can reenable one or all at any time. As for the search, it seems to be catch-as-catch-can. Proper keywords help...
Hi, if ya wanna get rid of the sidebar, login, click ‘Account’ @ upper left, then click ‘manage blocks’ and under ‘region’ are dropdown boxes for each containg the option ‘disabled.’ Do that for all the boxes listed in your sidebar selection and the sidebar will disappear. You can reenable one or all at any time. As for the search, it seems to be catch-as-catch-can. Proper keywords help...
Hi, if ya wanna get rid of the sidebar, login, click ‘Account’ @ upper left, then click ‘manage blocks’ and under ‘region’ are dropdown boxes for each containg the option ‘disabled.’ Do that for all the boxes listed in your sidebar selection and the sidebar will disappear. You can reenable one or all at any time. As for the search, it seems to be catch-as-catch-can. Proper keywords help...
I agree.
Don’t change FR to allow images to be uploaded. That is just a waste.
Yay, I did my first photo post..Thanks so much for the instructions, so simple.
Apologies to all. Forum hiccuped, told me ‘Thank you for your comment, it has been submitted for review.’ Me: “What? What’d I do?”
Does anyone have any ideas on why my right click on my mouse doesn’t work on some FR pages?
Judging by the post date, you’ve managed to construct a computer, connect to the internet and post to a website 238 years before now. Surely you can learn a little HTML!
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You turned my washer and dryer.
LOL!!!
Yeah, me too. I have no trouble with this site on my non-smart phone, kindle (both Fire and old keyboard kindle) nor in any of the popular browsers on Windows or Unix/Linux/bsd.
There is a lot to be said for keeping things simple and lean and fast.
Yea!!
Now for your next lesson, learn to add a donate code and join the FReepathon team (example follows.) They could use some more members...
You can even add a title or other text to your photo. (Hover your mousiething over the photo...;-)
It's really easy once you know how to get the photo posted... ;-)
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