Could the maximum image size be raised?

[oneday]

500 KB is tiny these days, much detail is omitted

[Tom in Tucson]

The cost for storing large files has plummeted in the last few years. I think your request for using larger images is very logical, and since the days of using dial-up have all but vanished, this site is way overdue for a timely upgrade.

[DaveW]

To be honest I don't know, so have forwarded your question to Daiv.

Update Daiv replied:-

"Thanks for sending. I'm actually working on the server right now as it is maxing out the CPU usage."

DaveW

[jerrytheplater]

Increasing image size would make it easier to post pictures. It is a bit of a chore to resize and then post.

[DaveW]

We are not alone as modern phones and cameras are now churning out ultra large files which the Web has not kept up with. The BCSS Forum has had similar problems:-

https://www.forum.bcss.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=175314

Basically as I understood it anything of greater resolution than most forum users computer monitors can show is pointless. I have not kept up with things but they used to say in those days that most computer monitors had only had the resolution of an 8 megapixel camera, so no matter how many megapixels your camera had that's all you saw on screen?

I am sure most on here are more computer and photographic literate than I am and can tell us the equivalent resolution of todays average computer monitors and what that means for image size?

[anttisepp]

That's why I can't load my pictures here. If I could get them smaller in my phone...

[7george]

And why you guys want everything done in two seconds and with two fingers... Sit down behind the computer, edit and upload images somewhere to be hosted or just resized.

Aloe ferox

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[jerrytheplater]

And why you guys want everything done in two seconds and with two fingers... Sit down behind the computer, edit and upload images somewhere to be hosted or just resized.

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Aloes at Huntington gardens, San Marino.

No smart phone here. I use a mirrorless camera in RAW mode and resize and edit to jpeg on the computer. Then I use https://picresize.com/ to reduce to less than 500 kb. The forum must be reducing them even more because I just uploaded a 485 kb photo and once posted is said it is 200 something Kb.