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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Suggestion???

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Hey Rich, was wondering if you would consider an image resizer add-on, that automatically resizes the images people attach to, or put directly in the post, to a more reasonable size?

vBulletin.org has one that I use at Boaddiction, and it hasn't caused a single hitch for me so far. We run 3.8, but the add-on is wrote for your version of VB. You have a license, so you should have access to the download area. It's a really simple install too.

Here's the thread concerning the add-on if you're interested...

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=184571


Anyway, if you'd consider, it would eliminate the stretching of the browser window when you view a thread with images posted straight from the camera. That's really annoying to me. LOL
If you elect to do it, I'd set the width to what you prefer (I use 750) and leave the height blank, and it will hold your specified width, and proportion the height accordingly.

Thanks for considering.
Rick
 
OK, I'll look into it. Thanks..

For those reading that don't know this, this really isn't a problem with images that are attached as files, as there are already limits in place for the sizes of images. But when a file is referenced via an external file on another server, then the images can really be ANY size, including those that just screw up the displayed page something awful.

And, of course, a LOT depends on the size of the screen you are looking at as to what will be considered as acceptable and what isn't to you personally. I'm using a 28 inch screen, so what I see will be a LOT different from what someone might see on a mobile device. Quite honestly, I will not "lowest common denominator" such a setting to favor the smaller screens anyway.
 
28" eh. Sounds like you're about 7" longer then me. :(

Thanks for checking it out. I just hate scrolling left and right to read the posts. I'm sure others will enjoy it too.

BTW, we're using the 1.2.8
 
If you didn't want to go that whole route, you could always use a percentage width constraint in the site's CSS... you could use very specific selectors and target only inline images included in post bodies, so that they're automatically resized to say 90% of available box space.... if you didn't want to go the mod route...
 
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