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Originally Posted by danurve
If I may add my two cents;
When I used to browse the simtropolis (sim city 4) forum they have a Journal section. Somewhat similar to how the mission designers forum is seprate from the rest of the forum here. It helped keep the entire forum organized.
Consider what threads would be kept out of the regular SHIII section considering the high volume of traffic it currently receives.
As others have mentioned we're talking about lots of images, which means bandwidth. While that in itself has nothing to do with this idea, the players posting mega (unreduced) images - bmp's or png's instead of jpg's take some of the enjoyment out of it for the people on dial-up or any reduced connection speed.
Then you have people wondering what software to use. Myself I like psp 7, it's an older version but a snap to use and I'm no artist. I'd bet alot of people who have Office don't know or use MS Office picture manager, quite easy to use as well. Whatever..
I thought of setting up yet another server and do up an ongoing deal for a journal of sorts, maybe some thumbnails or some jazz. I have these credits from my hosting service I don't use. I mean what are we talking about, taking screens can be fun to share. But would I do that here in the main SHIII forum? Nope. It would just get burried.
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One of the reasons I like using photobucket is that it'll auto-convert .bmp to .jpg. As well, it has the ability to choose what size upload you want. For patrol posts, for instance, you could select the smaller sizes (like web/email) which would both conserve bandwidth as well as make it easier for the dial-up members.