Huge Screenshots and Images Are Annoying

[danlisa]

Is Steve on a 10mb connection?
Perhaps he's on the Library connection with a limit per PC.
Perhaps he's on a dial up dongle.

Who knows.

People should be more considerate posting pictures. Just because they're on FIOS doesn't mean the next person is not on 54kbs.

[Fincuan]

Exactly my point.

Talking about loading times is useless because connection speeds vary so much. I don't know the next guy's connection speeds so I use my own as reference and whoopa, insanely large pics are completely "legitimate". A fixed size in KB would be by far the best choice, say 200 KB. Using .jpegs the quality still remains ok and the loading time is bearable even with slower connections.

Fyi that 10Mbit/s is the slowest and cheapest option my ISP offers and completely normal up here.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Fincuan

Fyi that 10Mbit/s is the slowest and cheapest option my ISP offers and completely normal up here.

No, it's normal down there, we still have 2Mbit/s connections available here, think someone's offering 1Mbit/s too.

As for the topic at hand, I echo what has been already said, JPG's with maximum resolution of 1024x768, over that and make a thumbnail. I personally tend to resize my screenshots from 1280x1024 to 960x768, no need to go any higher than that except if there's something very very very tiny in it that you want people to see.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And even if the difference was very obvious, it's still somebody else's time and space. It's selfish and rude to put up a picture that takes more than a minute to load.

Originally Posted by danlisa

Is Steve on a 10mb connection?
Perhaps he's on the Library connection with a limit per PC.
Perhaps he's on a dial up dongle.

Who knows.

People should be more considerate posting pictures. Just because they're on FIOS doesn't mean the next person is not on 54kbs.

I agree, JPEG format should be the accepted format combined with an agreed maximum size.