3kB upload limit

[Alan de Enfield]

1 minute ago, David Mack said:

I think the limit is 4mb per post, so just put further pictures in another post.

 

 

4mb  - I dream of 4mb.

 

Some of us are limited to 3kb and it is not easy to get pictures small enough without serious 'work'

 

In fact Its very annoying - I think I'll report it to the tech team !

 

 

[cuthound]

3 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

 

4mb  - I dream of 4mb.

 

Some of us are limited to 3kb and it is not easy to get pictures small enough without serious 'work'

 

In fact Its very annoying - I think I'll report it to the tech team !

 

 

 

I find that taking a screenshot of the photo I want to post and using that reduces the file size considerably.

[MtB]

2 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

I find that taking a screenshot of the photo I want to post and using that reduces the file size considerably.

 

Especially a screen shot from a phone rather than a lappy, I'd say....

 

 

[cuthound]

5 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Especially a screen shot from a phone rather than a lappy, I'd say....

 

 

 

It works with both and in my case (Google phone and Asus Chromebook) the screenshots are about the same size, between 0.5MB and 1.5MB.

[Tony Brooks]

Not much help if you don't have a suitable app/program, but I just copy an image into a graphic manipulation program, select Resize and set that to (say) 20%, save image so ready to be put into Forum. In fact, I think you can copy and paste from the program, direct onto the forum. I am sure both Android and Apple phones have suitable apps. I doubt it takes more than a minute.

[Alan de Enfield]

56 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

Not much help if you don't have a suitable app/program, but I just copy an image into a graphic manipulation program, select Resize and set that to (say) 20%, save image so ready to be put into Forum. In fact, I think you can copy and paste from the program, direct onto the forum. I am sure both Android and Apple phones have suitable apps. I doubt it takes more than a minute.

 

 

It is more the frustration of having something removed which I previously had which allowed me to download directly from 'my pictures'.

 

I'm reading a post and wish to reply with addition of a picture.

 

I now need to open up a web based picture manipulator.

Click on 'get picture'

Go and search on 'my pictures' until I find the one I want.

Click on upload

Click on 'what size do you want'

When it's uploaded

Click to open it

Then click on option to copy it to 'a foum' and then select thumbnail or full size

Then go back to the forum and post the picture, in the mean time several replies have been made.

 

 

I have not been able to make a screen shot that will post directly - 3kb is less than tiny.

Edited September 20, 2025 by Alan de Enfield

[1st ade]

4 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I think I'll report it to the tech team !

Noted - and as a Mod (not Tech) we've passed it on...

[MtB]

2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I have not been able to make a screen shot that will post directly - 3kb is less than tiny.

 

Indeed it is. Its miniscule for a photo.

 

So it's a good thing the limit for a photo here is approximately 1,300 times bigger! At 4mb.

 

 

[Alan de Enfield]

2 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Indeed it is. Its miniscule for a photo.

 

So it's a good thing the limit for a photo here is approximately 1,300 times bigger! At 4mb.

 

 

 

It used to be that for me, but I got downgraded to 3kb

 

[MtB]

4 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

It used to be that for me, but I got downgraded to 3kb

 

 

 

Weird! 

 

I'd imagine you can still embed a link to an image URL and have it display as an image.

 

 

[alias]

5 hours ago, MtB said:

 

Indeed it is. Its miniscule for a photo.

 

So it's a good thing the limit for a photo here is approximately 1,300 times bigger! At 4mb.

 

 

I thought you were a stickler for units 🙂

 

m = milli (one thousandth)

M = Mega (million)

b = bits (8 of these to the byte)

B = Bytes

 

It's all fun and games until (as a salesman at a company that I worked for found) you inadvertently use the wrong case in a contract and commit your firm as a supplier to provide much more bandwidth than you intended to a customer (as part of a wider deal for other services) for a bargain price.

 

Oh how we laughed. I sometimes wonder what he's doing for a living now. 

 

Edited September 20, 2025 by alias

[MtB]

2 hours ago, alias said:

 

I thought you were a stickler for units 🙂

 

m = milli (one thousandth)

M = Mega (million)

b = bits (8 of these to the byte)

B = Bytes

 

It's all fun and games until (as a salesman at a company that I worked for found) you inadvertently use the wrong case in a contract and commit your firm as a supplier to provide much more bandwidth than you intended to a customer (as part of a wider deal for other services) for a bargain price.

 

Oh how we laughed. I sometimes wonder what he's doing for a living now. 

 

 

Have to say guilty as charged, but I wondered about that as I typed my answer. Then I decided (in error as it turns out) to use the same format Alan used in the post I quoted.

 

So in actual fact the allowed image size for the rest of us is 1,300,000 times the 3kb Alan is allowed. One wonders why he has been singled out for such a restrictive limit. I can't begin to imagine....

 

 

[NB Saturn]

20 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

It used to be that for me, but I got downgraded to 3kb

 

 

This couldn’t be that you’ve virtually filled up the total you’re allowed  to store files could it, rather than it being the actual individual file in question ie the error message is a bit bogus?

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, NB Saturn said:

 

This couldn’t be that you’ve virtually filled up the total you’re allowed  to store files could it, rather than it being the actual individual file in question ie the error message is a bit bogus?

 

Dunno - but how do those folks that post 100s of files in the 'pictures of your boat'threads go about it ?

 

Anyway, I have reported it to the 'techies'and expect an answer in due course.

[IanD]

On 20/09/2025 at 18:47, MtB said:

 

Have to say guilty as charged, but I wondered about that as I typed my answer. Then I decided (in error as it turns out) to use the same format Alan used in the post I quoted.

 

So in actual fact the allowed image size for the rest of us is 1,300,000 times the 3kb Alan is allowed. One wonders why he has been singled out for such a restrictive limit. I can't begin to imagine....

 

3kb or 3kB? 😉

[MtB]

7 hours ago, IanD said:

3kb or 3kB? 😉

 

Quite. Alan claims 3kb (kilobits) in his post, but the image says 3kB (kilobytes). 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 22, 2025 by MtB
Delete duplicate post, along with some muppetry

[DHutch]

On 20/09/2025 at 09:42, David Mack said:

I think the limit is ....  per post, so just put further pictures in another post.

Yes, which can include posting straight away afterwards and having them merge into one I believe !

On 20/09/2025 at 09:50, Alan de Enfield said:

4mb  - I dream of 4mb.

Some of us are limited to 3kb and it is not easy to get pictures small enough without serious 'work'

In fact Its very annoying - I think I'll report it to the tech team !

Odd. One for Rich to look into perhaps. @rmo

On 21/09/2025 at 13:26, NB Saturn said:

 

This couldn be that you’ve virtually filled up the total you’re allowed  to store files could it, rather than it being the actual individual file in question ie the error message is a bit bogus?

Maybe.

The currenly limits for 'Member' and 'New members' is as follows:

I have had a bit of look around the forum settings, checking the settings of some of the other user groups, and Alan isnt in any of them, and cannot see anything obvious. However I then looked at his attachment quota, and yes, you are at 99% with only 1024MB left!

 

So that is the root of the issue, full marks to NB Saturn!

[rmo]

The total storage allocation has been increased to 2GB per user just now - this is double the previous limit though we can increase this again if required. 
 

On a separate but related note; I'll revisit individual attachment limits once we transition to Invision v5 - anticipated within the next six months. The current version handles compression poorly, which can be problematic for users relying on mobile data in areas with limited signal strength.