Should forum attachments be disabled

[Kyte]

[18:32] <Kyte> also attachments have been a continuous problem for the last few months
[18:32] <Kyte> the influx of newbies that GO brought proved pretty thoroughly that attachments are cancer
[18:33] <Dark_Pulse> Sorry, I don't care what you think
[18:33] <Kyte> and create more problems than they solve
[18:33] <Dark_Pulse> They don't have to be used, so don't use them if you don't want to
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[18:36] <Dark_Pulse> "They're horrible," but... nobody is forced to use them
[18:36] <Dark_Pulse> Nobody is stopping him from either using them or deciding to put stuff on Mega or Imgur
[18:36] <@Lian|phone> I think his argument is thst people should be forced to not use them
[18:36] <kirby> people are defaulting to using them, though, because they don't know there are other options

As always, Darples proving my opinion of him. Anyways, bringing this back up.

[18:38] <Dark_Pulse> Right now the only gain from disabling attachements would be that it makes the forum database smaller
[18:38] <kirby> and that people won't default to using attachments
[18:38] <CruorCruor> i'd rather you just raise the limits
[18:38] <Dark_Pulse> It'd also functionally kill a certain aspect of the site but to be honest I doubt that part is being used anyway

There's more but it's also mixed in with me screaming the shit out at him and I can't edit properly on touchpad.

[Mcjon01]

Why does Darples get any say in this, he's barely even a member here anymore.

[Rafflesiac]

Why does Darples get any say in this, he's barely even a member here anymore.

Because Tobias and Elf can't program and Altima is the Forum Killer.

[Seika]

Elf has >1 post per day for October in the public forums, and can increase that ratio fairly significantly off mod forum posts too. I wouldn't call her inactive.

[Spinach]

One day DP will listen to the voice of the people.

[Cruor]

btw after this convo yesterday we convinced DP to raise the image size limit to 1900x1080 or something. He said the file size limit should also be bigger now!

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oh but he wanted us to check to see if seeing any attachments that size broke the forum but we didn't know where any would be (I knew I could go to some fanclub and look at the images there but I refuse to join fanclubs).

[aldeayeah]

Would disabling attachments mean nuking the existing ones?

[Leftovers]

ok

[Cruor]

Would disabling attachments mean nuking the existing ones?

iirc yes

[mAc Chaos]

Skull posts some attachments in the Jojo thread, you could start there.

[Leftovers]

thanks dp

[Cruor]

DP ;_;

[Kotonoha]

Elf has >1 post per day for October in the public forums, and can increase that ratio fairly significantly off mod forum posts too. I wouldn't call her inactive.

Why does only 1% of the forum population get the Elf posts, fucked up

[Skull]

Skull posts some attachments in the Jojo thread, you could start there.

Grr...

Actually, would this be a good time to admit I don't know what "Attachments" are?
I can't vote otherwise.

[mAc Chaos]

It's when you use the forum to upload images to your posts instead of externally via imgur or some other image hosting site.

[Seika]

Why does only 1% of the forum population get the Elf posts, fucked up

By my count, it's about a third of her posts in the mod forum, to two thirds outside? (Albeit we've been more active than usual this last month).

Anyway, just for you, I will try to persuade her to increase her public post ratio.

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[Seika]

Are attached .gifs not meant to .gif unless you click through? That seems bad.

[Kyte]

vBulletin's resize is very very old and therefore very very dumb. It kills transparency and only keeps the first frame in a gif.