Could we allow larger photo upload size?

[Sentryduty]

We would ask members to pre-process their JPG or PNG pics locally on their computer before uploading, keeping file sizes to under 3 Mb and with [Width by Height] dimensions of 2592 by 1944, or less.

the resize attempt might fail if the image is too large to be successfully processed,

Thank you Doug, this statement pretty much all I was after, and was hoping for a max file allowance increase, however I understand that will not be permitted.

I bet that pic above took a fair bit of time after you clicked to view it, before it appeared on your computer screen.

It was actually instant on the first try, as quick as any of the other photos, but I do understand the point your are trying to make.

I will continue with my workaround methods.

Thank you for the response.

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[Badger]

Thank you Doug, this statement pretty much all I was after, and was hoping for a max file allowance increase, however I understand that will not be permitted.

You're welcome partner ..

With large 5-10 Mb file sizes, I don't think our 2006 era Intel 2.0 GHz 1333FSB - Clovertown (Xeon 5335) (2 Gb memory) server would handle real time uploading and trans-coding styled file resizing very well, plus simultaneously all of the other processing for our entire site with members logged in at the time it was tasked to do that. Maybe some day we should take up a special collection and see if we can get an upgrade for our 10 year old hardware platform.

It was actually instant on the first try, as quick as any of the other photos, but I do understand the point your are trying to make.

That's excellent... on my 5 Mbps DSL connection, it took about 4-5 seconds for the pic to be received and the thumbnail to appear ready to be clicked on. Perhaps the server processor was performing some other heavy taskings when I sent the click request to open the larger 6 Mb pic.

Thanks for your understanding ..

Regards,
Doug