Gallery - Space Increase?

[Nightwalker]

Is it not possible to up the gallery size for full or normal members? With the prices of hard-drive space so cheap these days (500GB = £65) could the restriction not be up'd from 2mb to say 10mb per user? or perhaps even more?

If 7,000 users had 10mb of gallery space each, you would need to allocate less than 70GB hard-drive space on the server. Now im guessing that its a very small percentage of the registered-users that utilize the gallery in the first place so 70GB space probably wouldn't even get used up. With the current 7,200 userbase, each user 2mb, thats 14GB total HDD space allocated on the server im guessing.

Looking at the statistics:
Photos: 1,606
Views: 1,452,407
Disk Space: 131.6mb

Im surprised to see so little space being used; 130mb total? With 1,452,407 views I would say the gallery is a popular feature but I think it could be soo much more popular if users were allowed more space and were able to publish more content/images. Content is king and more photos in the gallery will drive more traffic etc.

Any chance of a space increase for the gallery?
Thanks for your time.

 

[JonnyP]

I had forgotten about the gallery....I used up my space in no time. Would love to stick some more photo's up on there....

 

[Ahjno]

You can do as Rapidboy does: using Photobucket and creating a hypelink to it in you BCUK signature (the line of text under your posts).

 

[Nightwalker]

You can do as Rapidboy does: using Photobucket and creating a hypelink to it in you BCUK signature (the line of text under your posts).

I know.. I know, I know a dozen other services that offer the like, but if its feasbile for BCUK to do it right here they may aswell (seeing as they already do the Gallery feature). It'd make life easier for those who wanted to post images to compliment their post's having it all on one site/community.

 

[Tony]

Thanks for bringing that up Nightwalker, you pitched it just right

I've changed the members to 10mb and the Full/Maker members to 50mb. I plan on reviewing this again in the near future as I'm trying to sort out the video upload side of things. I've also upped the max size of photo that can be uploaded to 1.5 and 3mb, people need to be aware though that this can have a serious effect on the page opening times.
So, there you go

 

[Tony]

I had forgotten about the gallery....I used up my space in no time. Would love to stick some more photo's up on there....

Come on then Jon, get some more up

 

[JonnyP]

Come on then Jon, get some more up

Will do as soon as I can figure out how to resize the photo's....I am now using windows vista and there is no resizing tool I can download...I cannot put the photo's up full sized, so I am trying to find a way of resizing....Anyone got any suggestions...?

 

[British Red]

Paint Shop Pro does a shareware version Jon - great little tool with good re-sizing, cropping and image improving tools

Red

 

[JonnyP]

Paint Shop Pro does a shareware version Jon - great little tool with good re-sizing, cropping and image improving tools

Red

Do you know where I can get that from Red..

 

[Nightwalker]

Firstly, Thank you very much Tony, I will be sure to upload more photos!

Secondly as for image resizing; I did a quick search for 'freeware image resizing tool' came up with this that seems to be free:
http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

no doubt there will be plenty of free/opensource tool's out there to do just the job, but careful you dont get shareware or spyware/malware. use known sources, come to think of it, 1sec, The link below should give you a list of legitimate free tools just for resizing images:
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0...resize&os=&li=49&dlsize=&swlink=false&x=0&y=0

hope that helps.

 

[JonnyP]

Firstly, Thank you very much Tony, I will be sure to upload more photos!

Secondly as for image resizing; I did a quick search for 'freeware image resizing tool' came up with this that seems to be free:
http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

no doubt there will be plenty of free/opensource tool's out there to do just the job, but careful you dont get shareware or spyware/malware. use known sources, come to think of it, 1sec, The link below should give you a list of legitimate free tools just for resizing images:
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0...resize&os=&li=49&dlsize=&swlink=false&x=0&y=0

hope that helps.

Sure does, cheers Nightwalker, got the one in the first link, the ones in the second link wanted money after a certain time....Hopefully I can put some photo's up again now....I really do not like this vista....

 

[Nightwalker]

I really do not like this vista....

Im an IT/Network Technician by trade and I can tell you the new Vista OS is a big flop. Personally I hate it with a passion. On a lighter note, Thank you once again Tony for this gallery increase! I've just been doing some tests; with the 10mb a basic user gets if they use XP's free Powertoy Image Resizer to resize around 120 Photos!.. it will be around the 10mb mark. Thats a rough guide, I resized 120 of my camping photos as a test and its around 10mb, thats at 800 by 600 resolution and great quality, so users could even fit 150-200 photos in their gallery if they used slightly lower resolutions. Right.. I'll shut the geek up now! :sulkoff:

 

[Ed]

Great link Nightwalker .... cheers ..... now if only I could remember which memory card my moot pics are on!!??!!??

Ed