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| SavannahLion:
Donkey_Kong's method is what most of us should be using. While it's cool and probably easier to link to an outside service like photobucket, that really sucks ass in the long run. If you delete the images, if the service dies, or you just move on, those photos disappear and six months, twelve months, even three years later someone is going to do a search, find your post, and go, "What the ---fudgesicle---? Stupid ---uvula--- linked to pictures that don't even exist! What good is this thread?" I can't tell you how often I was trying to find information on something and there's a cross link or image leading to a dead site that relates to some crucial understanding within that thread. It's like seeing a damn teaser to the movie of the millennium, but every single copy of the movie was destroyed in some apocalyptic event just before wide release. I'm not sure if Saint put it so succinctly, but I believe he cares less about bandwidth than he does about preservation of the information here. |
| Paul Olson:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 01, 2011, 02:16:41 am ---Donkey_Kong's method is what most of us should be using. While it's cool and probably easier to link to an outside service like photobucket, that really sucks ass in the long run. If you delete the images, if the service dies, or you just move on, those photos disappear and six months, twelve months, even three years later someone is going to do a search, find your post, and go, "What the ---fudgesicle---? Stupid ---uvula--- linked to pictures that don't even exist! What good is this thread?" I can't tell you how often I was trying to find information on something and there's a cross link or image leading to a dead site that relates to some crucial understanding within that thread. It's like seeing a damn teaser to the movie of the millennium, but every single copy of the movie was destroyed in some apocalyptic event just before wide release. I'm not sure if Saint put it so succinctly, but I believe he cares less about bandwidth than he does about preservation of the information here. --- End quote --- This is good to hear. I remember bandwidth being a big issue early on, and I guess I never really looked back into it. I will add the images to the site in the future. I may also try to edit to add them in. I have images saved on photobucket in awkward places just to keep from breaking links. Thanks for the info! |
| Woodshop Flunky:
Thanks everyone! Those screenshots really helped Donkey_Kong :) |
| saint:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 01, 2011, 02:16:41 am ---I'm not sure if Saint put it so succinctly, but I believe he cares less about bandwidth than he does about preservation of the information here. --- End quote --- +1! We have plenty of bandwidth :) |
| saint:
By the way, there is a thread in the Project Announcements forum whose sole purpose is to let you upload images into it, then reference them elsewhere on the forum ala DK's tutorial. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=103207.0 |
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