Dunno @Bentrod . Can you point me at an example?
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Richardscott999
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I use an ipad primarily and noticed the same thing as bentrod for the last few years. Seems better now I get 2/3.
So @Richardscott999 & @Bentrod , are you guys are uploading your own pictures to the site or downloading pictures from the site to view?
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Richardscott999
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I guess it’s still happening.
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@Bentrod, can you pls share the link to the post containing those images?
Bentrod
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Fishing Report - Walleye - LPB Lighthouse - Friday, July 10th
Nice day forecast today with thunderstorms and rain forecast for tomorrow through Monday therefore we decided to give walleye fishing another go even though we had absolutely no strategy in mind. We decided to head to Piggott's Post near the Lighthouse and see what we could do. As it turned...
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OK, @Bentrod ,@Richardscott999 and @Tyler0420 , I think I'm going to have to go back to the Donations well and buy a solution to this problem.
Problem Statement
Some images randomly download incompletely leaving an incomplete image.
Hypothesis
What do anglers like to do (amongst other things)? They like to:
The screen shot of the fish finder screen in the Fishing Report above was a whopping 7.2 megabytes (MB) in size (for the older crowd, that is a little over 7 3.5 inch floppy disks). For demo purposes, I resized it, to a new size 25.9 kilobytes (KB), making it 99.7% smaller!! Also included was a "medium" resize that is 98.8% smaller. Looks pretty good to me.
So, back to incomplete downloads, I'm guessing your iPhone and iPad are smart enough to say that no one in their right mind would download a photo that large and are bailing, or losing interest in waiting, or you're running out of bandwidth when pulling these huge image files.
Proposed Solution
Buy an add-on to the forum software that automatically compresses photos to a reasonable size as they are uploaded to Channel 6-8. There may be apps/approaches you could use on your phones to do this at source to save you bandwidth when uploading pictures as part of the beloved "live" reports..
Use the forum software settings to control the maximum image dimensions to keep uploaded image sizes and dimensions reasonable.
Problem Statement
Some images randomly download incompletely leaving an incomplete image.
Hypothesis
What do anglers like to do (amongst other things)? They like to:
- fish!
- take pictures of their fish
- clean their fish (well, maybe not so much)
- eat their fish
- drink beer
- share their fish pictures and stories on the Interweb
- resize their fishing pictures snapped from their modern phones to a proper size for sharing on the Interweb.
The screen shot of the fish finder screen in the Fishing Report above was a whopping 7.2 megabytes (MB) in size (for the older crowd, that is a little over 7 3.5 inch floppy disks). For demo purposes, I resized it, to a new size 25.9 kilobytes (KB), making it 99.7% smaller!! Also included was a "medium" resize that is 98.8% smaller. Looks pretty good to me.
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So, back to incomplete downloads, I'm guessing your iPhone and iPad are smart enough to say that no one in their right mind would download a photo that large and are bailing, or losing interest in waiting, or you're running out of bandwidth when pulling these huge image files.
Proposed Solution
Use the forum software settings to control the maximum image dimensions to keep uploaded image sizes and dimensions reasonable.
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hvyhaul
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For my phone I use this.
PHOTO Editor
Downloaded from play store for zero $$.
Does everything I need simply and quickly.
My LG ThinQ takes huge pictures, mid teens, so no way can they be uploaded properly.
My opinion, user obligation, not the forum's.
PHOTO Editor
Downloaded from play store for zero $$.
Does everything I need simply and quickly.
My LG ThinQ takes huge pictures, mid teens, so no way can they be uploaded properly.
My opinion, user obligation, not the forum's.
But some of us like to embellish our photo size, weather it's a 
pic or a 
pic......
pic or a pic......
Appreciate the sentiment @hvyhaul , but the old Webmaster was (again?) asleep at the switch on this one. A while back, as smartphone usage was exploding, I pretty much removed all restrictions on file upload size. People were *disappointed* that the couldn't simply upload their pix from their phones. What I also removed, for some God-only-knows-why reason, was a setting for the maximum photo dimensions allowed by the site, so 6-8 was storing some whoppers. I've now re-set those max photo dimensions which trigger the current forum software to resize the photos to something more reasonable for Interweb viewing.
@hvyhaul, when you're on Wifi, please try blasting up one of those huge LG photos as a test. Now, if you're using cellular , all that data has to go over the air to the 6-8 server, but the image will be smaller subsequently.
Bentrod
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Some restrictions might not be working yet.
Cant find propper tachometer
My tach crapped out on me and i can not seem to find one to fit my 4¼ inch opening. 4 inch tachs are only 3¼ inch. 5 inch tachs seem pretty close to mine but cant locate any. My tach is a faria brand. Not sure is ther an addapter if i have to go smaller? Would like to stay with original size...
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