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@JonesCarpeDiem wrote:
It was probably the picture size, It didn't say anything about picture size when I tried to post it 10 times.
I did take a screenshot before I gave up.
Thanks for the screenshot. This error is likely because you got automatically logged out because you were on the same page for a long time. It's possible there is a saved draft of your message on your profile for this Forum Discussion Topic. If you pushed the back button on your browser when you saw this message (it might have showed you your post and reauthenticated you) and then if you clicked the "Post" button again it probably would have posted unless there was an issue with picture size, which likely would have presented an error pertaining to that.
@JonesCarpeDiem wrote:
I guess I didn't realize this sites data limits were so restrictive or set to be that way. I seem to remember, "post anything you want. We have all the space in the world." That must have pertained to the last platform.
Yes, you're referencing a post I made prior to the last move when asked if people needed to "clean up" their old posts prior to the move. I told them they didn't need to remove old posts because we were moving all the data from the previous site to the new site. And we did that again with this new community as well. With Jive there were limitations on posting images as well with new posts. Perhaps the limit was 10MB per post. The video limit might have been 50MB for uploaded videos.
With the change in platform, things are a bit different and adjustments need to be made when new limitations exist. Khoros doesn't have their own video hosting service, I suspect because it's expensive and other companies do it better. You can upload videos as attachments but there isn't a native video player so you need to download them to play them. Which requires a video player and matching codecs. This way is problematic as it then takes up your hard drive and the file could have malware/spyware. So embedded video from a known video provider is safest and easiest way to go for all parties.
Remember we're a non profit. There are real costs associated with providing the community and the other resources available in this intervention. So if someone puts a whole bunch of 3GB videos of their cat/dog or puts 7TB of images on the site then there is a cost to store them. It adds up quickly, whereas text-based posts with some glitter graphics (Less than 50KB per image) associated to them are fairly trivial and it would be a long time before it reached 3GB or 7TB.
It was probably the picture size, It didn't say anything about picture size when I tried to post it 10 times. I guess I didn't realize this sites data limits were so restrictive or set to be that way. I seem to remember, "post anything you want. We have all the space in the world." That must have pertained to the last platform.
I did take a screenshot before I gave up.
@JonesCarpeDiem wrote:
It was probably the picture size, It didn't say anything about picture size when I tried to post it 10 times.
I did take a screenshot before I gave up.
Thanks for the screenshot. This error is likely because you got automatically logged out because you were on the same page for a long time. It's possible there is a saved draft of your message on your profile for this Forum Discussion Topic. If you pushed the back button on your browser when you saw this message (it might have showed you your post and reauthenticated you) and then if you clicked the "Post" button again it probably would have posted unless there was an issue with picture size, which likely would have presented an error pertaining to that.
@JonesCarpeDiem wrote:
I guess I didn't realize this sites data limits were so restrictive or set to be that way. I seem to remember, "post anything you want. We have all the space in the world." That must have pertained to the last platform.
Yes, you're referencing a post I made prior to the last move when asked if people needed to "clean up" their old posts prior to the move. I told them they didn't need to remove old posts because we were moving all the data from the previous site to the new site. And we did that again with this new community as well. With Jive there were limitations on posting images as well with new posts. Perhaps the limit was 10MB per post. The video limit might have been 50MB for uploaded videos.
With the change in platform, things are a bit different and adjustments need to be made when new limitations exist. Khoros doesn't have their own video hosting service, I suspect because it's expensive and other companies do it better. You can upload videos as attachments but there isn't a native video player so you need to download them to play them. Which requires a video player and matching codecs. This way is problematic as it then takes up your hard drive and the file could have malware/spyware. So embedded video from a known video provider is safest and easiest way to go for all parties.
Remember we're a non profit. There are real costs associated with providing the community and the other resources available in this intervention. So if someone puts a whole bunch of 3GB videos of their cat/dog or puts 7TB of images on the site then there is a cost to store them. It adds up quickly, whereas text-based posts with some glitter graphics (Less than 50KB per image) associated to them are fairly trivial and it would be a long time before it reached 3GB or 7TB.
