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[quote="_z_"][quote="scestes"]I think what everyone needs to keep in mind is that when you add something like a gallery to a forums package you get 2 things. A lot of disk utilization, and a lot of bandwidth utilization. There are a lot of free places for everyone to post pics of their cars that are free. If you're so inclined, put the link to your car pics in your signature. I have. I wish more people would. If Steve were to setup a gallery as part of the forums, he would probably have to purchase more disk space, and would most definitely pay more in montly fees in the form of bandwidth. Text is cheap to push out to the masses, pictures are not. With the plethora of free image hosting sites out there, I honestly don't see a need.[/quote]

Yeah I've kind of been messing around with a gallery type addition.  For one thing we've already got a shedload of images folk have already uploaded.  I wrote a little thing that lets you see the images organized by username, but the issue is that the existing thumbs are waaay to big -- so I need to write an image processor to convert all the existing images to a much smaller set of thumbs associated with them.

This isn't very hard at all, but it does take up more space.  I think steve k. gave the OK for doing that, but i've been hesitant just because of disk space issues like you pointed out.  The ol server doesn't have THAT much extra space.

But the plan is to have all the currently hosted images placed into a gallery of some kind, and then allow registered users add images directly kinda thing.

Just been super busy at work and haven't had enough time to work on it.  Also the disk issue .. dono if I want to bomb the server with that much extra stress.

We'll see!

-zachary[/quote]

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