IANAWP (I am not a website programmer
) I just wonder if there are ways to automatically reduce the bandwidth and storage by auto-downsizing pictures to ~50kB or some other size. Upload whatever size the poster wants to (it is only once) but everyone sees it as 50kB max. 2nd, I see this on other sites I frequent, registered members get to see the photos but non-registered users do not. And 3rd, modern websites automatically record the user's last read post in a thread. When you open an already read thread, it starts on the first un-read thread. By doing this, the photos they have already seen are not loaded again, saving bandwidth. One can always go back to the earlier posts when necessary.
I almost always start websites by seeing "unread posts" or "new posts". Currently on this site, I get the list and when I open that. I get the full page which includes many photos I have already seen, wasting bandwidth.
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