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FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: January 26, 2018, 8:34 pm
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Unfortunately according to the forum logistics it says we have
almost completely taken up our allotted forum attachment space.
I don't think it would be right to delete posts. What should I
do?
#Post#: 264--------------------------------------------------
Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: GothicChessInventor Date: January 26, 2018, 10:04 pm
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Have everyone use an image hosting site and don't attach images
directly. Just show thumbnails.
Ask then to change their posts one at a time and delete the
attachments once the hosting site shows the images ok.
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Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: HGMuller Date: January 27, 2018, 9:12 am
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It would be useful to make an inventory of which fraction of the
allotted space is taken up by which type of images. And then try
to find alteratives for the most demanding categories.
My guess is that whole-board images of chess positions take up a
pretty large amount of space, and posting one for every position
in a game would be prohibitively expensive. In any case it is a
huge waste of storage space and bandwidth, as the information
contained in them could have been encoded in a very small text
description (like FEN), to be expanded to an image in the client
browser. This is how most Chess forums solve it. (E.g. on
TalkChes you just put the FEN preceded by a [d] tag in your
posting, to get a diagram. Or a PGN game between [pgn][/pgn]
tags to get an interactive board where you can step through the
game.
#Post#: 270--------------------------------------------------
Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: chilipepper Date: January 27, 2018, 6:29 pm
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Asher, are you sure that almost all the allotted space has been
used? That's surprising to me.
I know that this isn't YouTube or Flickr, but those sites (with
advertising supported by page views) allow anyone to post any
photo or video, seemingly without a limit.
I use Flickr, and often post high-resolution photos. One such
photo uses more memory than an entire chess game encoded in
images (1 image/move x 100 moves). When I check Flickr
(free-membership) it always says that I've used 0.0% of my 1TB
of free memory. And Flickr allows videos too (which I presume
use more memory than photos):
HTML https://www.flickr.com/photos/148997126@N03/24525422338/
I also often visit this site:
HTML https://www.cloudynights.com/forum/135-north-american-total-solar-eclipse-2017/
Which also allows uploading astronomy photos (by anyone for
free). Does anyone know how that site is supported?
Are there other options?
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Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: chilipepper Date: February 12, 2018, 1:54 pm
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I'm getting an error when trying to upload images - even a small
50x50 pixel image of one chess piece.
I had the problem when trying to submit a chess variant, and
also here when trying to upload a single image.
The message I get is: "An Error Has Occurred! - The upload
folder is full. Please try a smaller file and/or contact an
administrator."
Let me know if there is anything I can do. Thanks. ???
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Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: HGMuller Date: February 13, 2018, 11:10 am
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I have discovered that this website has a support forum, and
after I registered and posted a queston there they deliver
prompt service (
HTML https://support.createaforum.com/8/adding-javascript-powered-features-to-forum-posts/<br
/>).
What it boils down to is that the admin of this board should put
a line in the header or footer (in the way described there) to
invoke the JavaScript that would expand any diagrams included in
postings. I am sure I can easily supply a script that does the
job, but for testing purposes it would be best to make the link
point to a script on my website, so that I can debug it without
assistance from the admins here. Once it works fully
satisfactory, we can have the script itself, and the individual
piece images it draws on, hosted on this website, and chage the
link in the header/footer to point to that.
The link I would need initially in the header is
[font=courier]<script type="text/javascript"
src="
HTML http://hgm.nubati.net/variants/CVF.js"></script>[/font]
Let me know whe this has been placed, then I will create diagram
support.
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Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: GothicChessInventor Date: February 13, 2018, 8:25 pm
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[quote author=HGMuller link=topic=48.msg462#msg462
date=1518541834]
I have discovered that this website has a support forum, and
after I registered and posted a queston there they deliver
prompt service (
HTML https://support.createaforum.com/8/adding-javascript-powered-features-to-forum-posts/<br
/>).
What it boils down to is that the admin of this board should put
a line in the header or footer (in the way described there) to
invoke the JavaScript that would expand any diagrams included in
postings. I am sure I can easily supply a script that does the
job, but for testing purposes it would be best to make the link
point to a script on my website, so that I can debug it without
assistance from the admins here. Once it works fully
satisfactory, we can have the script itself, and the individual
piece images it draws on, hosted on this website, and chage the
link in the header/footer to point to that.
The link I would need initially in the header is
[font=courier]<script type="text/javascript"
src="
HTML http://hgm.nubati.net/variants/CVF.js"></script>[/font]
Let me know whe this has been placed, then I will create diagram
support.
[/quote]
Good job H.G.! That is exactly what we need here!
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Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: HGMuller Date: February 14, 2018, 3:11 am
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Well, the job still has to be done. The diagram script already
exists (I use it on chessvariants.com to post diagrams), but it
scans the page for 'anchors' in HTML of the form
<div class="idiagram"></div> enclosing with the diagram. It
doesn't seem we can post HTML directly here, though (unlike
chessvariants.com). So I will adapt the script to just do an
initial pass over the page for HTML elements with class="post"
(which is how the forum software wraps the text of individual
postings), exract the text, and scan each such text for
[diag][/diag] BBcode-style tags, replacing those by <div
class="idiagram"></div> HTML tags, before running the existing
script to expand the latter.
But I cannot do anything if the forum header here would not
invoke the script. I have no admin permissions on this board.
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Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: chilipepper Date: April 17, 2018, 5:06 pm
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Does anyone know the status of our ability to post diagrams to
this forum?
I know we can use external image hosting websites (post images
externally, and link to images here). I find that to be somewhat
cumbersome and inconvenient. Has it been settled that this is
the permanent method for posting diagrams and illustrations
here? ???
#Post#: 813--------------------------------------------------
Re: FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT: ATTACHMENT FILE HUGE PROBLEM!!!
By: HGMuller Date: April 18, 2018, 2:58 am
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The status is "no progress, and not being worked on". Creating
this possibility requires an action of the board admin.
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