numbnutz1 wrote:
GingerZeeFan wrote:
thats because you cant post full size pics you have to upload them to a host site like imageshack,photobucket etc and then post thumbnails to them
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Thumbnails with links are required for pics posted at WWoW due to bandwith issues.
Why? So we can get 10 pop up windows everytime we open a picture?
Whats wrong with full size pics?
If you get a pop-up window everytime you open the pic, then you don't have your browser settings set right. Also, there are free pop-up blockers that you can employ.
Full size pics take up our bandwith. Bandwith is the amount of bytes it takes to transfer a message from our server host to your computer. The less bytes transfered, the more messages we can have here at WWoW. We only have a finite amount of bandwith each month to run this place. If we run out of bandwith, the forum is down until the end of the month when we get a new monthly allocation of bandwith.
By using thumbnails, it places a small amount of resources on our host's server and puts the bandwith back on the site that hosts the pic. Until you run a forum or a website on your own, it can be hard to fathom.