Published on 12, July, 2020
Dear Community,
We were pleased to see so many comments about the community on the recent thread about the Leader Board. We are always wanting to learn more about how we can develop the community and so have locked the previous thread so that all comments and suggestions about general improvements to the community can now be placed here on this thread.
Please comment here on any ideas, improvements or feedback you have about the Online Community.
Please note that although we take on board all your ideas, we may not be able to implement all of them.
As always, please be kind and respectful when commenting to each other.
Thanks,
NAS Moderators
It would be lovely to upload pictures, decent ones of course, I have some lovely pictures of the natural world and knitting projects I would love to share, that will offend no one and make people feel happier.
There's a picture-sharing thread that you might like. I'd recommend, as Cassandro suggested, reducing image size first, although pictures should get down-sized when you upload them anyway. Most cameras these days (even phones) take pictures that are much higher resolution (and therefore much bigger in file size) than is needed for a forum such as this. If you imagine the effect on everyone else's bandwidth usage of filling a thread such as the photo sharing one with massive images, you can see that the thread could quickly become impossibly large and slow to view for our site users. Uploading a large image will also take you longer than a smaller one would, obviously.
Google has advice on shrinking images.
I think you can upload pictures. Click 'Insert' (below or above the box you are typing in), then the second option is 'Insert image/video/file'. I think only certain formats are acceptable, but JPG (most photos) should work. (You might want to scale them down a bit if you know how.)