Posting giant photos

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People are posting huge photos by linking to outside storage sites. This works fine when viewing Orchid Board on a desktop, but not on an Android phone.

Orchid Board runs on very old software. The phone tries to display the photo at full scale, and only a tiny portion of the photo can be seen at one time. It's pointless to try and pan to see a photo when it occupies 5-6 or more screen widths.

The huge photos take a very long time to download to a phone, especially on WiFi, and it is even longer when the post contains a large number of photos. When using phone data rather than WiFi, these large photos use a lot of bandwidth. Plus, the phone tries to scale the best it can, and the text is so tiny it can't be read without greatly enlarging the message.

The normal Orchid Board method of attaching photos puts thumbnails in the message. People can choose whether or not to click on the thumbnail. When doing so, the images are mostly displayed scaled to the screen size.

I would like to request people consider posting photos using the normal Orchid Board method, and also put links in their messages to the full-size photos. People at a desktop could see the huge photos, and phone users wouldn't have to deal with the problems.

I must confess when viewing Orchid Board on my phone, as soon as I realize a thread contains any giant photos, I immediately back out of the thread and don't read it.