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Anyone else have to fight past pangs of guilt when posting an image over 400 pixels wide?
Every time I have to remind myself it's not 1999 and I am not destroying connections of other fans. It's an fandom old habit that I can't quite shake. Meanwhile everyone else posts huge images with no collateral damage. I have to fight myself every time to post as big as 800 pixels.
Anyone else have any fandom old habits that are out of date? Or is this a 'just me' thing?




Speaking as someone who lives out in the middle of nowhere with a crap internet connection (newsflash, not everyone lives in a city/suburb with high speed internet connectivity) I thank you profusely for limiting your image sizes!
I still smush words together or use underscores to avoid ever having any spaces in file names, since part of me remains convinced there are computer programs out there that won't be able to cope with that.
Oh gods yes! I can't even force myself to leave spaces in filenames! All_the_underscores.txt
The Patent Office online filing system can't. Of course, the US government isn't exactly what I would call cutting edge
I sort of assume that sites will resize appropriately for display so even if I upload a huge image, the person on the other end is getting a downscaled one.
Depends on the site. I was picking trip photos for a Dreamwidth entry when I wrote this :)
Heh, yeah, I do the same - and I usually make thumbs versions and so on. :)
And I still personally have some problems with large images when sent through email, so I think some problems still exist that many don't know about.
I have the same habit, I always hesitate to post bigger images and then I realize "it's okay to do this now". Same with gifs.
I still aggressively turn off smart quotes for fic because those used to frex up mailing list software
I still hand-code my fic formatting in html and type all accented characters as alt codes because I expect websites to mangle all that kind of stuff if you just copy-paste it.
Don't they? I'm going to have to do that with my current fic. In fact, all my italics for it has html? Can AO3 just read italics and accent marks?
I don't know! I know a lot of sites have a Rich Text option that supposedly keeps the formatting, but I fear and mistrust them.
Yeah, I hand-code all my HTML in my fic on AO3 as well.
Well, I don't know nuttin' about coding--hand or otherwise. But I keep running into odd problems when I copy/paste to Imzy posts. Screws up the formatting and then I have to try to figure out how to fix it.
I do that too! Even at work :)