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Poster:
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xtifr
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Date:
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April 20, 2009 01:15:28pm
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Forum:
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etree
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Re: attach images to your tapings!
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Keep in mind: if you just dump in a bunch of random large images, the archive will choose the first one (alphabetically), and send the entire image to everyone who browses the details page for that show, along with instructions to your browser to scale it down to a thumbnail (which makes the download of the entire image extremely pointless).
The alphabetical part can be a problem because "back" sorts before "front", so if you include a front cover and back cover, the back cover is, more often than not, what gets displayed. Usually not what you want. Example here: http://www.archive.org/details/rad1990-02-24.shnf
The send-the-whole-file part is a major problem for people who may be browsing the archive with mobile devices and pay by the kilobyte. Just looking at the details page of http://www.archive.org/details/tbt2009-01-28.at4041.flac16 (for example) will result in the download of a nearly six megabytes, all just to provide a little 160 pixel-wide thumbnail! This is extremely wasteful and expensive to the poor folks who just want to review the available shows for later downloading!
I agree that pictures are nice, but it would be even nicer if the Archive maintainers could improve their software to be a little more friendly before calling for a general upload of images. Making a local, pre-scaled thumbnail when generating derivatives would be a bare minimum, IMO!
And for those who would like to upload images, but don't want to punish people who innocently browse the archive with their phones or whatnot, consider doing something like I did with this show: http://www.archive.org/details/rad1984-03-03.shnf -- I made a pre-scaled thumbnail image (only 19k) and named it "archive_image.jpg" so it would sort alphabetically before the cover images. |
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