Origami

Thank you, Eric (and Lucky Corals), for your support!

Editing enabled for supporting WAMAS members.

There was a third party plugin in the legacy software versions that allowed us to set edit settings on a forum-by-forum basis, and for the first post in a thread. But the developer stopped supporting the tool and it's not compatible with version 5. There is a global edit setting currently set to 60 minutes for members. That's why you saw the behavior that you did. Let me look into this further. I liked the old behavior better, too.

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Interesting. I've noticed (while doing some testing) that images are sometimes not deleted immediately (when they disappear from the editor), but only sometime after the post is saved. I'd call it a bug myself. Good to know, though.

Thanks for the feedback. Just to clarify, the max size per post for all attachments is 5 MB. Was the 3.5 MB image the only image in the post? I'm monitoring how the automated image resizing is performing and, if warranted, may relax the limits further.

File space was becoming a big issue and a long-term concern. Users used to submit images that were most often less than a 0.25 MB on average, with some moving toward 1 MB each. But, in the last couple of years, some users started pushing images up to 5 MB each, sometimes more. WEBP images are the biggest offender in many cases. So maximum hosted image size was capped at 2MB per image. I've tentatively raised the cap to 5 MB to test the automatic image resizing which should help address storage concerns. Please try uploading your images again and send me a PM when you do. Please tell me the file sizes of the images that you uploaded and I'll check those figures against the file sizes of the images stored on the server. If the resizing is working the way I interpret that it should, all will be good. If not, we may have to come up with a better solution (which might include users resizing images locally before they're uploaded. Thanks in advance for helping me sort this out. Here are the details just in case anybody's interested: Our old hosting plan had unlimited storage but the environment was not compatible with the newest software. The new hosting plan (a VPS) is capped at 200 GB but meets environment requirements. It was necessary to switch servers in order to do our best to maintain a secure site, but we had to accept the resource limitation. I'm currently trying to tweak our backup settings to balance storage use and risk of data loss. The last backup plan did three backups (monthly, weekly, and daily), retaining only the last copy of each. So three backups plus the active image are stored on the server. That limited our backup size to 50 GB max (one quarter of the 200 GB). Our current active image is, including system files, sitting at about 40 GB. Image storage is the biggest culprit here and, since we raised the cap on file size a couple of years ago, the images since then (using the old software that did not do automatic resizing) became a real problem. One possible solution was recently suggested by an officer, which is to delete posts older than 12 months in the For Sale forum. This might go a long way to reclaiming storage to be used for future growth. It would have an impact on archival value of that section of the forum, but that may be way down the list of concerns. But it's something that needs to and will be discussed.

That's been helpful, for sure. The new software automatically resizes uploaded images, so that should work well for us, too.

The update is complete.

I'm going to shut down the Tapatalk plugin here on the forum because it's buggy with the new (v5) forum software and because, in recent years, it appears that development has stalled and software support is scant to non-existent. Instead, I ask that current WAMAS users of Tapatalk instead use their mobile device browser for access. The new skins available there that support mobile devices are excellent, and provide access to all of the forum's features. And, if you scroll to the bottom of the page (regardless of the skin, you can select light and dark themes). In the early days of Tapatalk, it provided many conveniences that weren't then available for mobile devices. They had active development and decent beta testing before releasing a product. And when their were reports, they quickly responded. That is not the case now. When, today, our system logfile fills with bad Tapatalk calls; when you can no longer reliably access your WAMAS PMs from the Tapatalk platform; when your community (and other forum community administrators) cannot get developer support to address critical technical shortcomings, it's time to move on. That's where WAMAS is today.

Also, the half-half icon may be code for whatever your (device) system theme is. Just a guess.

Try scrolling to the bottom of the page and see if you can find the light bulb and moon icons in the bottom-left. Click on the bulb for the light colored theme and the moon for the dark colored theme.

Thanks. Just a tiny bit different, right? The main page is not cumbersome with lots of space (well over 50%) devoted to generic icons? (That's what I was first faced with last night!)

I'd like to welcome Decamicron Labs as a WAMAS Platinum Sponsor. Thanks Adam (and Decamicron) for your support!

Can someone please tell me if the forum index and post listings look somewhat normal now? That is, in table format rather than a grid with huge, generic icons?