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Submitted by caedes 09/08/13 8:22 PM GMT
Yesterday I made some changes to the way image uploads are handled. The new system will accept your image immediately, but it will not process the image (make the thumbnail and preview sizes) for a few minutes. This is designed to reduce the load on the server (because resizing large images takes a lot of computation). After a few minutes, the server will create two smaller sizes of your image and upload them to the "cloud" (Amazon web services). By using the cloud we will not have to worry about running out of storage space on the image server as we have had to in the past.
The second change is related to the viewing of images. I decided against automatically creating a lot of different sizes of each image because it is wasteful on storage space. Instead, you just click on the image preview and you get the full-size image (resized to fit your screen). You can then right-click to save it and you'll always get the original sized image as it was uploaded.
We will be making some other changes to further streamline the upload and image viewing process. In particular, I want to immediately forward you to the image display page when you upload an image (as it previously worked).
