Reply To: 01-06-10 – Animals

[Elsinore]

WinnipegDragon: Oddly enough the image wasn’t cached for me, but when I downloaded it, it was 69k which should be fine. Dunno if it was set up to pull from a larger size (which might have tripped the file size sensors) but either way, I restored it. There were several other wayward images in the ether, and they were only 160k and one that was only 100k. I have no real explanation other than sometimes image hosts hiccup briefly. If your image is deleted and it says it was a broken image, it was almost certainly that your file size was too large or your hosting hiccuped at some point. It’s fixable, just let us know.

For future reference, Fark’s file size limit (fuzzy though it may be) is 200k with images fairly likely to drop if they’re over 180k. Images seem to be safest when you keep them under 150k. Like linguine, I just upload Fark size images to my Flickr acct, then I’m reasonably certain they should be ok and that Flickr won’t be serving up the wrong file size (it also gives me control over the compression when I do it myself rather than letting Flickr do it). I almost never post images over 100k myself.