[sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size

[Chris McDowell]

Our phones (iphones at least) do give us the option of reducing image size when sending, so maybe that's the right solution (and the one I used just before this thread). 

hosting the pics at an external link isn't easy enough from the phone, that's always felt like a communication barrier to me. same thing goes for cropping or resizing on the phone, it is not simple enough to reduce an image size directly on the phone. requiring a process like that would inhibit communication. maybe it's just the bleeding millennial heart in me, but I believe we should leverage our tools to make communication easier and more natural. I do understand the concern over size limits, one of today's tasks is convincing management that "no, we will not receive and parse 10KB of json on microcontroller, it's too big..." 


> On Nov 1, 2022, at 10:25 AM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
> 
> +1 agree.
> 
> The 1MB limit forces people to think a bit before uploading. That's a good thing!
> 
>> On 1 Nov 2022, at 15:15, grant musictechnologiesgroup.com <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm also of the thought that 1MB is fine. How hard is it to crop and/or 
>> resize a photo? Or convert to a resonable JPG?  Cell phone pics 
>> particularly seem gigantic.
>> 
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From: "Neil Johnson via Synth-diy" <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>> To: "Ben Stuyts" <ben at stuyts.nl>
>> Cc: "SDIY List" <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>> Sent: 11/1/2022 6:45:05 AM
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size
>> 
>>> Hi Ben,
>>> 
>>>> Would there be any objections if I raised the limit to, say, 4 MB? Times are changing and I personally don’t know anyone where this would be a problem.
>>> 
>>> Personally I would keep it at 1MB - if you can't get your message
>>> across in 1MB then resize it.  How will the archive survive with the
>>> extra load?  This is an email list, not a web forum, and while the
>>> traffic is not huge it doesn't take too many replies-with-attachments
>>> to fill up an email inbox, and many times I'm reading email on a
>>> smartphone.
>>> 
>>> Neil
>>> 
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