I need to ask everyone not to post very large photos. We have a storage limit on our hosting, and we are filling it up at an alarming rate of knots.
To give you some idea, 18 months ago our attachments folder contained 5GB. Today it contains 14.5GB. The total limit for our hosting is 50GB. (The rest of the site is trivial in comparison.)
I am not asking for any compromise in terms of the sharing of pictures - we love pictures and we want to see them.
The maximum width of a picture that can be shown in a post is 900px, and 650px is usually quite big enough to properly show almost anything. If you upload a picture larger than 900px wide, the excess size is completely wasted, but still has to be stored. It also slows down the loading of the page dramatically. This, in fact, is almost as important as the storage issue.
UttaReth's excellent Lunapic tutorial is
here, enabling you to resize your images very, very easily and then either download them to your own computer (so you can add them as attachments) or link to them (using the img tags).* Other image editing sites will do similar things, and you might prefer the way they function. Be Funky is one that has been recommended to me.
If you are posting directly from your phone there may be settings you can change, or apps that you can download to resize an image before you upload it to the site. I have a free app on my Android phone called Photo & Picture Resizer which does just that. I'm sure there are others available (I really am no phone expert!!)
So, in short, please resize your pictures before adding them as attachments, ideally to 650px wide, but definitely to no more than 900px wide.
I could put in a setting that would block pictures above a certain size, but it would be very inflexible, and I would rather trust to your common sense - however, if we carry on increasing our storage at this rate I will have to do something more drastic!
*Images posted using the [ img ] tags don't take up any space, so no problem there. NB This is the tag that I mean:
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
and it only works with images that are somewhere else on the internet - you click on it and then put the url into the box that pops up. It has
no function whatsoever with attached images.