Attachments (Split from Donations Topic)

[wallyweb]

From some OT chatter in my topic here, is the "3 attachment" limit set in stone, or could it be removed with the 6MB limit being relied upon instead?

[orudge]

Well, there will definitely be some limit - it's particularly a concern with screenshots, etc (we don't really want people posting 20 of those in a row). In theory it could be raised to, say, 4 or 5, but is there a particular need? You can always just post more posts, and perhaps have an index post as the first post of your thread if need be.

As for the 6MB limit, I hear reports that it actually doesn't work properly, and the effective limit is still 4MB. Unfortunately, I cannot tell why this is, as everything seems to be set to 6MB, but there's some gremlin somewhere that's causing problems. Also, the 4/6MB limit is per-file, not for all attachments in a post.

[Kogut]

I suggest to raise limit to 5. It will be able to kill screenshot flood with removing (partially) problems in newgrf/ai section.

[Ammler]

So what is the advantage of 10 posts in a row (together with 10 signatures) against 10 attachments in same post?

[orudge]

I suppose my preference is that any individual post doesn't become unmanageably long, although of course, there are ways that could happen without lots of attachments.