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Visit "Photos" on the NavBar at any time to see the Main PhotoGallery, showing you ALL the images on Team-BHP in one place:
Alternatively, within threads, you can click the "Photos" button to display all the images from that specific thread.
The button also shows you the number of attachments present in that thread:
Clicking that button pops up the Thread Gallery interface:
Click any image in a post to load the full-resolution version, enhancing detail & legibility of text.
You can then zoom in further, or swipe left/right to browse other pics that are currently loaded on the page.
Try it on this example below:
Click a Member's name beside their post and select "View All Pictures by <Member>" to see all the pictures they have uploaded to Team-BHP:
...or you can even do this from their member profile page, which shows total & daily photo upload stats too:
And since you must be curious, click here to view the gallery of all pictures uploaded by *YOU*. :)
View any Thread Gallery from the results of New Posts, New Topics, Searches, or even Forum Sections by clicking the paperclip icon:
Fine-tune the displayed results by using the following search fields in isolation, or any combination of them together.
Note that within Thread Galleries the Title Search and Forum Category selections will not be present as they aren't applicable.
These provide information about the number of returned images, search term, selected sub-forum etc, as applicable.
You can also remove a chip by clicking "X" which will delete it from the search criteria.
A quick way to access the most frequented image-heavy threads & sections.
A wide range of thumbnail sizes to choose from, based on your specific device and personal preference.
Tip: Within Thread Galleries on Mobile, try the "Huge" size to get a full-width scrollable list of images (like WhatsApp).
This one is pretty self-explanatory. Sorting by Post Thanks or Randomize can surface some interesting posts.
Care about the date an image was posted, or want to know when you're at the end of today's images? Turn on Group Results, which adds a date heading to the displayed pics.
When you've spent a long time scrolling into the depths of the Gallery, this button will conveniently scroll you back to the top of the page in a flash.
You can use the keyboard left/right arrow keys to move between images, and the ESC key to close the Gallery.
CTRL+scroll will zoom.
You can swipe left & right between images, and either single-tap or swipe up/down to close the image.
You can zoom with a double tap, or pinch to zoom in even further.
In the past, the keen-eyed photographers have pointed out that our earlier compression + watermarking solution was degrading the quality of displayed pictures to a sometimes noticeable degree.
We've entirely reworked the image processing workflow. Uploaded images are no longer passed through JPEG's lossy compression twice over (once for resizing and then at run-time for watermarking). We've streamlined the entire thing into one process and tweaked it for improvements.
Results:
- Higher-quality images
- Lower file sizes (ie. faster loading)
In an image test suite of 11 carefully chosen pics, we saw the overall payload size decrease from 2,630KB to 1,776KB with an improvement in quality.
The best part of this news? These quality improvements have been applied RETROACTIVELY! Meaning, that all 2Million+ uploaded images have been reprocessed so that the thumbnail (the image displayed in the thread with the magnifying glass icon in the bottom right) is now the new and improved quality version :). This was possible since vBulletin keeps the unchanged originals of all uploaded attachments on the server.
In case you missed it...
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Originally Posted by Rehaan
(Post 5562145)
Apple users will be happy to know that .heic & .heif images can now be uploaded from your devices directly to Team-BHP! While almost no modern browsers natively support these formats, we've set up our software to seamlessly convert your HEIC images to JPGs behind the scenes, so you don't have to worry about converting your pictures when creating your next Team-BHP Review or Travelogue. The upload process is functionally identical, with just the addition of a step where the HEIC files are automatically converted to JPGs before being sent to our servers:  |
• For Thumbnail Size, Sort Order & Group Results: Your choice of setting will be remembered per browser/device, and also independently between the Main Gallery & Thread Galleries, since you might have slightly different viewing preferences for each of those.
• The HTML for images within threads now also contains image width & height data, so your browser can render the page without any page layout shift caused by images loading. You'll see a placeholder as well, so you won't overlook any images when you're on a terribly slow internet connection.
• One unfortunate downside is that due to the way Official Review pictures were uploaded earlier (ie. not via the Team-BHP attachment system), they won't appear in the Gallery. However, we preemptively changed this earlier in 2023, so those + all future Official Review pics will display as expected within the Gallery.
• Future updates to the Gallery might include a feature where a caption text for each image is auto-selected based on the text above/below that image in the post.
• Random stat: 20 members with the most attachment uploads...
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Originally Posted by Rehaan
(Post 5661924)
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Originally Posted by Dry Ice
(Post 5662306)
Just curious about the most visual threads on the board. I checked the scale model thread gallery, that has over 22,000 photos! |
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