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Originally Posted by underscore

just click on the ones you like, and you get them fullsize in a new tab. it isn't hard, and with the number of hits some of these threads get it saves time/power/money.

Originally Posted by 77civic1200

I'm not an expert on webpages/bandwith at all, far from it, but wouldn't it make more sense to say get rid of the first 200 pages of this thread to save space? would that give us some more room to post real photos instead of tiny thumbnails?

Originally Posted by ColinK

Hey man, not to like correct you, but, unfortunately it actually doesn't even save any time/power/money

That's because the picture itself is still the save size and still all has to be loaded. It just scales it (not an actual resize) so that when people post HUGE images, they still fit on a normal screen and dont throw the whole thread page out of wack.

If you right click on any of these images (with firefox anyways) and select properties, you'll see the actual real size of the image, and the size that it scaled (shrunk) it down to.

It also doesn't make a spec of difference to RS's storage space, since the images aren't stored on RS's server - ALL of them are hosted elsewhere and the forum simply links to them. When you view the pic, your browser is pulling it directly from wherever it's hosted.