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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
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I'm not sure I understand the policy for how many pictures can be in each post.
The "picture posting" thread says 5 is the limit per post, but in some TRs I've read there are many many pictures. Most of these seem to be moderator's TRs, and I understand that they would have that privilege. But I'm not sure all of the ones I've seen with lots of pictures are moderators.
I'm not trying to be petty, I'm just curious.
I *think* once you have done atleast one full TR you can request allowance from the moderators to post more than five pictures in one post. Hope that helps...
I always thought that if you were uploading and attaching your photos that's where the 5 pic limit comes into play. I always thought that if you linked in pics from like photobucket and that they were managebale sized pics that you could put in a reasonable number. Though, I could be totally wrong.
I *think* once you have done atleast one full TR you can request allowance from the moderators to post more than five pictures in one post. Hope that helps...
I think this allowance request has to do with overall amount of pictures you can upload - increasing it from 5MB to 10MB
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Originally Posted by unewillow
I always thought that if you were uploading and attaching your photos that's where the 5 pic limit comes into play. I always thought that if you linked in pics from like photobucket and that they were managebale sized pics that you could put in a reasonable number. Though, I could be totally wrong.
Hmm. This might be it. I've never used photobucket or anything like that. Just upload my pics one at a time.
I wrote my first TR back in 2004 and only included 5 pictures per post and then I never meet the overall limit. But the next year I had really gotten into preserving our trip through a report and found that I wanted to include more pictures. I followed the process and was approved for more space within a day (and that was long before I became a moderator).
I wrote my first TR back in 2004 and only included 5 pictures per post and then I never meet the overall limit. But the next year I had really gotten into preserving our trip through a report and found that I wanted to include more pictures. I followed the process and was approved for more space within a day (and that was long before I became a moderator).
I went through that process as well and am currently in "trip reporter" group but I was still only able to upload and post 5 photos per post in my last trip report. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
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I went through that process as well and am currently in "trip reporter" group but I was still only able to upload and post 5 photos per post in my last trip report. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
The Trip Report group has nothing to do with the number of pictures in a post. That remains at 5 pictures/images per post, for anyone regardless of their status (member/guide/administrator). All the Trip Report group does is increase the amount of memory on your account from 5 MB to 10 MB, for those who upload pictures a lot and would exceed the 5 MB limit. If you're linking from another site, you should never run into a MB issue as you're just providing a link here, your pictures are uploaded (hence their MBs) on another website.
You can "upload" a maximum of 5 pictures to a post on these boards. If you're linking pictures from another site (Photobucket, Shutterfly, etc.) you can link as many as you want into a post. Or, if you want to upload to a different place on the boards (like the Driveway/Testing forum), you can upload in multiple posts there, and then copy the URLs and paste them all into one post here in this forum.
I'm one of those TR writers that has more than 5 pics per post. I just copy them from Shutterfly or Walgreens and paste them where needed in the report - to avoid uploading them one by one and to not have the storage issue. I've never had a problem with it that way.
Thanks for the explanation. Now I know.
I'll have to experiment a bit with that sometime. I use Walmart to create photo albums for the purpose of purchasing photos, but I didn't realize I could also use that to cut and paste them into a report.
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