07-06-2015, 05:59 PM
(07-06-2015, 05:31 PM)Calabrese Wrote:(07-06-2015, 05:22 PM)Surge Wrote: Because people click links.
Indeed they do. The Internet would be infinitely more complicated to use, not to mention unwieldy, without links. Imagine if instead of having links to the relevant articles, every linked article in a Wikipedia page was included in its entirety.
People click links sent by their friends out of habit.
This behavior is exploited by malware authors to get people to click on things they would normally ignore.
And my server is actually kinda sluggish. If your pic is so large that it can't load completely by the time my server has finished sending you the site layout and everyone else's stuff, you probably should link it.
Works out to anything over a megabyte or two for modern connectivity.
But bear in mind, there are people in the town I live in that still use dialup as their primary internet access. And many people are restricted to cellphones, which are limited on both speed and total monthly transfer as well as tiny screens that already have a ton of scrolling to do.
Huge images just make it impossible for phone browsers, and people using cell internet or slower will not be able to load pages in a timely manner.
Really all there is to it. Be a bit more tactful in your use of reaction images, and anything with a large filesize or excessively page-stretching should be a link instead.
Feel free to PM me if anything is broken