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Hey guys,

People have been asking for more secrets per post and asking why the subs post is closed and the subs post is filling up really fast and stuff and -- well ok anyway, we decided to up the secret max to 700 a week (starting with the submission post in an hour, which means you'll get to see them a week from now). Which means a couple of things:

A) potentially 100 secrets a post, yay (!!!111!/???/.../eta: HOLY CRAP -- take your pick)
B) we're limiting the file size to 600x600px from 800x800px to cut down on loading times for people (sorry if your secret is already made and ready or something)
C) ???
D) ~~wank~~ ~~profit~~ fandomsecrets

Anyone have any suggestions or questions or problems or anything before we put this into practice?

Note: these posts begin Saturday the 26th and on -- that is, the secrets submitted next week, not this week!

Note 2: If you can, avoid using imageshack.us to host your files! They tend to run out of bandwidth quickly and then your secret can't be seen. If you need other sites to use, tinypic.com and photobucket.com are two more reliable image hosts.

Note 3: It's not actually the dimensions but the file sizes of the images that matter the most regarding loading time -- we're just using the dimensions as a guideline because it's something everyone understands. If you could try to keep the file size of your image as low as possible (save them as .jpg/.gif, not .bmp/.png for example), that would help us out a ton. For those looking for file converters,

haruhiism recs this one here.

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A) You could break it up into two posts. Just post them at the same time. I doubt anyone would mind it too much, and it would help for slow connections if you do up the nymber of secrets.

B) I don't think it's the dimensions that are the issue--it's the actual file size. Maybe you should stress that people try to optimize their files as best they can. Of course, this might be hard since not everyone knows how to do that, but for those who know how to do it it would probably be a huge help. Seriously, secrets do not all need to be 150k or more. This site (http://www.jpegwizard.com/) is an online jpeg optimizer for people who don't have the software to do it themsleves.

Very seconded, on both counts.

Yeah, I know it's mostly the file size, but yeah, like you said, it's kind of hard to explain and enforce and stuff.

But the double post thing is a good idea! We'll keep that in mind if a single post ends up taking too long for people and doesn't work or something!

That's the only problem. Dimensions are at least one thing nearly everyone understands. Still, it might be good to give people a heads up about doing it if they know how. Not as a rule or anything, just as common courtesy.

Alright, awesome!

Editing it into the post now!

Also, please ignore all the typos there. GOD, I need to sleep.

I second breaking the post up into two parts.

My internet is a decent speed, but it often skips over images and I have to reload the page a few times to get everything to show up (this could very well be the computer).

If it's your computer, then it's my computer, too? I end up reloading once or twice if I want to catch all the secrets.

That happens to me too, but only when I am on DSL. Everything loads fine on cable, so I think it has to do with connection speed.

Fourth'd on having to refresh to get everything O-O