FabSwingers.com forum: New Pics

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

We were looking to update the pics on our galleries.

Not that we've changed much,if at all from the previous ones,its just that it seemed the right thing to do.

However,we joined the site in the 9 pics per gallery days, before the new 12 pic total rule for basic members.

This means we'd have to drop at least 8 pics to update 2 which is just not gonna happen.

Is this rule stopping any other basic members from updating their galleries?

It seems a bummer to us!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"pay a fiver ya cheap skate , then u can have 150 pics

Well at this time I'm waiting for a knee operation,due next month.

So as I'm not working and on basic ESA money until I get better,thats not an option.

We're not wanting 150,just what we started with.

XXXX

By *j_markCouple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

We've explained this (to you) in detail before but in case anyone missed it we'll copy and paste here again. It must be annoying to have less space available to you, since you previously filled the 9+9 allocation. Most people however didn't and had less private photos than public so on average most free members now have MORE pics on the site than before we made the change from 9+9 to 12 total.

http://www.fabswingers.com/forum/feedback/3360

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It's not just site space, it's space on our servers, bandwidth on uploading and bandwidth when people view the photos. Bandwidth and disk space are pretty much our biggest costs. The space of forum posts and bandwidth is a tiny fraction of the photos.

Limits. There isn't a limit of 6 per gallery there's a total limit of 12, which is different.

We introduced this limit because our software at the time we took over the site counted gallery numbers in total whereas previously the software counted private/public and restricted at 9 max in each gallery.

On average most people had less than 12 pictures and if they had over 12, they were fine to stay.

However if we suddenly increased total number of allowable pics to 18 (9+9) we'd have actually had a massive increase in number of photos people added because the majority of photos people have are public and we'd have increased the potential number of these public photos to 18 (doubled!). Ideally of course we'd have stuck with the 9+9 limits but we had a million other areas to concentrate on and creating new programming to handle that wasn't top of the list.

Which is why we went for 12 total. A compromise, if you will.

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