Hi,

I would have no objections to 1MB as a new Gallery limit, if feasible regarding storage space, higher traffic and overall increased costs. As suggested above, R'osity then could consider to provide a "premium gallery service" for uploading images up to 1MB.

Personally, I prefer browsing Gallery images under 500kB filesize and images that are less than 3000 pixels wide on screen. (Unless images would be intended for printing purposes). The Gallery thumbnails already display the filesize by mouse-over, which I really appreciate!

Besides "image filesize":
Is there no such check for images in Signatures and in Gallery Comments, compared to the restrictions for Avatars, Banners and Forum attachments?  

I remember (though only few):

• Forum post Signatures with embedded images over 250kB (one even beyond 1MB, iirc). Or Signatures with external server links to show swf/image files, some quite large in filesize. Mostly being animated stuff, which might explain such filesizes.
• Forum post threads that contained embedded images beyond 2MB! (Does the according 200kB limit only affect attachments?)
• Some Gallery Comments with embedded images of several hundred kB. (That visual comment certainly being a nice intention, but sometimes being larger than the original Gallery image above it, g).

Sorry, I have no such examples by hand and searching the forums/galleries with my current slow "rural pre-DSL connection" is no fun. An Admin with according database tools could certainly find such examples more easily.

Hubert

"All that we see or fear, is but a Sphere inside a Sphere."     (E. A. Pryce -- Tuesday afternoon, 1845)