Which way are you posting your screenshots to the forums?
For those who have made posts with screenshots, especially if you've put a story/SimLit, on the new forums, which have you found works better? To post screenshots from a url or directly on site? Is there a space limit for uploads for your entire account or just the post (I can't find that information)?
I want to put a story I've been working on onto the forum, but I'm not sure what to choose for screenshots. I've added two screenshots for a challenge/contest I entered last week and just uploaded them to the forum since it was only two using jpeg with low kb. But the story would use a lot more screenshots so I don't know which way would be best. Or if it even matters.
Uploading images to the forum generally works really well. I've been doing it a lot for the No CC Decades Challenge thread and so far no problems.
However, without spoilers a picture heavy thread is hard to read. The show more feature (instead of pages) means that there is a lot to load when the story gets longer. For the thread mentioned above that is not a huge issue, as I've included links to the different portions of the thread and you can settle for just loading those comments. For a story thread, however, it gets hard to load. For my own story (The Whittaker Saga) I have therefore set up a blog where I write the posts and then just link to that and add a single image in each comment. That way the size is kept down and the one image can help guide readers into 'have I read this or not yet?' territory so they click the right link.
I hope that helps you in your decision of what is right for you.
