Pete M Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 either yourself or if you have someone you know/trust that's got skills. the script that is supposed to auto-shrinking the images isn't doing its job and we need someone to look into it. the fullsize images are eating up more and more space that is upping our monthly bill. there are some other things that need to be addressed, but this is the most pressing. @Big_Mark is on point for this since he knows way more than I about the coding aspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Let me check with a friend of mine at school. Hopefully he'll be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 No luck with my ECE friend, unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeyyank Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 I know someone that builds and maintains website. Built mine for my company and my friends has used him for years to build and maintain his site. If you want their info shoot me a PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kook911 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 It might be worth a shot to throw the question and script in Chat or Gemini and see if either one can fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 it's not so much a coding thing, it's the actual website application update issue. To get the update "we" need to subscribe to the, presumably free, "Invision Community" edition of the website software. I think if the site was updated, we could get the image resizer working since it looks like it's a built-in feature. The caveat here is, if we update the site software and something breaks without support were back to square one, or worse. So, we need someone familiar with the Invision Forum web applications Sign up for Invision Community - Invision Community or "we" the userbase needs to pony up some $$ to get the site updated and hopefully the image resizing will work again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hgeranium Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 46 minutes ago, Big_Mark said: it's not so much a coding thing, it's the actual website application update issue. To get the update "we" need to subscribe to the, presumably free, "Invision Community" edition of the website software. I think if the site was updated, we could get the image resizer working since it looks like it's a built-in feature. The caveat here is, if we update the site software and something breaks without support were back to square one, or worse. So, we need someone familiar with the Invision Forum web applications Sign up for Invision Community - Invision Community or "we" the userbase needs to pony up some $$ to get the site updated and hopefully the image resizing will work again. How much are we looking price-wise to update? I’m sure a handful of members chipping in would make it not too bad. I’d certainly help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I'll ask the sales people at Invision for guidance and will get a solid price then will post up here. I really hope we can pull together to get this handled, this site is a great resource, and community, especially for us "non social media" types, WEB FORUMS FOR THE WIN!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I just sent the help request and will report back when I have something to report In the meantime, keep your uploads small people! :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hgeranium Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 4 hours ago, Big_Mark said: I just sent the help request and will report back when I have something to report In the meantime, keep your uploads small people! :-D Thank you again for your work, Mark! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 On 2/18/2026 at 4:36 PM, Big_Mark said: I just sent the help request and will report back when I have something to report In the meantime, keep your uploads small people! :-D any word? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Negative, less than nothing from them. It appears most of these forums are mostly self-managed, meaning the site owners keep them up to date, customize them etc. I've started looking into other platforms to see if there is somewhere we can bounce to. Sorry gang I wish I had better news here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Just venting an aggravation here, but what’s bugs me is the one who did all the stuff for us and keeping us up to date didn’t exactly pass the torch for us to stay going. I mean yeah we’re doing good, we can be out of date and still have the webpage running but it’s just something that bugs me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Agreed, not sure who that was or why they stopped but it puts the rest of us in a bind. I wish I have time to learn all this stuff but my job uses up my "tech Brains" by the time I'm off I just want to go out and mow my yard, pull weeds, anything but sit at a computer and do computer stuff. With that said I will keep looking for a solution, there has to be a non Facebook way to continue at a reasonable price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvagedcircuit Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Curious, the old script that handled the resizing, how was it implemented? Where was it hosted? Was it something like a python script that ran when a new image entered a queue to be hosted on the server? If it's possible to look at the current implementation and just modify it / fix it that would be the best option. Are there any forum backups to compare potential backend changes? @kook911 is right on the money. Claude, copilot and perplexity are incredibly competent at basic programming at this point in time, march 2026. I'd love to give a hand, maybe in a week or so when work calms down a bit. I hate the forced update methodology of forum software where you end up just shoveling money into a platform that never gets updated (cough, cough, vBulletin) I remember notebookreview and hardforum having tremendous amounts of trouble with vBulletin. interface never changed. no security updates ever. massive hack. Hardforum moved to XenForo and has had great success with it. I have no idea how expensive it is. I mainly have experience hosting personal websites on apache / ubuntu instances. I have not dealt with forum software yet. let me know how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 The old script from what I can tell is baked into the site service/runs on the host virtual machine (Ubuntu ultimately). I saw it (can't remember the name of the resizing service) as an option to enable in the site management settings once but am not able to find the "toggle" again. The "whoever" was working on the site updates in the past sent an email to Pete talking about the underlying database engine having issues post upgrade which somehow degraded the image resizing software etc. but as I am not a database guru I don't know what it meant. Stack that on top of the site is behind a few versions, to get access to the new versions it requires a $ubscription. Once the site is updated, things may or may not work which is a major concern. There doesn't seem to be any level of support beyond another forum for this site service. As for Claude and "Chad GPT" unless you are somewhat knowledgeable of the thing you are trying to fix, I would steer clear of those options. I use Chad daily for my job and honestly, it's a great way to waste time %80 of the time, however there is that %20 of insight that often get me to my solution, but GAWDAMMMMM is it hard to get there. Anyways let m know if you have any other ideas or questions. Ideally if the "whoever" could come back and UN***k this i'd by them some beer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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