New here but having trouble...

[Guest]

Hello all.  We're new here and REALLY enjoying the site a lot!  But we're getting a little frustrated with technical restrictions we're running into.  For example, we answer a few notifications that users are "following" us and then suddenly get a notice that we have exceeded posts or something for the day.  We try to create a gallery and post some of our photos but can't because we get a notification that, even on the smallest of photo files, that the file would "exceed the total allowed size and was skipped."  We try to add a photo when responding to thank someone for following us and we get "file would exceed the total allowed size of 3.137kB, and was skipped.  Is this because we are new and will eventually be able to answer more email and notifications?  And eventually be able to post our photos? 

Sorry if these things are explained elsewhere but we weren't able to find those rules.  Thanks for any help and advice.

[viking8x6]

11 hours ago, TabooSonDad said:

Hello all.  We're new here and REALLY enjoying the site a lot!  But we're getting a little frustrated with technical restrictions we're running into.

 

Is this because we are new and will eventually be able to answer more email and notifications?  And eventually be able to post our photos?

Short answer: Yes, it's because you are new. When you keep posting in the public forums, you will (fairly quickly) accrue enough reputation points that you'll be promoted to "Junior Member", which has substantially more privileges.

That includes private messages, the ability to post reaction emojis, etc.

The photo size limit is a *total* upload space limit, and I think there are separate ones for things in the Galleries and for attachments on private messages and things posted to your Activity. I'm not sure whether those increase with membership level. There are some tools you can use to manage your uploads; you can find those in the "My Attachments" menu option (pull-down from your screen name in the upper left corner of the UI) and on your own Albums and Images tabs. I recommend you delete images with large file sizes and repost lower-resolution versions of them. The site runs on fairly old software (it started in 2010) and camera file sizes have ballooned since then, so it's not set up for those.

Below are a couple of topics in Tips & Tricks that discuss all this in more detail:

 

[PozBearWI]

Thanks @viking8x6.  As an admin on another similar site I want to toss in that a lot of the reasons we put in such initial restrictions is to help the longer term survivability of our websites.  There are no shortages of people who disagree with any of us discussing what we discuss here.  So before we open up the floodgates to unrestricted posts we want to give time for people to reveal who they are (might be an over simplification but somewhat our "why").  

[BootmanLA]

I'll also add: this is strictly a personal view, so take with the appropriate grain of salt. There are some topics here where a photo added to a post makes sense - if you're wanting people to help identify a porn performer, for instance. But by and large, most discussions are hampered, not enhanced by people sticking dick pics and ass pics into the discussion, even if the discussion is about sex. We all know what dicks look like, we all know what asses look like, and just because you're giving an opinion on how nice a bare cock feels in your ass, or whatever, there's really no need for an image to back that up.

We all (or almost all) enjoy porn - and that's fine, but this isn't a porn site. It's a discussion forum. I've seen posts in the past that added exactly nothing to the conversational thread except "me too", followed by eight or ten photos of randos having sex. Give it a rest.