Images in chat multiply in weight and size!

eminem08

I found a very big problem in the JomSocial chat!

When in a chat on my website I sent this image to my friend (which weighed 35kb on my computer and was 547x252 pixels in size), then when processed by the JomSocial component, this image began to weigh many times more - 1.84 mb. and its size became 1024x471 !!! Why did this happen? Why is the image resizing and why is it enlarged many times in size?

Can you tell the developers to fix this issue? Images must not grow in size! Image resolutions should not get higher when transferring images in chat! This is not the right way!

Please fix this problem in the next issue of JomSocial! This is very critical!

Ninja

eminem08
Hi
When an image is uploaded in the JomSocial it change its size depend on the quality set in Photos settings.
To make lowest size you can set the image quality to low : http://prntscr.com/ucq1og

eminem08

Ninja This setting allows you to change only the image quality (whether to apply compression or not)

But where can I specify not to increase the resolution of images? Why was the original 547x252px image enlarged to 1024x471px? This is a bug! Pixel resolution must not change! I can only understand if the resolution was very high and the site would eventually publish an image with a lower resolution (as is done in all social networks). Why is it the other way around in JomSocial? This is a bug! Let the developers know about it!

Ninja

eminem08
Hi
Its not bug each image after upload resize and goes into the photos folder depend on the size of the image. Its a feature to in Jomsocial photos to set the image quality. When the quality changes it also make changes in the size.

eminem08

Ninja But this is not the right way to change the image resolution to a higher one! Can you make a separate tweak so that I can prevent the image from being resized to a larger resolution?

Your setting controls only image compression, but there is no way to specify whether the image resolution should be changed.

This is a very serious problem and a bug!

What if I send an icon (16x16px) to my friend via the chat bar and I don't want the icon size to be increased to 1024x1024px !!! It is not right! Images in the chat bar should not be resized upward.

Perhaps for JomSocial you need to make a separate setting, with which you can specify what to do with images that users send to each other in chat, because the general gallery of user photos and private messages in chat are two completely different things!

I have never seen anything like this on any website to change the image resolution! It is not right way!

I want the developers to see my message, maybe they will understand something. This is a very serious bug in JomSocial.

Ninja

eminem08
Hi
The thread has been shared with dev team member for further checking on this request.

Update from Dev team :

Open components\com_community\helpers\image.php
components\com_community\controllers\photos.php
and override files with attached files to change the image size in chat.

About the about separate photo setting on chat and gallery Dev team said its not possible in current version as its need to built a new code and can be added later depend on more requests.
At the moment if you want to send an image without any changes in size of dimension you can send it as a file.

patch.zip

48kB

eminem08

Ninja

At the moment if you want to send an image without any changes in size of dimension you can send it as a file.

I have blocked sending files on my site for security reasons. I left the option to only send images.

I just hope the new setup is like this:
1) Do not resize the image (do not resize 16x16px to 1024x1024px)
2) If the image is larger than 1024x1024px, then reduce the size to 1024x1024px. (for example: the user uploaded an image with a size of 1500x1500px and then JomSocial reduces the size to 1024x1024px)

This principle of work in all social networks and photo hosting - if you upload big image to Facebook, Instagram or another site, the image is automatically reduced. But if you upload a small image (for example 150x150px), then the size does not change.

Ninja

eminem08
Hi
At the moments its not something instant tweak as the Photo upload work in JomSocial with the Quality options and size. I shared the feedback already on dev team for further discussion on it.

Regards