Why would you need a picture to be 4MB size.. If it was a photography forum where you are admiring the most equisite fine detail.. It’s not like a 500KB picture is totally pixelated.. you can’t see the individual pixels.. A 500KB(or even less), picture is really clear.. Infact probably pictures of <100KB are often also really clear. (infact 500KB is ridiculous overkill)
I’ve never even heard of the problem of pictures not being high quality enough.
Perhaps what you are suggesting is that it should let you upload image files over 4MB.. That is absolutely insane.. And totally unnecessary.
You can screenshot your image and paste it on imgur, I guarantee it won’t be huge. And you will be able to upload it.
In the future your phone might make every picture 20MB. It’d be good if forum software could convert that automatically.. Or if you pit an app on your phone to convert it.
But it’s really wasteful for a forum to have huge hard drives resources for people posting pictures that are WAY bigger than they need to be.
When a picture can be 100KB and yours is 4MB, it is literally 40 times bigger than it needs to be. That’s a problem with what you are uploading. (And it wouldn’t surprise me if 100KB was way more than is necessary.. but 4MB is just through the roof mad). Just because 4MB is a mobile phone default, doesn’t make it right. And you can convert it with an app or very easily very fast and efficiently, with snippy and imgur.. (and perhaps at source even more efficiently if you find a good app)
I just tried making a screenshot of an image, and saving it in mspaint as png, – try it – that was/ may be 300KB which is overkill(and still over 10* less than what is supported!!).. Try saving it as jpg, now 40KB. And you want 4MB? That’s literally not just 40 times bigger than it needs to be, That’s 400 times bigger! !!!