I'm compressing mine at 100% with Gimp, and they never take more than 25Kb. I hope that's not too much...

To editors - please whenever humanly possible include an image in news posts for when I post them onto G+ and Facebook, as they pick up images from posts and it makes people far more likely to check the news out.

Also remember a lot of people won't ever see the front page as they will be linked directly to the news so best practice is to generally include tagline text in the main post.

Also now taglines cannot exceed 400 characters (including bbcode), should have done that ages ago but it's their now!

Updated all admin help texts on article add/editing/accept to reflect the changes.

Edited the Aeon Command price drop article to include the price in Euro. :)

You mean we've got to come up with two images now? Have you considered putting the preview image into whichever meta tags G+ cares about instead of requiring it of editors?

If the guideline is to put the tagline text into main posts, why not just include that automatically?

If you can find me the tags to use that would be a good solution.

I went through tagline stuff before, taglines are separate to make things easier.

Okay I managed to do some digging and it should now be implemented so you can ignore the requirement of an image on all posts now :), all posts do require a tagline image though.


One thing I will ask from now on - No videos in taglines. I will be removing the code that picks out videos from taglines for the side images shortly.


Save videos for the actual main post please everyone. Speeds up the home page load time and makes it consistent for look and for G+ and Facebook grabbing the image.

Totally agree with no videos on taglines.

Sweet. Anything that streamlines the article creation process is a good thing :)

Whatever happened to pagination arrows? They have completely disappeared from everywhere (both articles' comments and here in the forum).

I guess Liam is twiddling again with the page design, but I'm reporting it anyway in case it wasn't intentional.