Image quality in PH articles...

[thebraketester]

Probably to put people off hot-linking and sapping precious bandwidth :-)

[Funk]

Dr Interceptor said:

It's not just the quality, but the size of photos is so poor for a media website in 2018.

My general PH use is in the forums, then occasionally look at the news. If there's a new car released, I'll head to TopGear.com or another site where I can get a nice full screen gallery.

I never even bother with the rest of the site now, I get any car stuff elsewhere as it's miles better.

PH could be amazing but they're letting it die.

[RumbleOfThunder]

An article dedicated to photos, without irony. Come on chaps.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Ultra Sound Guy]

I think you guys are being too unfair!
All those other pictures are from professional publishers who car about their customers, their business and their readers.

And this is PistonHeads.

[RumbleOfThunder]

Time to bump since there have been a few red car articles lately.

https://www.pistonheads.com/regulars/ph-spottedyky...





Click for the full hideousness!

Edited by RumbleOfThunder on Monday 16th July 15:05

Edited by RumbleOfThunder on Monday 16th July 15:09

[thebraketester]

[RumbleOfThunder]

Cracking new Jag!

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/jaguar-...

Evo:



PH:

Edited by RumbleOfThunder on Monday 16th July 15:08

[RumbleOfThunder]

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonhea...

Honda provided a beautiful 1.6MB press release image and this is what PH mangle did to it:




Whereas on MCN:

[Plug Life]

They must be using some server-side image resizer script from 1997

[RoverP6B]

It really does seem that Haymarket couldn't give a monkeys about investing in digital media...

[Funk]

I just wish they'd offload it to someone who actually gives a st rather than drive it into the ground.

[loudlashadjuster]

RoverP6B said:

It really does seem that Haymarket couldn't give a monkeys about investing in digital media...

...which would be the case if Autocar, What Car and Classic & Sportscar weren't absolutely fine.

I'd be prepared to accept that there is some legacy PH cruft to blame here but we really are talking a relatively small amount of work to slot in some other image manipulation library to whatever godawful CMS they must be using.

Hey PH, you could even spin it as a great forum improvement and get a few front page stories linking to red cars in the classifieds out of the change, make it pay its own way, yeah?

[RumbleOfThunder]

Ok this might be the worst yet. Maybe these images would pass 10 years ago but its 2018!!

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonhea...





Also the gist of this article is "hey doesn't the Senna look good in dark green??" Erm dunno pal.

[RumbleOfThunder]

Phwoar get that on your bedroom wall kids!

[RumbleOfThunder]

This is the the same crop of the image McLaren provided to press, in the lowest of 3 available resolutions:

[RoverP6B]

When are PH going to start listening?! This is beyond a joke! McLaren's press department must be seriously pissed off about that, surely!

[thebraketester]

RoverP6B said:

When are PH going to start listening?!

Never...

[RumbleOfThunder]

Where are you techies?

You showed some interest on page 1 when you thought it was a browser problem.

[RumbleOfThunder]

https://www.pistonheads.com/regulars/ph-potw/nsx-o...

[Plug Life]

RumbleOfThunder said:

Where are you techies?

Playing Fortnite.