# Image compression and resizing **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [August 27, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-compression-and-resizing/32614 "2015-08-27T21:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![charleswalter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/charleswalter/32/116433_2.png) [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-compression-and-resizing/32614/10 "2015-08-28T02:27:39Z")
good thoughts @sam. keeping the image sizes in posts under 200KB (desktop) and 20KB (mobile) would probably be nice for our community, but I’m glad that the files are not over 1MB. I am pleased with the sizes I’m seeing. @codinghorror, i downloaded a bunch of my FB images on my laptop. From the standard photo album they were around 100KB. When I went into full screen mode, I did find one at 480KB (looks like it had been resized to 2048 pixels wide). Note that 2048 pixels wide is the resolution for iPad retina display. It is possible that FB stores a larger version on their servers for the future. I was just trying to be storage / cost conscious. I’ll boost back up to 1024 KB, but it will probably be difficult to bring it back down in the future. If our audience start uploading video, I guess that would be a whole other story :). In the end, I don’t really expect our users to be clicking through to see their images large. They use the photos more to decorate their topics, not to share single large images. But there are always different use cases. Thanks for indulging on this topic ☀ --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-compression-and-resizing/32614)._