Allow user allocation of storage space

[rosefox]

Title
Allow user allocation of storage space

Short, concise description of the idea
Allow users to allocate their storage space.

Full description of the idea
Let users allocate LJ file storage space in ways that are appropriate to our use: X% to userpics, Y% to voice posts, Z% to uploaded media files.
An ordered list of benefits

• Less complaining from

Comments

[nakeisha]

If this were possible then yes please.

[charliemc]

+1

I love the idea!

[neitherday]

I've seen LiveJournal staff state many times that some uses of storage space place more load on the servers than others, especially userpics. An additional 5 MB of userpics is going to put a lot more strain on the servers than an additional 5 MB of voice posts.

[rosefox]

Then I'd love to see some sort of "exchange rate": for every 5MB of media storage space I trade in, I get 2MB of userpic space, or whatever. There should still be a way to make it work.

[rightxhere]

It'd be pretty cool if they'd let us link to our own icons hosted elsewhere, instead of them hosting them themselves (and straining the servers).

[neitherday]

That has been suggested before, however if the images are hosted off-site there would be no way to enforce formatting and size restrictions. 200 KB userpics aren't disallowed simply over server load concerns, they cause headaches for people with non-high speed internet connections.

Another problem with off-site userpics is reliability: Currently if LiveJournal's servers are running fine, all the userpics will load on a page. That won't be the case if each userpic is hosted by a separate off-site account and pages would look a mess for it. With people's image hosting accounts expiring and other images being removed to make room or by error, broken userpics would become the rule on many older pages.

[pauamma]

I like.

[mordyn4]

+1