Is there a reason an image added to a story is so strongly compressed? The picture on my latest submission was 512 x 800 as suggested and a mighty 154k in size. Rendered on the page it is now 13k and practically unreadable.
An image is strongly recommended for a Micro. We already have the burden of the ridiculous format ratio and orientation to bear. Why force us to live with this, too? Images are regularly posted to the Gallery snake pit far larger in size and with indiscriminate orientation/format, but that's for the Fuck Me Tonight crowd so it's okay, right?
This, together with all the promises, promises, promises unfulfilled on the writer's side, make it very, very hard to bother submitting anymore. From what I have seen that has posted lately, I'm not alone among the more seasoned authors here. It is intensely frustrating.



