Okay, to be clear, everything I am saying in this post is, like, clinical. Not trying to sound cynical or sarcastic or whatever at any point, legitimately asking questions from my perspective so this can be planned to be done "right".
Also, I'm not really talking about the upcoming Xenogears LP, which is primarily based on video, but will
involve pictures. This is more thinking of my eventual next screenshot LP.
So you can still fish out my Xenosaga LP on the old forum, but it's also on gogglebob.com . Not knowing how linking with the old forum data works here, I'll just link to the gogglebob.com link I am talking about:
Xenosaga Episode 2: Sidequest Roundup. But do not click that link if you're on dial-up, but if memory serves, this was one of the longest single "chapters" in that LP, so it works as the example. It is XS Episode 2: Chapter 11, if you want to look at the old forum post notation. Looking at it on the old forum, that "chapter" was 11 parts on its own. It was only separated for the purpose of supporting the 25 picture limit per post, so that "chapter" contains a maximum of 275 pngs/gifs, and no less than 251. Again, that was one of the most intensive chapters in the LP (it covers EVERY sidequest in XS2), but there wasn't much room for "editing down" pictures there. I hate clipping pictures out of video for LPs. I think it is the worst part. If I could make it less pictures, I would, but, dammit, the public deserves to see Shion talk to a bunny rabbit.
So, that said, what would be the best way to post a "chapter" that contains 275 images on the new forum? It can be separated into multiple posts, but that is all going to load when someone accesses the message board "page" anyway. Mind you, I am thinking of how I use the forum here, if people more commonly access individual posts, or individual posts are loaded across the forum when you're just looking at some other post, whatever happens there, I'm not aware of it. I am also thinking within the parameters of how the old messageboard "worked" in this case, so if there's a better way, I would like to learn about it.
Again, Xenogears isn't going to be that image intensive, but if a post does get... unwieldly... due to visual aids, I don't want to bump up against some "Goggle Bob broke the forum" issue because I wanted to do a deep dive on Fei's animation frames. I like this place, I want to properly accommodate as many people as possible.