Astro-image of the day poll

[mckitterick]

In my most recent "Astro-image of the day" post about Mars, I used a 600-pixel-wide image instead of 500, as I've used for months. This makes a larger, prettier image, but might mess up people's LJ Friends view. On the other hand, people might like even bigger images! So a poll:
[Poll #1101676]
To help you decide on your favorite image width, below are a variety of examples of this same image in different sizes.

500 pixels (my usual size for these posts):


600 pixels (the size I used today):


800 pixels:


1000 pixels:

Images courtesy of NASA.

Thanks for your feedback!
Chris

Comments

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

I have my LJ set so all images are behind a cut, just for this reason. So it really doesn't matter to me.

I think it's really funny that you have the options:

1. The universe is a beautiful wonderful thing and I love to see it!
2. I hate the universe and think that anything associated with it should go behind a cut.

When most people seem to be of the opinion that they think the images are beautiful, but want them behind a cut.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

"Most" is currently half....

I, for one, am irritated about having to click to see behind a cut and usually don't do so; therefore, I didn't want to be one of those bloggers who forces people to click to see a photo. That's why I've been using 500 pixel-width, because that's the cutoff for people who use narrow LJ formats.

Hm, perhaps the question is unnecessary: If it's an option to set LJ to show images behind a cut, I don't need to change anything, because those who want an image behind a cut probably do it themselves!

[matgb]

I have placeholders on for most images as I prefer to click to see them—holdover from my dial up days but I'm still on a weird wireless most of the time.

Having said that, there is a plugin or option that will pull out the first image behind cuts if you want them to be, snapesbabe uses it, confuses me completely when I'm on her machine but it's good.

It's very much a YMMV thing, that's why I've clicked don't care, placeholdes do the job for me.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

With all due respect, I don't want all images behind cuts - it's only people who post images (or several) every day that I do.