We lost a lot of images on this site.

In the networking world, they employ “disaster recovery” techniques across the servers, disk striping, which shares data across multiple server boxes/hard drive arrays. Adding new data means the data needs to “propagate” across the array and that takes some time to finish.

In the meantime...go to John Wexler’s website, doubleddie.com and read the several articles there about die creation and the minting process, among others. It will jumpstart you into numismatics and here at Coin Talk as a new member...hope this helps...jmho...Spark

 

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Yeah, TIFF files are considerably bigger. I can imagine image hosting sites and the like would prefer the smaller JPEG files.

 

Or HEIC
I have to convert every photo from my phone to JPEG before I can post here.

Does it look like I know what a JPEG is?

 

Hey, you young squirts are supposed to know that stuff

 

I know what it is, but I don't know the darn difference between all the files. To me, and Hank Hill, it's just a picture