Hi guys... heres a full overview of how these quotas work...
The default limit for the gallery is 1MB.
The default limit for the attachments is 1MB.
These are seperate entities - so your usage in the gallery does not affect your usage in attachments, and vice versa.
We admins have the ability to place people into other "groups" These groups can then be assigned different quotas on the gallery.
At the moment this is a manual process, though with some phpbb black magic, I am confident we should be able to automate this process based on post count.
We are hoping to increase the gallery space and attachment space for users who reach 350 posts, however as this takes some time to acheive, we could also look at changing the quotas in line with other post count "ranks".
Therefor there is the pottential to have an increase at 100, a further increase at 200 and again at the magic 350.
At the moment as I say this is a manual process, if someone runs out of room in either the gallery or attachments, post in the help section or PM an admin, and we should be able to adjust your quota if necessary.
Other options to try are reducing the resolution or size of images - i.e. there isnt any need for anyone to use 1600x1200 images in their gallery or attachments.
1mb does seem a little on the small side, so perhaps an increase to 1.5mb or 2mb for people over 100 posts could be looked at. It all depends on how many members we have, and how many use attachments. So we need to monitor this before any accross the board changes are made.
At the moment we could afford to give people much more than 1mb, however if we make the change, and then run out of space in the future due to a large number of users wishing to use their quota, we would need to cut back, which could mean a headache for those who have used the full ammount (deleting of pics etc etc)
Its on the "to do" list (which is rather long)