Just my two cents, but i think that the resolution regulation is good. It's a bit annoying that you can't provide the full-size picture to the people without another host, but it's also not nice when a +4000px wide picture takes up your entire monitor, takes long to load and probably adds an extra load to the servers too.

Sure, the best solution would be just resized previews... though i don't know how simple that'd be to implement.

Indeed, I do agree that it can be rather troublesome when people like myself upload the extremely large resolutions and it can take up a huge amount of screenspace. But I suppose a lot of the gripe comes with being complacent with most other sites offering various alternative methods to that issue, such as DA's 'download' option, or SoF'urry's full-view slider. Most of these sites display the initial image at a lower resolution and allow you to upscale it through some sort of option afterwards.

It really is just a minor inconvenience though; it just makes the whole process of making images in hi-res feel rather pointless, at least if you're solely posting stuff here. The problem with resizing too is that a lot of details that artist like myself work hard to incorporate into our larger images end up getting botched when they're shrunken down to half the original size, and I believe I've heard people complain about overall quality being affected before too.

You don't have to wait an hour to actually re-upload it, but for some images, the full-resolution changes won't take effect until AFTER an hour after its been uploaded. Before it was pretty much instant DX.

I just sent a note now, I apologize greatly for forgetting DX!

I have to agree to this on some point, I admit liking from Deviantart's system where the site also lets you bit decide in which size the "full sized" image is shown, cause I don't want to get TOO BIG image popping on my screen cause then I cant view it as whole, the big max size could at least show when image is chosen to be downloaded at least?

Yeah, that's what I mean. I'd like it if there was alternative method to viewing the images. But as I said before, it's not a BIG deal, just mostly a small inconvenience. XD

I have a 24 inch 1080p screen and I think the resolution limit is fine. 1280x1280 is a good maximum resolution for all screens. If you want to share a bigger version just upload it somewhere else and share the link.
That is actually a way better solution in my opinion, because it would serve two purposes. On the one hand you get to show people the full fine and on the other hand you always have a backup of the finished images if you use a service like Dropbox, Box or Google Drive :3

Also, I am a photographer. My camera spits out 16mp files, 4928x3264. I don't want to make people download a 10mb image file O_O Instead I shrink and resharpen my files in Photoshop. And again, I am perfectly happy with that resolution: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/14899111/
I only replaced the FA version with a bigger file when I uploaded very wide panoramas or something like that.

For photography, I agree that 1280x1280 is a fine resolution for most images a lot of the time. But unfortunately the problem is that photography is typically far more detailed (Fantastic image by the way.) than a lot of artwork, so regardless of image size it can maintain most of it's detail regardless of the downsize it gets. Of course, as you said, I COULD upload every image I intend to post with a separate link to the full-resolution image; but this can become increasingly tedious at times and I rather dislike having to make people open up new tabs every time they want to download the image.

Then there's also the issue where I typically tend to make 1920x1080 wallpapers of whatever high-quality image I upload, and having to upload that to FA, then re-upload that same file somewhere else with a provided link just adds to the frustration. As I said in the above response to JC75, it's really just a minor inconvenience for the most part, but it seems like that this should be a rather irrelevant issue by this day and age where every other art-dump site I visit has some alternative method to downloading/viewing the image in it's full form without having to resort to third-party sites again and again.

Plus most of my artwork never really exceeds 3-5MB in file size when it's displayed in full-resolution compared to photography which can typically be a lot higher.

I could understand if FA resized the images in order to reduce system load or some such, but the fact you're able to circumvent this by simply re-uploading the image renders it rather utterly pointless to begin with, along with it's flood protection (Which I can understand a lot more, because I remember visiting FA and having the entire recent submissions category being flooded with furcon photos daily.)

If you can't be arsed to remember about that, you could try uploading your picture elsewhere and just linking the full image in description, maybe? Somewhere like Imgur or a Dropbox?

See the above post.

While it does become tedious, wouldn't remembering to upload a better size become tedious too? There are programs for quick screenshot taking (Puush, for example) and I think there are also programs for uploading them directly to Imgur too. And Dropbox uploading is just.. put in a folder and copy the link.

But then there's still the issue of having to make people open up new link, yeah.

One word. Comics. O_o

I imagine it must hinder comic artists a lot XD? I don't view many or create many myself, so I'm not sure.

I mean.. Even if they do continue to throttle the upload size to a point, they should at least raise the limit.

1280 x 1280 may have been somewhat spacious 10 years ago, but not now..