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There's a very good reason for that limitation - and there's a good way to work around it that we have there on purpose as well. The way vBulletin works when you upload an image to it the image is stored in the mysql database. This database is HUGE given the amount of data that we have on the forums and the rest of the site (several parts of the site run on mysql). The more data that is in there the more load is placed on mysql, the slower searches will go, database repairs take longer, etc.
The reader's rigs section on the other hand stores images as a file on the hard disk - not in the mysql database. Therefore those images put almost no additional load on the mysql server. I've made it very easy to be able to put an image from your photo album in the readers rigs section in a message which can be larger than 400x400 (and 122,800 bytes which is large enough for a pretty high quality image). Just bring up the photo you want to include and click on the "forum codes" link and you can cut and paste that text into a message. If you want the image to be larger than the default change the "width=1" to a higher number (up to 4). ie:
Here's an example of a picture out of my photo album and the related html code that would be put in a message (with the spaces removed after the < and before the > ):
I'm trying to do my best to make the best use of the resources we have available to us to have maximum performance and usability for you guys. Keeping large images out of the vBulletin database is a part of that.
I modified the reader's rigs software to now display the forum codes for the 4 different picture size options along with instructions on how to copy and paste them.
It's because of the size of the picture - yet another reason for limiting picture size. There's no way to get around that either, if someone posts a picture larger than the screen your on that's going to happen. I just changed it to a 640x480 image because that will fit on most peoples screens (width=2) - it can go out to 1024x768 though.