Pic/Avatar Size?
Pic/Avatar Size?
What kind of catastropy would it cause to raise the pic size limit to 10k?
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Nothing catastrophic, only the possibility that those on slower connections will experience 40 percent longer loads of avatars. Given that few people will want or desire 10k avatars, the load increase would likely be minimal.
That said, a 10k image that's 80x80 is likely unnecessarily large, even for animated .gifs, which I'm assuming the desired avatar is; most likely, optimization could bring it down to an allowable size.
That said, a 10k image that's 80x80 is likely unnecessarily large, even for animated .gifs, which I'm assuming the desired avatar is; most likely, optimization could bring it down to an allowable size.
For what it's worth, <a href="http://underworld93.com/phpbb/index.php">Underworld</a> allows an amazing 1256kb for avatar size, allowing me to have this image:
Which is, in fact, well /below/ the maximum allowed size. Personally, I think it'd be cool as hell if we allowed avatars of this resolution, but I've got broadband.
For reference, Bulldrek allows 6kb avatars. The image above is 160kb, about 27 times larger than we allow here. The maximum size allowed there is 1256kb, about eight times larger that the image above, about 209 times larger than we allow here.
Which is, in fact, well /below/ the maximum allowed size. Personally, I think it'd be cool as hell if we allowed avatars of this resolution, but I've got broadband.
For reference, Bulldrek allows 6kb avatars. The image above is 160kb, about 27 times larger than we allow here. The maximum size allowed there is 1256kb, about eight times larger that the image above, about 209 times larger than we allow here.
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And, thankfully, Underworld also allows you to turn off avatars. ;-)
I really don't see why we shouldn't bump the size limit up here. Unless I'm mistaken we're not running into bandwidth problems nor are any users currently complaining that the server is too slow, so it's probably safe - as you said, few people will likely use a larger avatar.
But something sane, like 10-15KB, not a meg. ;-)
I really don't see why we shouldn't bump the size limit up here. Unless I'm mistaken we're not running into bandwidth problems nor are any users currently complaining that the server is too slow, so it's probably safe - as you said, few people will likely use a larger avatar.
But something sane, like 10-15KB, not a meg. ;-)
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Bulldrek traffic is a minor blip on the server side, heck, 2meg avatars wouldn't matter there. I think we're still at 60x60 pixel wise (though it could be 80x80, who knows). Either way its not that big of a deal except for how it affects user load times, so if people want it bigger, sure :7 I'd only caution about going bigger pixel wise than 100x100 as that's about the limit before that table design starts looking way off.
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I would think, between [stripped], the ability to turn avatars off on any theme, and our self-policing, we could get away with some pretty liberal avatar sizes. I agree the dimensions should be kept reasonable - 100x100 sounds nice to me - to prevent them looking totally out-of-place in the layout; this layout is /not/ designed with avatars 200 x 200 in mind, and would look quite ridiculous [as Underworld sometimes does, now, with big avatars like mine].
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If we did allow animated avatars, would there be any way to make it so you could turn them off? Have them flagged as animated so you you could chose to have them turned off whilst keeping regular avatars on, a kind of half way house.
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You could let the flag change the way the <img> tag is written out, to include the loop attribute set to 1. [Or 0; not sure how that works.] That way, animated gifs would play, but not more than once, allowing your eyes and your processor some respite.
Barring that - and while it's a simple modification, we all know how long those take! - the only recourse would be begging jerks like me not to make eye-jangling videos for avatars.
Barring that - and while it's a simple modification, we all know how long those take! - the only recourse would be begging jerks like me not to make eye-jangling videos for avatars.
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Yeah. You only get things like flashing Ape Sex.3278 wrote:We do allow animated avatars. The ones we allow just aren't very <i>big</i>.FlakJacket wrote:If we did allow animated avatars...
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Can we have a tastefulness filter? We don't need The Next Big Thing coming back just to give us animated stupidity as an avatar...
But 100x100 and 20k sounds good.
But 100x100 and 20k sounds good.
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_Patience said: Ang, you are truly a font of varied and useful information.
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<Reika> What a glorious way to die.
<Jackal> What are you, Klingon?
<Reika> Worse, a paladin.
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IRC Fun:
<Reika> What a glorious way to die.
<Jackal> What are you, Klingon?
<Reika> Worse, a paladin.
<Jackal> We're all fucked.