Flexmoney Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 I got this in a PM, please discuss... Hey.. anyway to stop profile pictures (whatever u call them) - from being so large?xxx's is 3.6MB - that seems littlele excessive. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 I think the settings in the admin panel only restrict the dimensions of the avatar (ie 200 x 200) but the size could be huge if its an animated .gif If there is a setting then I am in favor of a restriction to keep the download times reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 (edited) Bandwidth cost $$. BE Forums and .... me. Animated avatars cost excessive bandwith. People with animated avatars cost me money. I do not appreciate wasting money. Don't EVEN ask me what I think of people to stupid inconsiderate to downsize their giant photos before posting them..... Edited October 15, 2011 by Merlin Orr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centermass Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 So why allow avatars (of any type)? Why not limit the size a/o # of photos for classified ads? Pretty easy solutions w/o having to bitch how stupid you think people may be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 15, 2011 Author Share Posted October 15, 2011 I asked for a discussion, please keep it friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Norman Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Animated avatars could be banned. That would save a tremendous amount of bandwidth. Photos of products etc. are OK IF people posting them will post a thumbnail of sufficient size to see if the rest want to take the time to download. don't make the thumbnail too small in other words. I can understand the problem for people with less than stellar ISP service. I have a really crappy DSL at home, FIOS at work, difference is night and day. In this day and age I pity people on dial-up and even on an aircard, it could be brutal or worse, it could get you into exceeding the monthly allowances and costing money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I had a couple of animated avatars jerk my system around unnecessarily on occasion in the past. I could do without 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWFAN Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I dont mind the animated ones, but I had a avatar pic take 2 minutes to load yesterday. I dont have slow internet either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 We might be able to kill them animated ones... But, that might get them all? Some are fun and low band width, I think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krdshrk Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Slow avatar load? You guys have to realize: Uploaded avatars from your computer must be no larger than 20 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Smith Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 (edited) I have nothing against animated avatars, per-se. But there should be a reasonable size limit for avatars and photos and images, etc. Edited October 20, 2011 by Graham Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Slow avatar load? You guys have to realize: Uploaded avatars from your computer must be no larger than 20 KB The must isn't enforced.. there's avatars > 3MB out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Slow avatar load? You guys have to realize: Uploaded avatars from your computer must be no larger than 20 KB The must isn't enforced.. there's avatars > 3MB out there If you post a link to a post with one, we could check it out. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I'm pretty sure my old bouncy-dot animated avatar is tinier than most with pictures in them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Merricks Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Just looked through a thread and there was only a couple of posters that actually had and avatar visable. Was something changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Slow avatar load? You guys have to realize: Uploaded avatars from your computer must be no larger than 20 KB The one really big avatar, wasn't loaded to the forum, it wasa url linked to an outside gif. Brian's site didn't have the traffic, just all the forum viewers that have avatars enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 On the other hand, don'cha dare remove hitman's avatar...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLM Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Animated avatars cost excessive bandwidth. People with animated avatars cost me money. Animated avatars could be banned. That would save a tremendous amount of bandwidth. I had a couple of animated avatars jerk my system around unnecessarily on occasion in the past. I could do without 'em. Animation really has little to do with the size of the avatar. Mine is only 7.62 KB and was done that way specifically to fit under a 10 KB limit on computer forum I used to be on all the time. Several static pictures I checked were over 10 KB. And I found one over 16 KB without much effort. That's a static picture that is over twice the size of my animated one. Just an example, Jim's cat is 6.24 KB so it's only a tiny bit smaller than my animated hand and Sig Lady's "face" is 18.67 KB which makes it not quite 2 1/2 times LARGER than my animation. We might be able to kill them animated ones... Some are fun and low band width, I think? Yep, just because a picture has some animation in it doesn't make it big and just because it's a static doesn't make it small and bandwidth friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 On the other hand, don'cha dare remove hitman's avatar...! That one is just about the coolest one out there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Smith Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 On the other hand, don'cha dare remove hitman's avatar...! You mean the really cool looking 56K animated avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 22, 2011 Author Share Posted October 22, 2011 SLM....you'd think the nut would be tight by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 22, 2011 Author Share Posted October 22, 2011 So...what to do with the Avaturds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Tell 'em to downsize within the forum's parameters or sacrifice their avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 If you want to limit bandwidth to users.. eliminate the ability to use a url for their avatar.. so all avatars are loaded from the forum, and the size restriction can be enforced. There's probably far too many users, that oversize linked avatars would ever be completely stopped. And this probably hurts mobile users more, that actually have to pay for bandwidth... and people with slow connections (like satellite connections) 20k may be a little small... but what's small/large is going to differ by each person. 100K wouldn't bother me.. not sure where the limit is. The issue isn't going to come from animated gifs, but basically small movies and a 4MB jpeg could also just as easily be linked It's easy to turn off avatars at an individual level, but I match avatars with peoples posts faster than I can register the name.. This isn't the first time this has been discussed Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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