I hate to be making a new topic with how inactive I am here, but...
64x64 and 6KB or less. Is there any reason that these limits are so... er, almost ridiculously strict?
If there's a rant or appropriate thread that explains it, please direct me there. Search didn't turn up anything after 4 tries or so, so I figured I was okay to make a new thread about it.
One forum I post at, whose name I probably shouldn't mention here for its connection to fansub downloads, has a limit of 100x100 and 50 KB, with limits on sigs similar to PA. Another has a (weird) size limit of 130x220 and a total of 100 KB between the avatar and sig. Neither of them has any problems with people complaining about load times.
So... yeah. Anyone have answers for me?
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The dimension limit is, I would assume, an aesthetic issue. Because 64x64 is large enough to be significant, but small enough to not be obnoxious.
Edit - About two (almost three) years ago the dimension limit was 40x40.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if the limit was bigger. But yeah, 64x64 is done for courtesy and aesthetics and I'm fine with it.
(what does fireworks do?)
It's a poor man's photoshop that I like because it's integrated to work real nice with other Macromedia programs, like Flash and Dreamweaver.
I don't really believe that it'd be such a burden on 56k users to have higher limits, but I suppose that might be part of why I'm not an admin. I don't really care what's a burden on 56k users. I've had cable for 5 years now, and it really isn't much more expensive, especially considering what you get with it.
I have an avatar that I use on every other forum, that is 100x100 and 8KB. Tiny, by most standards of filesize. I have tried resizing it, and it looks like ass. Having no avatar on this forum is kind of like saying "HAY I R ASSHAT WHU NO UNDERSTANDS IMAGE HOSTINGS!!1" and thus removing nearly all credibility from your posts, so I would kind of like to have one. Making yourself seem more credible is about the only way to be more credible, on a forum, regardless of how artificial the means are.
But oh well, I'll just stick with it, I guess. Maybe someday I'll see an image at 64x64 that doesn't look like ass which I could use for an avatar.
No one would care if you had an 8k avatar (provided the avatar wasn't obnoxious).
The 100x100 is a problem though. If resizing it doesn't work, try cropping it.
Hell, my ava right now is 120x120.
Another thing to think about if you have big avatars and sigs, is the bandwidth they'll chew up. PA gets a lot of traffic, the forum gets a lot of lurkers, each of them taking a little more of your hosting bandwidth with every page view. Any time a picture heavy thread appears, you'll have the occasion image from someone's private site, which can go down within minutes, just from the number of views that 150kb or so image gets.
Oh well, I will keep a lookout for an option that doesn't fuxxor it, or a new image.
Small avs and sigs and frames therefor keep the acutal part of the forum where the meaningful text is bigger and better organized.
Don't worry about your epeen kainy it is a good size.
I host a podcast about movies.
Post your avatar in a high-traffic chat thread and ask people with mad photoshop skillz to re-size it for you.
I do this frequently and usually someone will fix whatever image within an hour or so.
Fireworks has more in common with Illustrator than Photoshop.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Just wanted to point out that despite its penetration, not everyone has access to broadband, and though it's not that expensive, for some people it might be the straw that broke the camel's back as far as bills and whatnot.
I don't care if everyone gets free T1 and bandwidth no longer becomes a problem for anyone, everywhere. I'll still kill whoever I have to in order to prevent more larger animated shit from cluttering things up. What's already provided is enough and allows people to be creative and have fun while also not resulting in forums that look like this.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
It makes me really glad for PA's limits.
edit: if you want your eyes violated, Nintendojo's forums will also do the trick.
....was there any substance to what they were posting? Or was it just a forum to show off your favorite wallpaper?
Sorry. I find big signitures/avatars to be annoying. I think 100x100 or less is good for an avatar, and sigs shouldn't exceed the width of the text area.
I have no sympathy for dail up users . . . if they wanna be dumb and use dial up then they can wait the half hour or so it takes to load a page that is a little more graphic intensive. That is not to say that i feel every one should have 500x500 avatars . . that's just asinine.i think a 100x100 limit is suitable. 64x64 does seem a little small but it's alright since my avatar seems to look fine.
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
You fucking moron.
Also your sig was too large, so I edited it.
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64x64 is enough
It used to be 50x50
Stop whining
Shut up and go away
But okay, I guess that's whining. :roll:
Issue semi-solved, thanks for those of you who responded helpfully.
Also, according to search, this sort of thing doesn't come up very often. Ever, that I could find, before I made the thread, although I'm sure that's hardly true.
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That's just awful. My first thought was "I guess these sigs aren't *that* big.
Then I flipped through a few more pages and realized just how fucking shitty 4 inch tall sigs in a thread full of one-line posts actually looks.