Now I fully expect to have a little controversy on this issue, but I think it's about time that the avatar resolution limit got increased to 100x100. The Width of the left column when posting is, I believe, hardcoded to more than that already, so it wouldn't change the formatting of the forum. The increase in image quality you get from making the jump from 64x64 to 100x100 is
significant, and the small amount of extra bandwidth wouldn't be a burden on the forum, but on the avatars' hosts.
Now, I appreciate that from a technical perspective I'm more than likely being naive here, and there's more than likely some technical (or other) reason that this hasn't already be changed. However, from my point of view, I'm struggling to see one.
Could somebody tell me why the avatars are being kept at 64x64 and, if there's no good reason, consider the posibility of upping it?
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Look, they're big enough for everyone to be able to tell each other apart without being a drain on my bandwidth (I don't care about yours ), and that makes them peachy keen as far as I'm concerned. Simple functionality, mmmm. Delicious. Giant avatars are stupid.
And its not like most of you don't go stomping all over the size limits on a regular basis anyway.
I have a low IQ, you see.
What!? The avatar and sig are holy places. You shouldn't be... creative or anything with them.
Why! Why is my adblock disabled!!111
Maybe it fell off a horse?
Hooray! Attention!
But honestly, there are those with avatars twice the size of my av, and sig combined. Those with power even. If/when the file size purge comes, I'll go back to normal static stuff. But until that point, I'm going to have fun with it. *shrug*
Oh, well, thank you then.
deni's post translates as "Aroduc's sig is so hideous that it is a good example of why the forum does not need sigs"
Awesome!
Attention.
Or whatever it is he's always talking about when telling the rest of us how much our images suck
I think I saw that form too. God that was scary. A one line "lol" post and then a 1024 x 768 FF7 wallpaper. 10 times on one page.
Half of you guys use that on PNGs when there's absolutely no reason to. Makes the forum look like ass in IE.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Stop using IE, retard. :P
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So are usernames. We should all go to being "Anonymous"
hey, it works well for-
Just throwing that out there.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
And that was completely unintentional illiteration.
And the forums are pratically unbearable on dialup already.
Also, people with huge sigs are usually from SE++. I believe every other single forum follows the 500x80 rule.
I have a few requests... but I'm still under the impression you're not ready for such things