Is there no limit on how big avatars can be

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http://i.imgur.com/4OzBubd.gif

Because a 73megabyte gif for an avatar is ridiculous


 
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That's absurd, the admins should staep in against things like that.


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I DONT GIVE A SINGLE -blam!- MOTHER -blam!-ER ITS A MOTHER -blam!-ING FORUM, OH WOW, YOU HAVE THE WORD NINJA BELOW YOUR NAME, HOW MOTHER -blam!-ING COOL, NOT, YOUR ARE NOTHING TO ME BUT A BRAINWASHED PIECE OF SHIT BLOGGER, PEOPLE ONLY LIKE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE NINJA BELOW YOUR NAME, SO PLEASE PUNCH YOURAELF IN THE FACE AND STAB YOUR EYE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PIECE OF SHIT OF SOCIETY
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Oh shit, is it seriously that big? How did you even notice?


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Oh shit, is it seriously that big? How did you even notice?
>hover over avatar
>right click
>copy image location
>paste in url bar


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Turkey | Mythic Inconceivable!
 
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Well yeah, but that doesn't tell you the file size. It's a pretty sweet gif though. What's the issue?


 
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Hmm...
Yeah, this needs to be looked at. For now, just don't put any humongous images in as your avatar or they'll be removed.


 
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Well yeah, but that doesn't tell you the file size. It's a pretty sweet gif though. What's the issue?
large images (in terms of file size) take a lot of bandwidth

mainly, it slows down the page


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Well yeah, but that doesn't tell you the file size. It's a pretty sweet gif though. What's the issue?
It takes some members a long time to load thus lagging any thread that you post in.


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Resized to 130x130

The pixels ruin the smoothness. I'll make a smaller file tomorrow. Cheat, what file size do you consider acceptable?

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200x200 at 40 kilobytes should be plenty

or 150x150 at 30
Last Edit: July 13, 2015, 11:19:47 PM by Verbatim


 
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Hmm...

Resized to 130x130

The pixels ruin the smoothness. I'll make a smaller file tomorrow. Cheat, what file size do you consider acceptable?

And Septy,
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Anything over 120px is a waste, but please don't go over 500px by 500px


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30kb for a decent gif? Yeah, no. I took the image down and I'll work on it tomorrow.

Cheat, isn't your bandwidth only used for images hosted on this site? It's an imgur link, so I was under the impression every time it's seen here it's using Imgur's bandwidth.


 
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Hmm...
30kb for a decent gif? Yeah, no. I took the image down and I'll work on it tomorrow.

Cheat, isn't your bandwidth only used for images hosted on this site? It's an imgur link, so I was under the impression every time it's seen here it's using Imgur's bandwidth.
External images don't cost us bandwidth, but it's still kind of shitty to have a huge avatar, as it will take that much longer to render on a page.


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30kb for a decent gif? Yeah, no. I took the image down and I'll work on it tomorrow.

Cheat, isn't your bandwidth only used for images hosted on this site? It's an imgur link, so I was under the impression every time it's seen here it's using Imgur's bandwidth.
External images don't cost us bandwidth, but it's still kind of shitty to have a huge avatar, as it will take that much longer to render on a page.

Unless people here deliberately disable browser caching, it isn't loading every time, just once until the cache is cleared. But I didn't realize it was so massive and I completely understand why it's got to go. My bad.


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Can you guys implement a cap on the file size?


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
.gifs really are a terribly inefficient file type  and really anything over 50kb should be strongly discouraged.

I didn't even realize Turkey's avatar was a .gif until septy pointed it out because it loaded so slowly.


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The new file is about 1.4Mb, 120x 120. If you implement a smaller file size, I'll change it, but I've used larger gifs without complaint.