Avatar file size

[EloTheMan]

As many know there is a limit to how much space an avatar can use here, its not a problem if you have a PNG or JPG file for you avatar but if you want a GIF the options becomes very limited with only 256kb.

Does hive have room for increasing the file size for GIFs? And if so can you please increase it?

 

[Skycraft]

The file size is perfectly fine, no need for it to be any bigger.
Find a different .GIF avatar instead or optimize the image size.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Augmenting the limit would slow certain pages down because of the gif avatars, so I don't think the limit should be raised really.

Just resize your gif.

 

[EloTheMan]

Augmenting the limit would slow certain pages down because of the gif avatars, so I don't think the limit should be raised really.

Just resize your gif.

Its more a matter of the number of animations you have and not the number of colors or pixels. Slower loading speed is a pretty good reason to not increase it however I see a lot of users with signatures that have larger images or GIF files, the size of those easily exceeds 256kb.

If it were increased to 512kb for example it shouldn't affect the site so much as I think most users wouldn't take advantage of it because I see more people with a normal avatar than a GIF (also some users who doesn't have any avatar or a signature image).


Anyhow, I'm not gonna nag about this, a size increase would affect people with a bad internet connection and there are a few here on Hive so. :/

 

[Magtheridon96]

We're doing fine at the moment.
If this 'upgrade' is going to affect a bunch of people (negatively of course) without really doing anything for the site, then it's a bad idea :/

edit
384KB seems decent though.
If someone isn't having problems with 256KB at all, then anything slightly higher couldn't hurt.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

I'm for increasing the limit to 2MB. Hardly anyone would use that size, so it wouldn't make a difference if someone is casually using that size. The argument overloading is the same as the argument putting an almost movie on your sig.

 

[Magtheridon96]

Wait- ...
I just realized that most of this stuff gets cached ;O

Increasing it to 1MB shouldn't be a problem ^.^

 

[Dr Super Good]

There is no need to increase it and people have complained we are image heavy enough as it is.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

[reaction=http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxco0uKBXp1qbezm8o1_500.png]People freaked out when the reaction tags came out, siting it is a waste of space and time, it makes the site stupid and that it is useless. then someone complained the signature size should be changed to something like, oh i dont know, how warcraftunlimited has theirs. unlimited. have you seen their forums?

just deal with it. mkay?[/reaction]

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

^ Eh SC2Mapster allows 2+ MB and is better. Sigs r the same, even with my fairly fast net, I got a slow ostrich skiing sig that someone used load slowly while all the rest was running fine with no delay. But how else will I use the full-animation ponies :/

 

[Skycraft]

Find something else or optimize the image, it's that simple Eimtr.

 

[Ralle]

2 MB for a picture is extreme.

 

[GhostWolf]

I don't get why people even want to put random images and animations in these so called signatures and avatars.

Useless things that look bad in almost every case.

Imagine if every comment would take as many lines as the comment takes.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Find something else or optimize the image, it's that simple Eimtr.

I know, what you see is cut and optimized to maximum without making it look like crap. @Ralle Extreme avatar is the same as extreme sig, so whether you overload the avatars or sigs doesnt matter, right? But I dont care, I was only stating my support for the suggestion

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

we really dont have to start looking like this, do we?

 

[EloTheMan]

This is about bytes and not pixels. The avatar has a limit of 100*100 pixels and 256 kb while the signature only got a pixel size limit (as far as I have tested it) and no file size limit. I have only seen a couple of users who who uses that signature advantage and I am pretty sure it will be the same with this.

we really dont have to start looking like this, do we?
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^ I agree that it is to much, and its very annoying to read through threads with all those images blocking ½ the page. However this would not change much as the 100*100 limit will still remain.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

you use what you are given, not increase the limit on someone's vague desire to have a bigger filesize gif

 

[GhostWolf]

On the opposite, I would like to have a global vB option to block every single signature on any vB site.

Ah, I see that option is there already. At least vB did one thing right.

Would be better if they'd use some obvious HTML tag that would then be able to just be disabled by browesers, though.
Then again, that means people working together, and we know how that works out (it doesn't).

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

you use what you are given, not increase the limit on someone's vague desire to have a bigger filesize gif

dat principle...