Just an idea/suggestion

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:40 pm

Avatars can be a maximum of 10 KBs, and sigs can be a maximum of 75 KBs. The way I see it, we basically have 85 KBs to use. If both a user's avatar and their sig are at maximum size, when someone loads a page with a post from that user, that persons browser is having to load 85 KBs of image data for that user.

What if that person were to choose not to have a signature, and have an 85 KB avatar? They wouldn't be using any more loading time than if they had a 10k avi, and a 75k sig.

Basically, I'm wondering the admins might consider changing the rules to the following:

The combined file sizes of a user's avatar and signature cannot exceed 85KB (87040 bytes).

Seems logical to me

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:53 pm

NO MORE. This is why the Staff has been fretting about Allowing anims and such because that would inspire people to be creative and try to dream up new loopholes and stuff in the rules. If we allow it, people would want more, and more and more. Be Happy you even HAVE Avatars, let alone Animations. Files doesnt have Jack.

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:04 am

I agree with Cuda. He is right.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:57 am

Yet another thing to make things more complicated than they already were. 75KB is more than enough to use for a 500x120 sig. More than enough. If you want to debate this with me, send me an un-animated image and i'll send it back to you under 75KB. 75KB not enough for your animated image? Probably means it's annoying anyway.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:20 am

People like to bend rules. For example, we could say "your signatures don't need to be 500x120 anymore, but they must maintain a surface area of under 60,000 pixels." However, there would always be those people who would make signatures 1 pixel wide and 60,000 pixels high.

I think it's better to set limits for signatures and avatars separately; keep the same rules. If we were to combine the filesizes for both of them, that would be adding in another variable: Addition errors. People would add wrong and end up with a total greater than 85 KB. You can't forget that people make mistakes, and it's just better to keep it at "your filesize can't be higher than this number, period."

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:37 am

I don't think it has anything to do with animations, notice laser has none?
You bring an extremely good point laser.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:34 pm

multi-genre wrote:You bring an extremely good point laser.

No not really. I think we've established that...

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:12 pm

oh well