Bigger Avatars

[Luda]

Originally Posted by cabal49

what looks better?


remember my deadpool avatar? Probably not cause you couldn't tell what it was. Also want animated avatars.

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[Loriel]

Originally Posted by CABAL49

What looks better?

Maybe you should get a non-****ty avatar instead of resizing something.

[Demisis_P2P]

I want to embed a youtube video in my avatar, please get to it.

[coreys]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

I want to embed a youtube video in my avatar, please get to it.

I second this motion.

[CABAL49]

Originally Posted by Loriel

Maybe you should get a non-****ty avatar instead of resizing something.

The might of CABAL will crush you. Since he is what I named my account after, I'd advise you to keep your *****-mouth shut.

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by CABAL49

What looks better?


Remember my Deadpool avatar? Probably not cause you couldn't tell what it was. Also want animated avatars.

The bigger one looks slightly better, but it is also animated, which I hope they dont enable, unless they put limitations on what is permitted.

[Door]

God Darlene you are such a stodgy *****

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

The bigger one looks slightly better, but it is also animated, which I hope they dont enable, unless they put limitations on what is permitted.

Like... I dunno, file size limitations? Poorly made static avatars with high color count and poor compression can be way larger to download than a most animated images, all that is needed is a reasonable file-size limit.

[Dnegel]

I find your avatar funny Dusty, it got 5 colors. :3

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

The bigger one looks slightly better, but it is also animated, which I hope they dont enable, unless they put limitations on what is permitted.

I have to agree on this. A limit is needful. It's already sometimes annoying when you open a thread with lots of big images or a big (and sometimes also bugging gif).
I think a commensurate solution would be size limit 100x100 px and a data size of 40 KB (animated) would be ok.

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by Sam

I have to agree on this. A limit is needful. It's already sometimes annoying when you open a thread with lots of big images or a big (and sometimes also bugging gif).
I think a commensurate solution would be size limit 100x100 px and a data size of 40 KB (animated) would be ok.

I also dont think crazy flashy stuff should be allowed either. Not only is it annoying to see that while trying to read a post, it could be harmful for someone who has epilepsy...other than that, I wouldn't mind animation, but I guess that isn't really what this thread is about.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

I also dont think crazy flashy stuff should be allowed either. Not only is it annoying to see that while trying to read a post, it could be harmful for someone who has epilepsy...

Nobody has "crazy flashy" signatures, so I can't imagine this being a problem.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

I also dont think crazy flashy stuff should be allowed either. Not only is it annoying to see that while trying to read a post, it could be harmful for someone who has epilepsy.

Users can choose in their User CP whether or not they want signatures, and avatars displayed in postbit.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by Sam

I have to agree on this. A limit is needful. It's already sometimes annoying when you open a thread with lots of big images or a big (and sometimes also bugging gif).
I think a commensurate solution would be size limit 100x100 px and a data size of 40 KB (animated) would be ok.

CABAL's simple eye glowing avatar is 11 frames. That's 11 100x100 images in a single .gif container.
If you make the file size limit too small then people will only be able to have one or two frames, at which point flashy avatars are harder to avoid.

If the issue here is distracting avatars and not the download time of images with more frames, then just make a rule against avatars that flash bright colors.
If the actual data/speed is the issue (I'm sure 95% of the people here use broadband/cable internet anyway) then people can use browser plugins like Adblock to block the avatar images.

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

I also dont think crazy flashy stuff should be allowed either. Not only is it annoying to see that while trying to read a post, it could be harmful for someone who has epilepsy...other than that, I wouldn't mind animation, but I guess that isn't really what this thread is about.

If you happen to use a reasonably recent version of firefox, you can go to about:config and search for the image.animation_mode key and set it to none and then no images will be flashy and crazy anymore.