Shoutbox

Surely now that 90% of people are using broadband internet, the limits on sizes of avatars and signatures should be changed a little bit.

70kb is too small for a signature, it should be at least 128kb. The limit shouldn't be on the filesize as much as they are on the dimensions of the signature image (460 x 96 is a nice size for a signature).

Ya but what about people with caps. Lets say everyone had a 128kb avatar and 10peope on a page with a 128kb avatart is 1mb you view 100 pages and thats 100mb gone on just avatars nothing else. and people with low caps wont be very happy `

* Nathan too would like this as well but you have to think about that too

Yeah, i want my other kof avatar back!

Then you click options, and turn off viewing users Signatures and avatars.

What Nathan said.... also a signature is a signature, not a big high quality photogallery or 2 page essay...

Most sigs that people make can be reduced a hell of a lot in both size (why do you need a 400x150 pixel big image to only put a name in it?) and filesize (using a better graphic format, reducing colors, etc) mostly even without any visible quality loss.

Oh well, i am on broadband, but believe me, on another forum, they dont regulate the sizes, it takes like a minute to get the full page, its dodgy.

That's why I said that maximum dimensions should be 450x96, that's a perfect size for a signature (that's a nice sized image with some text beneath) and the file size won't be too big.

But if you did want a quality image that is ~128kb, then that's okay too.

this was discussed awhile back trax, Search, plus i dont think there's any point , if you need a bigger Sig/Avatar you have to much time on ur hands to make a biger signature

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Originally posted by HSV
if you need a bigger Sig/Avatar you have to much time on ur hands to make a biger signature

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I know it was discussed a while back, but this is now... times have changed, and now the average person has at least 45kbps download speeds.

It's nothing to do with having too much time on your hands, it's to do with quality of images, nobody wants an image with a load of artifacts scattered around it (is it artifacts or antiques?).

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Originally posted by Nathan
Ya but what about people with caps. Lets say everyone had a 128kb avatar and 10peope on a page with a 128kb avatart is 1mb you view 100 pages and thats 100mb gone on just avatars nothing else. and people with low caps wont be very happy

* Nathan too would like this as well but you have to think about that too

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If 10 makes 1mb, then 100 would only make 10mb :/