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Kathryn16
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Joined: 23 May 2005
Posts: 646
Location: Bay Area - California
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 Mon May 22, 2006 7:11 pm Avatars |
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Hey why does the avatars have to be soo small? Just curious.
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Lord Borg
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Joined: 27 May 2003
Posts: 11214
Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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| Mon May 22, 2006 7:13 pm |
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Bandwith, some users are on Dial-up etc...
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Kathryn16
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Joined: 23 May 2005
Posts: 646
Location: Bay Area - California
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| Mon May 22, 2006 7:21 pm |
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OH! Ok well that makes sense...somewhat.
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Untitled
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 396
Location: abandoned
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| Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:16 pm |
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Couldn't you up the limit to 10KB? I have a damn hard time with 6KB.
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Kilgore
Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 86
Location: Sector 001
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| Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:20 pm |
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or 37K so I could use the picture of dear Lefler in civilian... just kidding.
Yeah I'd love them to be bigger to.
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Untitled
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 396
Location: abandoned
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| Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:42 pm |
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| Kilgore wrote: | | Yeah I'd love them to be bigger to. |
- Can't you up them just a little? I don't think 10KB is too much to ask.
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
Joined: 17 Oct 2004
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| Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:14 am |
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Multiply 6kb by how many users have avatars, then multiply 10kb by how many users have avatars and you'll have your answer I think 
6kb really isn't that difficult. Look at the site LiveJournal.com - they have the same restrictions and look at the stuff that comes out of their avatars. I've gotten rather addicted to making stuff work in those 100x100 px boxes 
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Lord Borg
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Joined: 27 May 2003
Posts: 11214
Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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| Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:02 pm |
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Last I knew, the STV size was 80X80, at 6kb or less. As mentioned above, look at the ammount of users that have AV's...
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
Joined: 31 Aug 2002
Posts: 19074
Location: Centre Bell
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| Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:09 pm |
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Unless Morphy just recently changed it, it's 100 x 100, less than 6kb. We do it to ensure that there is a relatively quick loading time for those members who, unfortunately, are still using dial up. It has been brought up before and everytime the suggestion to raise the limit has been turned down.
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Untitled
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 396
Location: abandoned
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| Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:37 pm |
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| Valathous wrote: | | Unless Morphy just recently changed it, it's 100 x 100, less than 6kb. We do it to ensure that there is a relatively quick loading time for those members who, unfortunately, are still using dial up. It has been brought up before and everytime the suggestion to raise the limit has been turned down. |
- What about deleted some of those tons of 'dead' threads? No Sig Banners and deleting the dead members.
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
Joined: 31 Aug 2002
Posts: 19074
Location: Centre Bell
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| Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:45 pm |
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Morphy says he prefers to have all old topics archived rather than deleting them. Personal preference, I suppose. We've brought up deleting some of the members who are months/years old with 0 posts, but it's never got around to happening yet; I may bring it up again. As for sig banners, we already have some restrictions on them, which can be found in STV rules. There are size restrictions (100x500 and a certain KB restriction) and usage restrictions (once per thread or every 250 posts in 1 thread).
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WeAz
Commodore
Joined: 03 Apr 2004
Posts: 1519
Location: Where you aren't
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| Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:04 am |
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Is there a difference between an animated avatar that 4kb, and a still thats 6?
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Lord Borg
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Joined: 27 May 2003
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Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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| Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:18 am |
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Yes, One is Animated, the other, isn't. Animation takes time for dial ups to load, no matter the size.
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CJ Cregg
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Joined: 05 Oct 2002
Posts: 1254
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| Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:20 am |
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A 6kb non animated and a 6kb animated takes EXACLY the same amount of time to load. Because there both the same size.
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Lord Borg
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Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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| Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:24 am |
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Interesting, as with my High-Speed Broadband, animated, no matter what size takes longer to load then stills. What ever, that dont matter, what matters is what the rules say. In this case, the rules have a specific size (80 x 80 or something like that) 6KB, and non animated.
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CJ Cregg
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Joined: 05 Oct 2002
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| Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:28 am |
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2 files of the same size will take exactly the same amount of time to download. That's a fact.
Most animations however are huge in size and will take longer to load.
I don't like animated images and i I'm glad the rules ban them.
I just thought I'd clear this up.
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
Joined: 31 Aug 2002
Posts: 19074
Location: Centre Bell
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| Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:28 am |
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| Lord Borg wrote: | | Interesting, as with my High-Speed Broadband, animated, no matter what size takes longer to load then stills. What ever, that dont matter, what matters is what the rules say. In this case, the rules have a specific size (80 x 80 or something like that) 6KB, and non animated. |
100 x 100
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Defiant
Fleet Admiral
Joined: 04 Jul 2001
Posts: 15946
Location: Oregon City, OR
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| Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:16 am |
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Im wanting to post an avatar of 1024x768. Care to raise the size limit for me? Thanks in advance.
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Kathryn16
Captain
Joined: 23 May 2005
Posts: 646
Location: Bay Area - California
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| Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:34 pm |
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Thats huge!! 100x100 doesn't seem much to work with though...
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Untitled
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 396
Location: abandoned
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| Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:48 pm |
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| Kathryn16 wrote: | | Thats huge!! 100x100 doesn't seem much to work with though... |
- If your making tons of avatars the smaller size is better. You can do a lot with a 100x100 picture plane.
| Defiant wrote: | | Im wanting to post an avatar of 1024x768. Care to raise the size limit for me? Thanks in advance. |
- I've asked for a little raise in size to 10kb from 6kb - and that an't happening. In fact I don't think I would know any forum that would allow an avatar that huge (what you asking). I can't even see a forum allowing a sig banner being that big.
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
Joined: 31 Aug 2002
Posts: 19074
Location: Centre Bell
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| Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:19 pm |
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Um, incase anyone was wondering, Defiant was joking. The size he requested is a mid range screen resolution...
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
Joined: 17 Oct 2004
Posts: 5335
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| Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:00 am |
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| Kathryn16 wrote: | | Thats huge!! 100x100 doesn't seem much to work with though... |
You can actually do a lot with it. It's a very effective palette.
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Lord Borg
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Joined: 27 May 2003
Posts: 11214
Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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| Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:08 am |
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Indeed, I was able to make a couple simple ones from scratch, with out even really trying, I know you can make complicated ones, I've seen people do it.
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WeAz
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Joined: 03 Apr 2004
Posts: 1519
Location: Where you aren't
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| Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:09 am |
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Yeah, true. But one thing...there is an option to block images in many browsers.
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
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Posts: 5335
Location: Hiding
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| Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:14 am |
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| WeAz wrote: | | Yeah, true. But one thing...there is an option to block images in many browsers. |
Some browsers allow you to block images from ads. Very nice feature
In terms of more complicated icons- here's an example:
I'd have to change it to .jpg to use it here, as .png's are larger files. But there is a lot you can do on the 100x100 canvas.
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