I always wondered ...

Resident Lune · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:59 am Post subject: I always wondered ...

... is there any special reason that DDRFreak chooses to limit avatar size to 64x64? It always surprised me, because about 90% of all phpBB forums that I go to use the standard 100x100 avatar size.

I'm not complaining or anything. I just was wondering if there was any specific purpose behind the smaller than usual avatar sizes as compared to most other internet forums out there?

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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:51 am Post subject:

The DDRFreak admins set it so that that is the avatar size limit.
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Kilgamayan · Trick Member Joined: 04 May 2005 Location: lol internet

Something about not seeing a reason to need a bigger image.
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The Letter K · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject:

Possibly a bandwidth issue.
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

i like 64 by 64

DRREI has 100 by 100 and some people use it to the full extent and it tlooks gaddy as all hell
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Radix · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Location: çå£«

Agreementsd.

MeltyKiss · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

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Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

I was gonna say that, but you could also say it's a bandwidth issue in terms of overall pageload time. Larger avatars mean that it takes more bandwidth from the user's perspective to load the page.
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Sohcahtoa · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Portland, OR

I like the 64x64 limit on avatars. I've been to forums that allow up to 150x150, and its incredibly annoying to have that much of the screen taken up by a stupid picture.

What I DON'T like is the filesize limit. For my avatar, I'd really like to have had just a few more kilobytes allowed. As it is, my avatar file is really only 32x24, and the forum is resizing it to 64x64. I wish I could make it 64x64, but then the filesize is too big.
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Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

The avatars are resized because there's no way that we can selectively enforce size restrictions on avatars. If we just use HTML to force resizing, then nobody can ever break the forums layout (be it inadvertent or intentional).

And we did just recently bump up the restrictions on avatar filesize. Nobody says you have to have an animated avatar - it's perfectly reasonable for some minor animation. Remember - we don't set these limits for our own sake - we set them so that users on low bandwidth connections don't start to hate you for your...artisticness.
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