Avatar Size to 100x100px?

Crono5

I'm no scientist, but it looks like there's enough blank space in the box.

lolfighter

Bandwidth. Page length. Giant obnoxious flickering animated gifs.

Fog_cartoons

I can't even remember what my old avatar was, I don't really mind that much. As long as the forums stay up, then I'm fine

404NotFound

When the forum came back at first I could swear it said 90x90.

No big issue, though.

Monkfish

It was, because that's the default or something. And you know what? nobody was whining about pages looking out of whack or the forums loading slower...it was nice. You could have more detailed avatars without them looking squashed or horrible. But noooo...they had to put it back.

Merkaba

I like the avatars being small; large avatars are distracting.

TychoCelchuuu

Large avatars are an invitation for trouble! Like rock music or youth, it will only lead to unrest.

BlackMage

i'd petition for a reduction to 32x32

... or an 8x4 block of ANSI text

Talesin

The avatar size limit has been 64x64 since 2002. Just because the forum software upgrade <i>temporarily</i> returned the software settings to the default of 90x90 did not change the rule.

Besideswhich. The only reason we have avatars in the first place is so that people can visibly identify a post as belonging to an individual member. There's no need for a huge, detailed image there, and most can be conveyed aptly with a bit of creativity (or simply resizing down) in a 64x64 space, with a whole 22KB... same as for a (much larger) sig image. Though that may be reduced in the future.. after all, that's quite a lot of space for an avatar.

BlackMage

just imagine, a 100x100 image using a mere 4765B would look something like this:

<img src="http://blackmage.org/bbs/src/1163191733982.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

Talesin

We've had people with that kind of avatar in the past, BM. They're usually issued a warning. If they persist, they get a week to think it over. Fortunately we haven't had to make a usergroup without the right to have avatars. Yet.

BlackMage

here's the altimeter for this thread:

* <-- mittens
* <-- mage
* <-- joke in gif format
* <-- mayonaise
-
* <-- talesin

tl;dr: plz2b lolling. kthxbai.

briktal

This sounds like a good idea.
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pudgy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::gorge::" border="0" alt="pudgy.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Increase the emoticon limit too.

Talesin

Allow me to restate myself.

Not going to happen.

<!--coloro:red--><span style="color:red"><!--/coloro-->*LOCKED.*<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->