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| The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:32 am Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| stormcrowley wrote: | | The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
Yes. This has been discussed before and the current plan is to stay at 80x80.
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stormcrowley
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| Bah, alright. What are the reasons for staying at 80x80, if you don't mind me asking? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| stormcrowley wrote: | | Bah, alright. What are the reasons for staying at 80x80, if you don't mind me asking? |
Primarily because screen real estate should be devoted to the message itself, rather than extraneous avatars.
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stormcrowley
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| Very well. I'll dust GIMP off and do some resizing, then. Thanks! |
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Old School
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| stormcrowley wrote: | | The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
How about now?
edit: Take pity on us older users, with our hardening retinas. 
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| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| klieber wrote: | | Yes. This has been discussed before and the current plan is to stay at 80x80. |
| klieber wrote: | | Primarily because screen real estate should be devoted to the message itself, rather than extraneous avatars. |
My vote is for 80x80 still.
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amne
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Oops, wanted to answer here the other day, too and forgot until i saw pjp's reply.
I think 80x80 should be enough, too, big avatars can become quite annoying.
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Earthwings
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Just imagine something like a can of Königsberger Klopse in 100x100 Pixel, aweful 
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cokehabit
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| 80x80 is ok, i just wish the size could be more than 7kb. Why was it moved from 8kb to 7kb? |
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pjp
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When was it 8kb? It has been 7kb for as long as I can remember.
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| 2 years ago? 3 years ago? It was a long time ago, thats all i remember |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | 2 years ago? 3 years ago? It was a long time ago, thats all i remember |
Yes. When I joined the forums about 3 years ago I remember trying to make sure my avatar size was 8kb also. (not that it really matters.  ) |
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kallamej
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There used to be a limit of 14k combined for avatar and signature image. The file and image size checks didn't really work until last summer.
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cokehabit
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| kallamej wrote: | | There used to be a limit of 14k combined for avatar and signature image. The file and image size checks didn't really work until last summer. |
so we can have it back to 8kb? |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| old school wrote: | | stormcrowley wrote: | | The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
How about now?
edit: Take pity on us older users, with our hardening retinas. |
when your new glasses come through try googling for geriatric presbyopia , I think you'll find it's the lens that hardens not the retina!
Avatars are intended for a graphic of some character you wish to use to represent yourself on the forum not for your granny's holiday snaps or you favourite album cover.
you can actually do quite a bit with 80x80 in jpeg or gif. It seems a very good choice to me.
If you see someone trying to cram a group photo instead of an avatar please report the abuse. (no names mentioned). 
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amne
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Thanks for the examples, no_hope, we've just discussed it and decided that 80x80 still looks best.
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The dimensions (80x80) is perfect, what needs to be changed is the image size (MB) |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | The dimensions (80x80) is perfect, what needs to be changed is the image size (MB) |
mhh 80x80x4=25kb then? use jpg/png compression
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Think4UrS11 wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | The dimensions (80x80) is perfect, what needs to be changed is the image size (MB) |
mhh 80x80x4=25kb then? use jpg/png compression |
7kb is crap though. 15kb would be better. It used to be 8kb but they changed it about 2 years ago |
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Earthwings
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Everyone should just use dinosaurs as avatars. Despite their huge natural size, you can get an image size small enough to animate them within the 7kb limit
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ToeiRei
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This topic is funny somehow. Why are users never satisfied with what they got? There are discussion forums that do not allow avatars at all...
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amne
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Earthwings wrote: | | Everyone should just use dinosaurs as avatars. Despite their huge natural size, you can get an image size small enough to animate them within the 7kb limit |
Agreed. We should declare this week dinosaur week.
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| amne wrote: | | Earthwings wrote: | | Everyone should just use dinosaurs as avatars. Despite their huge natural size, you can get an image size small enough to animate them within the 7kb limit |
Agreed. We should declare this week dinosaur week. |
Agreed |
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