Avatar on the forum

kgdrenefort · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:33 am Post subject: Avatar on the forum

Hello,

Avatar are limited to 80×80 and 7ko.

Don’t you think it’s kind low regarding we are in 2024 with way stronger bandwidth ?

These value are from 2000, probably, but maybe that would be nice to increase allowed weight. Had to export N times in jpeg before it was less than the 7ko limitation.

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rab0171610 · Guru Joined: 24 Dec 2022 Posts: 300

The concept of avatars seems very 2000 to me. I vote we just do away with avatars. Unique usernames only.

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: Germany

as long as the update to a newer forum version isn't done, the limitation exists.

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It is not as easy as I've said it. Don't be that naive :-)

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kgdrenefort · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:07 am Post subject:

Hello,

I understand these point of view.

Still, 7Kb for an avatar is quite small, but I won’t push a forum upgrade for that purpose :).

Was just curious about it.

Thanks.

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:55 am Post subject:

kgdrenefort,

The forum upgrade has been in the pipe for several years.
Maybe when it happens. :)
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

One advantage of their current x,y dimension is that they don't consume an obnoxious amount of screen space. I could have a 100" monitor and I still wouldn't want avatars to be much bigger than they are. As for bandwidth, wasting it doesn't produce a better result. I'm looking at you, modern web.
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myga · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2023 Posts: 103

We know that Gentoo folks are following the 'if it works, don't touch it" MO, but I think it's time to let go of the 2000s and switch to something more modern. XenForo offers a great service and I only know about this org through FreeBSD forums. It looks simple, neat, modern and easily customizable .
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e8root · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2024 Posts: 73

7KB size seems completely arbitrary but enough to fit 80x80 GIF... which won't look very good if you use scaling but I guess for what avatars are used for its enough. Its not like purpose of this forum is to pixel-peep avatars.

The only issue Gentoo forum has in mobile devices.
Probably not the biggest issue given its forum for desktop operating system but if anything some layout tweaks would be useful to make it look more reasonable on mobile devices.

I would be against switching to completely different platform because of that. I like BhpBB and always liked it and its always nice to still being able to use it.
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21678

A newer iteration of phpBB was already picked a while ago as the next step. The problem, as with all volunteer projects, is getting enough contiguous time from the right people to work on it. Not everyone who has privileged accounts on the forum has the Linux level privileges to do the required work, and some of the people who have the privileges may not have the expertise. In some cases, it may require not just contiguous time from one expert, but concurrent time from multiple people to work on it.