Author | Comment |
twin_swords Marine
Posted: 20 Oct 2007 11:54 GMT Total Posts: 29 | my avatar is supposed to be an animated .GIF, but the site only took one frame of it. what happend?
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Barrett Administrator
Posted: 20 Oct 2007 11:55 GMT Total Posts: 1676 | Your avatar is 1MB in size. Please choose a different one.
--- -Barrett A |
twin_swords Marine
Posted: 20 Oct 2007 12:04 GMT Total Posts: 29 | that is the problem, in my pictures it is 2.80 MB. and the site says the limit is 4MB. |
Barrett Administrator
Posted: 20 Oct 2007 13:53 GMT Total Posts: 1676 | yes, the limit is 4MB, but that's just to prevent upload-attacks on the website. realistically the limit should be 200KB for avatars. (think about it.. on some forum pages you download 10-15 different avatars... if everyone had an avatar like you, that would be 20MB of images just to view a forum page)
--- -Barrett A |
twin_swords Marine
Posted: 20 Oct 2007 14:57 GMT Total Posts: 29 | oh, makes sense, i guess |
tifreak8x Administrator
Posted: 22 Oct 2007 07:06 GMT Total Posts: 419 | And then of course you have users like me that are on dialup, we would never be able to see said pages. Well, maybe not never, but it would probably take around 3 hours to load the page. T'would not be fun.
--- Bringing you Pokemon, for your calculator. |
twin_swords Marine
Posted: 23 Oct 2007 19:26 GMT Total Posts: 29 | yah, i know the pain. |
ryantmer Wraith
Posted: 24 Oct 2007 06:36 GMT Total Posts: 692 | tifreak: Was on a forum once where someone had posted about 15 full-size screenshots of Crysis... thread was about 22MB to load. Ho. Ly. Crap. |
twin_swords Marine
Posted: 24 Oct 2007 13:59 GMT Total Posts: 29 | dial up sucks |
Vectris Ultralisk
Posted: 24 Oct 2007 16:11 GMT Total Posts: 375 | well when i had dialup the .gif animated avators worked fairly well |
1337h4kor Wraith
Posted: 25 Oct 2007 00:45 GMT Total Posts: 612 | So basically the .gif avatars look so poor because I'm on Dial-Up?
--- I wish i could swim in the sea of probabilty but once during my life. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 25 Oct 2007 17:32 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | No, your connection speed has nothing to do with the quality of a picture. Connection speed only affects how fast/slow you can download things. If a picture looks bad, it's because it was badly made. |
Hydraliskisback Wraith
Posted: 25 Oct 2007 19:48 GMT Total Posts: 583 | or .gifs just look bad. 2 for 2
then again LiK used to have a .gif that looked fine. the new uploader, maybe?
--- Iff Hydralisk has posted the above, the above is stupid. |