Can we do bigger avatars?

SilverLexus

SilverLexus

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I'm wondering if we could change the forum to include larger avatars. It's awefully hard to create one under the current size guidelines...



Is this a reasonable request or suggestion?
 
I'm personally unsure. David or PrinzII would know about that kind of stuff better than me. If it's a possibility, it can be a consideration during the forum upgrade. It is coming up soon.
 
One of the boards I go to allows 150 x 150 sized avatars. Of course, that site also runs 5 servers with 8 gigs of memory!
 
I don't like larger avatars... Some of us are still running dialup :( I know I could just block all avatars, but those pictures are how I know who's who. Having to look at the names would suck :(
 
Neothin said:
I don't like larger avatars... Some of us are still running dialup :( I know I could just block all avatars, but those pictures are how I know who's who. Having to look at the names would suck :(
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If you can get broadband in your area, it is worth the cost over dial-up. On dial-up, I could download videos at around 3.75kb/sec. On a 6 mbps broadband connection, I get stuff at around 780kb/sec, which is around 200 times faster. Sure it is $42 vs $19 but time is money, right?



BTW, if you download the Opera browser, it loads pages more quickly.
 
One of the best things about this site is how the sigs and avatars are kept in check. Sometimes when other car forums are linked here I am just overwhelmed with what seems like banner ads that I then realize are sigs and avatars. Leave it as it is.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
One of the best things about this site is how the sigs and avatars are kept in check. Sometimes when other car forums are linked here I am just overwhelmed with what seems like banner ads that I then realize are sigs and avatars. Leave it as it is.
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I concur....
 
Setec Astronomy said:
One of the best things about this site is how the sigs and avatars are kept in check. Sometimes when other car forums are linked here I am just overwhelmed with what seems like banner ads that I then realize are sigs and avatars. Leave it as it is.
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Exactly my sentiments
 
Super said:
I have 56k to cheap for faster connection would like to see faster pages
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Opera browser will be your friend. Even as fast as my broadband connection is, I notice a big difference between how quicky pages load in Opera vs Internet Explorer.
 
A bit bigger would be better - I simply can't make the avatar I use on all other forums 7.6k or less. 10/11k would be perfect and I can't imagine it would add that much to page loading speeds.



Signatures should definitely be kept text only though.



Ben
 
One of the best things about this site is how the sigs and avatars are kept in check.
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I agree with you on sigs but not avatars. I'm talking here about just doing 150x150, not something huge. The problem is the limit on filesize is really small. Doing a slight increase on both would hardly affect bandwidth.



I have the same issue with Ben. I can't use my normal sig with a filesize below 14K.
 
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