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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2009 at 17:11
Wha!

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uh... This'll take some getting used to.
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Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Ok -- i've change the fix width to 120px and unlimited height for avatar, please post comments
You should limit it to 120x120, unlimited anything on the internet is not a good idea.
 
Otherwise, thank you, I really like the improvement!
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2009 at 17:07
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It's still not big enough to be able to read my name on the cup.  Oh wait, no bother.  It's not there. Wink



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Great, now I can fit the whole wombat in my avatar! Hug

Somehow it looks even more mysterious than it used to. Cool


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Wow. This would take some getting used to... but I love being able to see how CLEAR the avatars are.
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Ok -- i've change the fix width to 120px and unlimited height for avatar, please post comments
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Let me get a hold of the matter here and I'll post my comments 
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He's not reading this forum section? Ermm
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2009 at 13:55
Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

So what's the official position on this? Smile


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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Well I have a crap computer that hates my guts. Sometimes it makes molasses going uphill in January seem like E=MC squared. If anything we should be worrying about making the site load faster.


Google Chrome. A much, much faster browser with a low footprint for slower computers.
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So what's the official position on this? Smile
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Well I have a crap computer that hates my guts. Sometimes it makes molasses going uphill in January seem like E=MC squared. If anything we should be worrying about making the site load faster.
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

It also gets my vote, but I'm sure it will make PA run slower.


How much slower? A page displayed on the PA forums has 20 posts (like this page for example: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=53654&PN=113). That means a maximum 20 different posters with different avatars; considering 4 KB for each different avatar, their total weigh is now 80 KB. If avatars would be 120x120 pixels (9 KB each), the total weigh could be around 180 KB. What kind of Internet Connection would make PA run slower because of 100 KB more for a page.

(This is only an example, on the page I linked there are only 13 different avatars unlike 20 in my hypothetical example).

Thanks for the support btw Smile


The kind that is connected on the server side, which has to deal with many, many requests. - sorry, what I wanted to say was that the internet connection of the end user has to be really primitive in order to have problems loading a page which is 100 KB "heavier" than before. I did not refer to the server.

Keep in mind that it is not only running the forums, but also the reviews database and all access to both. As someone wrote already, that is exactly the reason that M@X has limited signature sizes and recently also closed a whole load of old threads. - of course I am considering these aspects; this is why I made my proposition as a result of some calculations which can of course be irrelevant and which keep the changes at a very reasonable amplitude Smile

And more on topic: I'm probably not the only one here who isn't coming to the forum to study avatars. They're used mostly to help people recognise quickly who submitted a certain post mainly, and that happens in the blink of an eye. - agreed, I also consider this improvement as an improvement to the virtual communication made through forums, not something of artistic relevance


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Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

It also gets my vote, but I'm sure it will make PA run slower.


How much slower? A page displayed on the PA forums has 20 posts (like this page for example: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=53654&PN=113). That means a maximum 20 different posters with different avatars; considering 4 KB for each different avatar, their total weigh is now 80 KB. If avatars would be 120x120 pixels (9 KB each), the total weigh could be around 180 KB. What kind of Internet Connection would make PA run slower because of 100 KB more for a page.

(This is only an example, on the page I linked there are only 13 different avatars unlike 20 in my hypothetical example).

Thanks for the support btw Smile


The kind that is connected on the server side, which has to deal with many, many requests. Keep in mind that it is not only running the forums, but also the reviews database and all access to both. As someone wrote already, that is exactly the reason that M@X has limited signature sizes and recently also closed a whole load of old threads.

And more on topic: I'm probably not the only one here who isn't coming to the forum to study avatars. They're used mostly to help people recognise quickly who submitted a certain post mainly, and that happens in the blink of an eye.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 17:28
Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:

Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:

Large pictures. Very annoying. Sigs are bad enough already. Personally, I think that, in the department of avatars, less is more.


How large is 120x120 px? Or how annoying? An avatar this size can even fit the "Author" column as it is right now without stretching it at all.


About four times the size of the current avatars, and they annoy me plenty already LOL - No, it's only twice the size. You can see the 64x64 vs. 120x120 avatars in my initial post.

But don't mind me, I'm unreasonably grouchy. My thoughts are that increasing the avatar size to 120 x 120 probably won't fix the album artwork 'issue', - there is a certain, visible improvement; the comparison I made in the initial post is quite eloquent

and that it'll take it out of line with all the nice stars, titles, average name lengths, and so on. - there is enough unused space bellow the Location/Status/Post Number are to make the improvement have no bad effects over the page layout Smile
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Points: 8052 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 17:11
Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:

Large pictures. Very annoying. Sigs are bad enough already. Personally, I think that, in the department of avatars, less is more.


How large is 120x120 px? Or how annoying? An avatar this size can even fit the "Author" column as it is right now without stretching it at all.


About four times the size of the current avatars, and they annoy me plenty already LOL But don't mind me, I'm unreasonably grouchy. My thoughts are that increasing the avatar size to 120 x 120 probably won't fix the album artwork 'issue', and that it'll take it out of line with all the nice stars, titles, average name lengths, and so on.
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Points: 67407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 16:55
Either way is fine by me, even though I can't imagine a large wombat avatar being any cuter than a little wombat avatar.
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Points: 32530 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 16:52
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

Not long ago we got rid of of annoying big signatures Clap. 

I think the current size of avatars is enough. There are still lots of places "to enjoy albums' artwork". Wink
 
Point taken.  I'm not so certain I would want to see your avatar any larger.
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