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Points: 7871 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 16:42
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
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 16:34
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I could really dig some larger avatars.  Since MovingPictures07 and I both have new albums this month, we talked about making our avatars our albums' artwork.  I did a trial run of my album's artwork and it just didn't look very good so small.


Nobody wants to see your album's artwork, don't worryTongueWink ...Seriously, you didn't tell me!Shocked
 
My album's artwork is a large photo of Alan White.  The title of the album is "Cacho Sucks!" 


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Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I could really dig some larger avatars.  Since MovingPictures07 and I both have new albums this month, we talked about making our avatars our albums' artwork.  I did a trial run of my album's artwork and it just didn't look very good so small.


Nobody wants to see your album's artwork, don't worryTongueWink ...Seriously, you didn't tell me!Shocked
 
My album's artwork is a large photo of Alan White.  The title of the album is "Cacho Sucks!" 
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays
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Points: 28427 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 16:03
yay from me.... cant imagine how limiting 64x64, especially making animated avatars is like jewelry work
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 15:30
They could be bigger, but 100x100 would be better.
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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.


Edited by Swan Song - December 30 2008 at 14:40
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I'm fine either way, the proposed size wouldn't bother me, but I'm also cool with the status quo.
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Large pictures. Very annoying. Sigs are bad enough already. Personally, I think that, in the department of avatars, less is more.
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 12:18
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I could really dig some larger avatars.  Since MovingPictures07 and I both have new albums this month, we talked about making our avatars our albums' artwork.  I did a trial run of my album's artwork and it just didn't look very good so small.


Nobody wants to see your album's artwork, don't worryTongueWink ...Seriously, you didn't tell me!Shocked
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 12:16
^I was just supposing, since there are reasons signatures can't be more than 200 words, or threads more of 200 pages, and considering all these preventions, still PA isn't working 100% perfect, so I wouldn't consider it a good call. But this is coming from a guy that doesn't know about internet pages, memory, etc, just using the facts.

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I could really dig some larger avatars.  Since MovingPictures07 and I both have new albums this month, we talked about making our avatars our albums' artwork.  I did a trial run of my album's artwork and it just didn't look very good so small.
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays
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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


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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 11:55
It also gets my vote, but I'm sure it will make PA run slower.
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Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 11:50
This gets my vote for my tired eyes.

I'd like to see them just to be able to enjoy some of the album artwork that some members use.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2008 at 08:40
Could we have larger avatars on the forum?

The current limitation is 64x64 pixels for any avatar. Increasing the limitation to 120x120 pixels the total size of the hosted avatars would increase in a negligible proportion. At least according to the calculations I was doing here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50480&PID=3090562#3090562

This is a visual representation of what I mean:

64x64 pixels:



120x120 pixels:
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