Larger avatars?

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.

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


Edited by Swan Song - December 30 2008 at 14:36

^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.

...No problem!

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

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

yay from me.... cant imagine how limiting 64x64, especially making animated avatars is like jewelry work

Epignosis wrote: cacho wrote: 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 worry ...Seriously, you didn't tell me!   My album's artwork is a large photo of Alan White.  The title of the album is "Cacho Sucks!"

I hope it's Alan from Relayer, and not from Tales!! ....At least I'll gain some popularity with the title

NotAProghead wrote: Not long ago we got rid of of annoying big signatures .  I think the current size of avatars is enough. There are still lots of places "to enjoy albums' artwork".

Swan Song wrote: 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 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.

Swan Song wrote: 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

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.