Use of Animated Avatars on KG

Post by **Bone** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:43 pm

Okay as much as I love many of the animated avatars here on KG, most of them are WAY too large for use here.
Due to the fact we still have MANY dial-up users on KG, avatar sizes are limited to 128x128 pixels and 40KB in file size.
90% of the animated avatars currently on KG DO NOT fit these regulations.

Please be kind to the dial-up users on KG and make sure your avatar fits the allowed sizes. Loading large avatar sizes makes for unnessicarly long page load times.

If avatar sizes are not adhered to we will have to start pulling peoples avatars, disallow animated avatars, or not allowing offsite avatar hosting (in order to filter non regulation sizes from use). None of which we want to do, but will if we have to.

Thanks

Mercurygriffin · Post by **Mercurygriffin** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:48 pm

Just curious, Am I one of those with the sig?

Post by **Bone** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:12 am

Merc, you are fine

for those with sigs
Signatures should be no more than 75X468 pixels, with a file size no larger than 40KB.

If you have a question if your avatar or sig picture is within spec
right click your avatar or sig picture and select properties from the pull down menu (for PC users) or click and hold for pull down menu and select properties (for Mac users)
This will tell you both image dimensions as well as file size.

Thanks

Post by **DarkVader** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:30 am

And I've been complaining about oversize avatars for quite a while now. For some reason nobody listens, and I'm getting tired of it.

Junkie: Your avatar was 49K. You should know better. (note I say "was" 49K. It's zero now.

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Post by **DarkVader** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:33 am

Asher - yours was 81K.

Post by **DarkVader** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:42 am

ok, trashed more for karmakaze, The Lizard Princess...

I'm going away now. If your avatars and signatures aren't fixed SOON I'm going to make drastic changes in the way we handle avatars on here.

Post by **Arkady** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:57 am

Oh, lighten up Johnathan.

The moral of this story is that we put these rules in place for a reason. Not everyone has broadband and I think we forget how anoying waiting on a page to load graphics can be on 56K.

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:48 pm

DarkVader wrote:Junkie: Your avatar was 49K. You should know better. (note I say "was" 49K. It's zero now. )

you know i didnt even think to check. haha. ill adjust that.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:30 pm

The Lizard Princess · Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:54 pm

sorry about that, as soon as I started reading I was gonna change it but oh well Thanks though, and sorry again.