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LostSoul View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

I don't know if its because I'm new here but the the size requirements for the avatar are pretty steep. 100 x 400 and under 74kb or something like that. I don't really mind the size part but the dimensions are really hard to please. My avatar is oriented to be more wider than lengthy but I had to crop it down a bunch. Do you think you can raise the width dimension to be like 400?

Richma View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

it's 130x400 not 100x400 Laughing

ivanhoeGT View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

and less than 78 kb

Richma View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

Here is an avatar for you if you want him

ivanhoeGT View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

Richma wrote : Here is an avatar for you if you want him


*laughing out loud*

Richma View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

what is wrong?

LostSoul View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

why are people obsessed with length and not width Wink

VeGoku View user's profile Send private message

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LostSoul wrote : why are people obsessed with length and not width Wink


because it looks cooler.. " Wink "

Shenku RiO Incarnate View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Sunday, November 13, 2011

The reason for the restriction to such a small image size is two-fold.

First, because smaller resolution avatar images don't break the layout of the website when you make a post, where as larger images would. A wider than current avatar, for example, would shove your actual post over to the right, and potentially off-screen if it's big enough, thus breaking the forum's standard layout and requiring you to scroll left and right in addition to up and down...

And second, to limit bandwidth usage/load times for each web page. Large images require more time to load, and if there were no limits and everyone had avatars that were like 5 megabytes each, a single page on the forums could take five minutes to load or longer depending on how slow your internet connection is.

And no, it's not because you're new, everyone is subject to these restrictions.

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