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stormcrowley
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| The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:32 am Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| stormcrowley wrote: | | The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
Yes. This has been discussed before and the current plan is to stay at 80x80.
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stormcrowley
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| Bah, alright. What are the reasons for staying at 80x80, if you don't mind me asking? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| stormcrowley wrote: | | Bah, alright. What are the reasons for staying at 80x80, if you don't mind me asking? |
Primarily because screen real estate should be devoted to the message itself, rather than extraneous avatars.
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stormcrowley
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| Very well. I'll dust GIMP off and do some resizing, then. Thanks! |
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old school
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| stormcrowley wrote: | | The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
How about now?
edit: Take pity on us older users, with our hardening retinas. 
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pjp
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| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| klieber wrote: | | Yes. This has been discussed before and the current plan is to stay at 80x80. |
| klieber wrote: | | Primarily because screen real estate should be devoted to the message itself, rather than extraneous avatars. |
My vote is for 80x80 still.
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Oops, wanted to answer here the other day, too and forgot until i saw pjp's reply.
I think 80x80 should be enough, too, big avatars can become quite annoying.
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Just imagine something like a can of Königsberger Klopse in 100x100 Pixel, aweful 
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cokehabit
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80x80 is ok, i just wish the size could be more than 7kb. Why was it moved from 8kb to 7kb?
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pjp
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When was it 8kb? It has been 7kb for as long as I can remember.
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2 years ago? 3 years ago? It was a long time ago, thats all i remember
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| cokehabit wrote: | | 2 years ago? 3 years ago? It was a long time ago, thats all i remember |
Yes. When I joined the forums about 3 years ago I remember trying
to make sure my avatar size was 8kb also. (not that it really matters.  )
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used to be a limit of 14k combined for avatar and signature image. The
file and image size checks didn't really work until last summer.
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| kallamej wrote: | | There
used to be a limit of 14k combined for avatar and signature image. The
file and image size checks didn't really work until last summer. |
so we can have it back to 8kb?
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| Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: Re: Avatar Size |
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| old school wrote: | | stormcrowley wrote: | | The current restriction is 80x80 pixels. Would anyone have objections to increasing the size to 100x100? |
How about now?
edit: Take pity on us older users, with our hardening retinas. |
when your new glasses come through try googling for geriatric
presbyopia , I think you'll find it's the lens that hardens not the
retina!
Avatars are intended for a graphic of some character you wish to
use to represent yourself on the forum not for your granny's holiday
snaps or you favourite album cover.
you can actually do quite a bit with 80x80 in jpeg or gif. It seems a very good choice to me.
If you see someone trying to cram a group photo instead of an avatar please report the abuse. (no names mentioned). 
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