Surely Der Is More To Avatar Sizes Dan Dis?

[CU_AMiGA]

x56h34 wrote:
To a possible CU_AMiGA:

I just like to know who I'm talking to when I'm posting in here. No disrecpect to you or the real CU_AMiGA, but it's impossible to tell at this point which one is real and which one is not. By reading the comments that you post, to tell you the truth, it just doesn't feel like it's the real CU_AMiGA that one is talking to. The wording and the style has radically changed, which again brings me to my question, which is...how do we know that you are the real one? Prove my doubts wrong please.

Honestly. I am the CU_AMiGA everyone knows one these boards. My posting style is the same. I i still help everyone out. I cannot think of any way to prove it. Sorry.

[CU_AMiGA]

Anyway. Please get back on topic. I don't want this topic to get locked like the others. If anyone has any doubts about me, then please PM me, not this thread. Anyhow, would it be possible to impliment these options for dialup/broadband users?

Regards,

[x56h34]

Alright. I'll keep my eye on you. We'll see. In 6 months, I may very well be convinced.

[kd7ota]

I am not sure how to impliment the thing to chose whether your on dialup or fast internet.  Wouldn't be a bad idea to specify sizes, but the downside I can find is that you would have to upload 2 different avatar sizes, and one would be for dialup, and the other for broadband.

And in order to know what connection  you have, you specify it on your user settings.  :-D

[Lemmink]

Well what do you need a bigger Avatarsize for anyway ?
I think it would be stange if the avatar would take more room then the actual posting.

[Karlos]

I don't mind the new size, although its scuppered me ever reusing any of the animated ones I made :-)

[CU_AMiGA]

Doesn't the BBC website have these sort of features. I really like there layout. Really basic.

[Karlos]

The BBC has plenty of developers to work on it. We have Wayne (and maybe a few others), his free time and a quirky content management system that seriously discourages modification of it's code.

Overall I'd say the site is cracking, moreso considering the tools.

@Wayne

I have written some image scaling code for php that might be useful (it also intelligently caches the resampled image on the server). It's yours if you want it.

[CU_AMiGA]

Yes i agreee. Wayne and CO. have done a crackign job with the forums. I didn't mean to sound ungrateful ro anything. Just an idea.

Sure, I can fix the problem.  I'll be more than happy to turn off avatar usage altogether.  That'll help everyone.

I will not however be wasting a lot of time with writing additional code for the current system just so you can have a larger avatar while dialup users don't see them.

Can't someone for once have a real problem to complain about?

:laughing:

[CU_AMiGA]

I just thought it would be a nice feature to have.

Don't take it personally or anything, I was just joking, as noted by the smiley.  It is a complete waste of time to dedicate the large amounts of time to creating such a useless feature.  Compared to a lot of sites, 90x90 is very, very generous.  We're already at the limit for bandwidth allowed for our account, so every little bit helps.

With contributions to the site slowly shrinking, the idea of buying either a larger account or moving to a larger dedicated server simply isn't realistic.  As such, I think we should all be thankful to do what we can...

Wayne

[sumner7]

Wayne wrote:
Compared to a lot of sites, 90x90 is very, very generous.

My arse it's generous! On other sites i'm registered on, the sizes are about 120 x 120.

[HopperJF]

Others allow 50x50 and if you can't get one that small then tough luck!

90x90 is adequate without making things too slow for the dialup users.

[X-ray]

@ Sumner

"...My arse it's generous! On other sites i'm registered on, the sizes are about 120 x 120..."

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I bet they don't let you have six dancing ponces in your signature though  ;-)

[odin]

sumner7 wrote:
My arse it's generous! On other sites i'm registered on, the sizes are about 120 x 120.

How about you stick to those sites then?