Wipe and put restrictions on profile pics

[Teitoku Ippan]

Since it was discovered that forum profile pics were causing the stupid lag for the forums I am suggesting these two things

1. Limit the height x width dimensions of profile pictures to something suitable like 200x200 or 230x230, so we don't have people using oversized images that have to be resized by the forums which has been causing the issues.

2. (Optional) Wipe everyone's profile picture to remove the lag so people can then put their profile pics back within the dimension size.

3. (Alternative with number 2) Remove the ability to use image urls as profile pics, keep the dimension restriction and add a file size restriction to images to further reduce lag.

It's really bothersome having to see each forum page take like 3-5 seconds to load within this past weak so I made these suggestions which can obviously be improved upon or discussed by everyone else.

EDIT: Thanks to smt for this

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/fXMuFl95N/http://www.catalyst-gaming.net

[Crap-Head]

With profile pics, you mean signature, right?

[smt]

With profile pics, you mean signature, right?

No, he means avatars, when you load the index.php the load time is being bogged down by using using massive images or gifs that take seconds to load (2 seconds is a lot for a webpage loading, and CG takes up to 8+ seconds)

[Somone77]

If it were up to me you wouldn't have signatures or avatars, they're stupid.

Since it's not up to me, I tried doing this once, only to find everyone hated it and demand it undone. It was.

So make up your minds and I might care.

[alaskan thunderfuck]

Disable signatures and see how that helps for now.

[Somone77]

Done.

Note: Your signatures are still there, they aren't gone. You didn't lose all your precious BBC code (yes people actually worry about this).

Though I should point out that the most time taken during the average page load is not images, it's the execution of the php file (index.php takes, on average, 3.2seconds to execute). This is something with SMF being terribly optimized and not utilizing caching libraries which would decrease load times drastically.

[smt]

I'm not sure why disabling signatures help when the main issue is loading the front page, which is the page that takes multiple seconds to load due to admin's avatars on the front page

[Teitoku Ippan]

Done.

Note: Your signatures are still there, they aren't gone. You didn't lose all your precious BBC code (yes people actually worry about this).

Though I should point out that the most time taken during the average page load is not images, it's the execution of the php file (index.php takes, on average, 3.2seconds to execute). This is something with SMF being terribly optimized and not utilizing caching libraries which would decrease load times drastically.

and yet nothing was solved in disabling signatures apart from the fact we have no signatures now, the insane load times still exist

[EmperorDisasster]

Done.

Note: Your signatures are still there, they aren't gone. You didn't lose all your precious BBC code (yes people actually worry about this).

Though I should point out that the most time taken during the average page load is not images, it's the execution of the php file (index.php takes, on average, 3.2seconds to execute). This is something with SMF being terribly optimized and not utilizing caching libraries which would decrease load times drastically.

and yet nothing was solved in disabling signatures apart from the fact we have no signatures now, the insane load times still exist

Are you sure? Cause the only time I'm having loading troubles now are when I'm actually posting, but when looking at posts it just goes like that.

[aeiou]

I don't have any problems at all

[smt]

It seems to change, sometimes I load the front page/forums front page in 2~ seconds sometimes it seems to take 8+ seconds

[aeiou]

I haven't had an issue with it forever, but I won't deny it's there

[Hardcore]

Its kinda funny because I never experience any slow loading, it takes maximum 2 seconds for mine to load and I'm located far away from the host if that makes any difference.

[smt]

It may be more related to the routing to EU, both Pingdom's american test locations get <2-4 seconds time (and that's maximum, site is usually displayed before that) while the one EU one is usually 6-8~ seconds

[Somone77]

Stop talking like you're web developers, k.

The pictures don't do shit to load times. They're cached, they take less than 200ms to load unless you've never seen it before.

The problem is that we have forum software loaded with bloat that gets executed on every page load, like I said before, the time spent is not downloading it's waiting for the webserver to return the result, ergo not the pictures.