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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Statua on June 05, 2011, 11:09:47 PM

Title: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Statua on June 05, 2011, 11:09:47 PM: I've come across some GIF's which really bog down low quality browsers like the iPod's Safari browser. The reason for this bogging is length of the gif. Don't get me wrong, they're interesting but a 60 second GIF is a bit much.

I think we should restrict the maximum time of a gif to five seconds. Heres an example of a gif that fits the requirements:
(http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/incredibleinventionp1.gif)

Image wasn't showing, fixed it for you :)
~ Max
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Anzu on June 06, 2011, 12:59:30 AM: I think we should restrict sigs to a certain size, doesnt look good with oversized stuff saying your name.
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: OhDeaR on June 06, 2011, 03:54:57 AM: Quote from: Teh Caek on June 06, 2011, 12:59:30 AM
I think we should restrict sigs to a certain size, doesnt look good with oversized stuff saying your name.

or having 32782832789 quotes + name + gif which some people have (like me :>)
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Statua on June 06, 2011, 08:15:35 AM: Some communities have limits like 300x100 max picture size or 5 lines of text max.
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: JF on June 06, 2011, 02:07:00 PM: Quote from: Statua on June 06, 2011, 08:15:35 AM
Some communities have limits like 300x100 max picture size or 5 lines of text max.
I'm pretty sure we used to have size restrictions on the forum. I'm glad they're gone tbh because it was annoying trauling images to see if there was any you liked at the right size.

But like OhDear said, people should be stopped from having a million lines of quotes in thier sig.
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Statua on June 07, 2011, 10:36:00 AM: All I have in my sig is a broken table. I don't really see the point in a picture or something. A sig is a signature which is something that depicts you from everyone else in a thread. If you have tons of crap in your sig, you look like that crazy guy on the street with 50 bumper stickers and decals.

My point is, just make something simple. A decorated name is all the matters.
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Adam S on June 07, 2011, 11:03:05 AM: I use my ipod all the time and i get no issues with long .gif avatars...

And older low quality browsers? Your joking right? They can fuck off and upgrade to decent browsers(Thats what googles pushing to do) its really retarded to stay on IE6
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Statua on June 07, 2011, 02:55:25 PM: There was this one person here with a 100 second gif and I couldn't load any page he posted on. That's aside the point. The sig section of a persons post shouldn't be larger then the post itself...
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Meatwad on June 10, 2011, 11:19:53 AM: You can disable people's avatars and signatures in your forum account settings. Go to your account page, then click "modify profile" then click "look and layout" then disabled avatars and signatures.
Title: Re: GIF sigs and avatar restrictions
Post by: Statua on June 11, 2011, 06:25:59 PM: Avatars help me depict people from one another. Sigs are supposed to do that but people keep changing them.