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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
Too big or under the limit?
@ Neal I got the postal-mailz from you.   Thanks. |
Hilarious, and it doesn't affect me, but at 1MB, it probably slows things down for a lot of people. Especially if 10 other people in the thread have similar gifs: 10MB+ on each page view
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Originally Posted by HunterICX
Yes, size does matter.
while some might go perhaps 20% over the allowed limits I'm fine with that but let's not have it going out of hand so that the forum lay out starts to get screwed or when I have to abuse my mouse scroll just to get to the next member's post.
I think the current dimensions are perfect.
as for filesize leave it 200 - 300kb top.
1 Mb Gif files are uncalled for at while they won't bother me at home on my own PC but at work on a not so state of the art pc it does bother me as big animated gif files just lag the browser and makes it a pain to navigate a thread.
HunterICX
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Yeah, the vertical scroll does affect me. That's the reason for some kind of x pixels high limit, agreed.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
I have " two shoes that don't match"...? I assume that is an English proverb. But I do not know what it means, Neal.  I never used pics, only coloured text. I never got any pics working in signatures. I change colour when I changed the text, which I do often: whenever I remembered or stumbled over a new - or new old - quote that I like.
On the issue, there should be size limits. Since it is about scrolling a thread, it mostly matters regarding vertical dimension, and thus I think a sig, may it be graphic or text, should not be thicker than 3-4 lines of text. Many, if not all forums I monitor, have limits much tighter handled than over here.
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Lol, no, it's no proverb. Often my announcements will include some random nonsense about one of the notable forum members. Last time it was Sailor Steve.
Again, I agree with you on the verticle dimension.
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Originally Posted by flostt
I find it annoying if a signature occupies much more space than the actual mesage in the post.
If a single post covers half of your screen and I have to look for the message hidden somewhere above a large signature
(which might even contain animations), I tend to get so distracted that I don't really process what I'm reading.
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And regarding political sigs. 99.9% are fine, but that rule is in place for someone who abuses it, with hate speech or some Rush Limbaugh quotes.
One thing I want to stress: I personally do not want to be the sig police, and I am fine with letting things slide. But I do know that if we collectively go to extremes with sigs, it will really make reading threads a pain, so there has to be some limits, somewhere. I wanted to take the pulse and see how you felt about it.