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 Avatar Workaround 
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The old workaround of using an external server to host large avatars is no longer valid.
The avatar that I have now is 700 kbs.
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And yet, we're only allowed 40.
The only reason I was able to get this avatar on here was because we could simply image-link to the other server rather then have it be on this one at all.
Now it's here or nowhere.
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Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:37 pm
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Wait. So, you're...complaining, to the forum, that the loophole that was probably deliberately removed...was removed.

See the point of a filesize limit on avatars is to cut down on page loading times. If a workaround to that stops working, it's not something you complain about.


Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:09 pm
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Grif wrote:
See the point of a filesize limit on avatars is to cut down on page loading times. If a workaround to that stops working, it's not something you complain about.

I thought the point was to save on server bandwidth, considering the number of times avatars are loaded.
A 400 KB avatar, which is a bit over half of what mine currently is (on an external server, = 0 MB of bandwidth) if it were on this server:
400 KB avatar x my 500 posts = 195 MB of bandwidth

And our current limit?
40 KB avatar x my 500 posts = 19.5 MB of bandwidth

Which is why I thought large ones used to be okay if on an external server.


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