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Skis_to_the_slaughter
Posts: 166 - Karma: 10
Please harvey make it a bigger icon space I have lots of cool ones but not enough space.

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May 22 2003 4:50PM
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Harvey
Posts: 4996 - Karma: 692
Are you talking about the dimensions or the file size?

Either way, I can't make it bigger, sorry.

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May 22 2003 5:11PM
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Melvs
Posts: 15174 - Karma: 480
just curious, why can't you make the file size bigger?

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May 22 2003 5:34PM
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Harvey
Posts: 4996 - Karma: 692
Because the forums are the busiest part of the site. If a thread has 20 replies, and you click on it, and it has 20 icons, there's automatically potentially 40 k of transfer... threads are clicked on tens of thousands of times a day, so if the file size was bigger, we'd run out of bandwidth more quickly.
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May 22 2003 5:53PM
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Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
it really adds up eh...

Patrick
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May 22 2003 8:14PM
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QuazBotch
Posts: 3909 - Karma: 223
yeah, it adds up.

If I'm thinking straight, your giraffe avatar is the equivelent of 640 letters/numbers/spaces in a post. Now really, how often do you see a post 640 letters/numbers/spaces long here? The avatars take up more bandwidth then posts!
May 22 2003 8:31PM
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QuazBotch
Posts: 3909 - Karma: 223
for reference, that post ^^^ is aboot 200 letters/spaces long.
May 22 2003 8:32PM
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Melvs
Posts: 15174 - Karma: 480
oh... damn... was hoping to get you to raise it to hmmm... say.... 5k... but no worries, I understand

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May 22 2003 8:54PM
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BrodyLeven
Posts: 7016 - Karma: 187
title of this thread=waste of usefull bandwith.


Brody
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May 22 2003 9:47PM
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Bangor
Posts: 9599 - Karma: 129
yea, and when i started a thread about this same thing a while ago, i guess i killed some bandwith too.....

god damnit! always screwin up......
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May 22 2003 9:56PM
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Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
yeah thats a really good point, but maybe the icons are stored in the cache folder of our computers, so they don't have to load each time

Patrick
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May 22 2003 10:35PM
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Phrosty
Posts: 9956 - Karma: 18
they are, thats why some people who post all the time show up real quick and people that post once a month, or whenever your history clears take longer. it's simple really.


Why do black people dislike me? If it wasn't for white dudes they would still be slaves.

And I'm sure I would own a few.
May 23 2003 1:18AM
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Harvey
Posts: 4996 - Karma: 692
Yeah they are loaded in the cache, but there are 30,000 different visitors each month... unless you load everyone's icon once a week, you're going to use the bandwidth.

So it's not as bad as 30*2k*whatever, but it's enough that it makes a difference.

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May 23 2003 12:29PM
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Skis_to_the_slaughter
Posts: 166 - Karma: 10
My idea would be to increase file size and compensate by getting rid of signatures (there boring after the billionth time anyway)also maybe the time clock thing could die

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May 23 2003 3:00PM
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freezed
Posts: 12973 - Karma: 500
i think getting rid of sigs is not a good idea...

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May 23 2003 4:58PM
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vegabond
Posts: 1235 - Karma: 11
make only donators have icons.. to get lower bandwidth, and ill get my ass in gear and drive the 5 minutes to ur house to donate.

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