Changes Made?

OANST · #1 01-29-2009, 11:23 AM

Have there been changes made to the type of file we can use as an avatar? I can't change mine now as it keeps telling me that the file is too large. It's telling me this for files I've used as my avatar fairly recently.

***Wil*** · #2 01-29-2009, 12:00 PM

I wondered this. I was browsing the vB options (not making any changes), and I noticed that the maximum size an avatar upload can be is 8kiB, but I’m sure it used to be more than that. The rules disagree with me, but they can easily be changed by Peter. So Peter, made some changes?

OANST · #3 01-29-2009, 12:06 PM

Any chance we could change it back? I can't use anything other than what I currently have as things stand. I don't care over-much but it would be nice to have the option.

***Wil*** · #4 01-29-2009, 12:34 PM

I would be more than happy to change it back if I knew for certain what it used to be. A reassurance from Peter that it wasn’t reduced in the first place to stop OWF exploding wouldn’t be unwelcome.

Although that may encourage me to raise it to something higher than ever just to be evil.

Havoc · #5 01-29-2009, 01:43 PM

I've always thought the avatar limit was way to low to begin with, I always have to crop and dequalitize my pictures to ridicules standards if I want to upload them

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***Alcar*** · #6 01-29-2009, 02:19 PM

I modified the max avatar filesize at least two years ago to the current 8KB. This matches the rules which haven't been updated in yonks as well.

To be honest, if you can't reduce an image, even at our max dimensions of 100×100 down to 8192B, you fail.

Alcar...

OANST · #7 01-29-2009, 03:01 PM

Well, fact of the matter is.....I am a failure. Now that you have pointed my flaws out to everyone and brought me one step closer to just ending it, what do you propose we do about it?

Maybe photobucket changed something. They always worked before.

Havoc · #8 01-30-2009, 02:57 AM

Why is there even a size limit on an avatar that's hosted somewhere else all together?

Hobo · #9 01-30-2009, 03:45 AM

To stop pages taking an age to load on a 56k.

Come on, that was obvious.

OANST · #10 01-30-2009, 11:24 AM

I figured out how to do it. And all I had to was break the forums.

***Alcar*** · #11 01-30-2009, 03:29 PM

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Why is there even a size limit on an avatar that's hosted somewhere else all together?

Actually, they're hosted on the OWF. You can opt to upload an image that is originally from another website.

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I figured out how to do it. And all I had to was break the forums.

But you're avatar says it is 4.23KB

Alcar...

OANST · #12 01-30-2009, 03:31 PM

Broken, I say.

Pilot · #13 01-30-2009, 08:12 PM

Pancakes Made?

Strike Witch · #14 01-31-2009, 03:04 AM

Why don't you just use an offsite hosting thing? you know, enter Url here or whatever?

used:) · #15 01-31-2009, 03:18 PM

Photobucket. That's where it's at.

Havoc · #16 01-31-2009, 05:29 PM

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Why don't you just use an offsite hosting thing? you know, enter Url here or whatever?

This. Alcar just enable us to use an avatar hosted somewhere else. I believe you can put limits on that too, so we can still prevent people using trillion mb pictures but we can like quadrupple the current limit.

And who the hell is still on 56k (other then Brittish people who have the digital infratructure of WWII) these days anyway!

OANST · #17 01-31-2009, 07:03 PM

He's challenging the power structure. Ban him! Ban the fuck out of him! Do it now before it gets out of hand!

Strike Witch · #18 02-01-2009, 04:26 AM

Yes! Ban the rebel before it's too late!

Hobo · #19 02-01-2009, 06:15 AM

It's fucking tempting.

Havoc · #20 02-02-2009, 04:24 AM

You people hate me, come on, admit it.

Strike Witch · #21 02-06-2009, 02:05 PM

I may hate you, but I don't hate you.

OANST · #22 02-06-2009, 02:19 PM

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You people hate me, come on, admit it.

Somebody did something funny. I don't who it was or what it is but I do know that it's funny.

Hobo · #23 02-06-2009, 03:52 PM

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Somebody did something funny. I don't who it was or what it is but I do know that it's funny.

*Cough*

AlienMagi · #24 02-08-2009, 09:44 AM

sssh every time here on owf after the thread is answered people start talking off topic and everything gets totally boring. U ppl have no imagination at all. Except maybe hobo still

Jordan · #25 02-08-2009, 09:57 AM

Please AM, be the saviour of the forum. Be the first member to post something interesting.

***Nate*** · #26 02-08-2009, 03:52 PM

I have a better idea. AlienMagi should lead by example by not posting in threads. We might learn from that.

Pilot · #27 02-08-2009, 08:42 PM

He's the first person that I've seen with a red ice cube under his Rep Power instead of a green radioactive one. Is that negative rep?

Speaking of 'changes made' what about having a 'sexual preference' icon next to our names since we already have a 'rank' and 'sex' since that's such a big deal round here?

***Nate*** · #28 02-08-2009, 10:08 PM

Hover your mouse over the square and see what it tells you.

He's not alone, by the way.

OANST · #29 02-09-2009, 08:45 AM

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Hover your mouse over the square and see what it tells you.

He's not alone, by the way.

There are only two of them, though.

Pilot · #30 02-09-2009, 10:53 AM

Oh, heh. Yeah.

Fil.