Maximum signature dimensions

It would be nice if it stayed(or became) 75kb. People donated for the forums to come back up, and everything's being restored but nothing's being additionally added. There might be a few board upgrades, but nothing actually beneficial directly to the user.

This would also help signature makers since they've been forced under the 50kb rule for quite some time now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Why would you be allowed to store a 50~ kb signature if you're not allowed to use it?

Pointless.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Nobody has actually discussed it yet. Bobo was acting on his own when he specified a 75kb limit.

Personally I wouldn't mind a 75kb limit, but nothing bigger than that. Optimize your images =/

What about the people who can't optimize worth shit. :\/

Take Elixir here. He likes to make signatures, but isn't entirely experienced in the department of saving in a specific format. Then there's the amount of colors to use. Then there's things like dithering, diffusion, selective, adaptive, and oh god I'm already lost. They're all minor differences but they add up and make a big difference in the end. It's like saying a dollar isn't much, but it all adds up.

Point is, 75kb sounds plausable. Most of the signatures I've made(or tried making, heh) range between 50~100kb. If you're really that worried about the size(wait, what did donations go towards again.) then decrease the dimensions and increase the size. A maximum of 400x300 sounds fine. I've checked in photoshop just now and it seems pretty reasonable.

I also like how a certain person's signature was 49kb, but displayed as 51kb in properties and was signature police'd, yet another certain person's Ace Combat signature was well over 550x in dimensions and it took 2 weeks before I saw any change.

Probably because it was an Ace Combat sig.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Seems kind of stupid to have dimensions which slightly stretch people's signatures yet the filesize is still so low. That's the equivalent of having a 1600x resolution wallpaper in 16bit.

Also, isn't Megalith's signature stretching the signaturepostbit length? Whatever.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I would imagine 13 small images on 56k would be slower on 56k than a typical image, because it has to download the individual files as oppose to a whole image.

But yeah, nobody has 56k anymore. Not even Infernal. I've had the pleasure of being on a 64k rate and browsing gamingforce at the same time - it isn't enjoyable at all. Still, what is all the donating for if we can't even have a 25kb increase in sigs.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Shall we lower the dimensions, then?

I recall that Aardark made a thread about this a while ago, and people were generally in favour of reducing the image dimensions.

What did we donate for exactly again? If we reduce the dimensions, it's only fair that the filesize is increased. I think alot of people get sick of seeing the same huge images over and over.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

By the way, the 2 image rule was mainly to prevent people from circumventing the total combined filesize limit (which Megalith did repeatedly)

Past tense. Does that mean the 2 image rule is going to change in the future? Actually, what Megalith did was perfectly fine though, considering it was a single image with transparency which appeared as multiple ones. Just because they appear as individual images doesn't mean they are. It's good use of 550x300.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Like I said, individual files. 56k users would automatically start trying to multitask, and download the files, and not as a whole. When you have an image(take your current signature, for example) and it's downloading slowly, typically it'll download from top to bottom, or appear invisible until it has loaded.

If the files were in pieces, they would start downloading from top to bottom, as individual files. What this means is that a signature broken up into pieces will only be partially visible, and will appear malformed on a 56k user's page, until it's downloaded fully, resulting in it being much slower than a full image.

Now if the signature-in-pieces was downloaded and their IE didn't display the images until they're downloaded entirely, that would mean parts of the signature wouldn't display at once, as other parts are being concentrated on for download.

Example:



It's all about multitasking for a slow modem.

Whereas, if you have a single image, your 56k connection is only concentrating on a single image, and therefor will download faster. This way is better, because your modem doesn't have to cope and deal with multiple images. And it'll look something along the lines of this:



2 images still sounds fine. The miniature images of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all being clickable just to rate you in your signature(which I bet half of the users with the intention of giving you a serious rating would never use) really isn't necessary, Eleo.

I still say, up the filesize but lower the dimensions.

FELIPE NO

It is retarded, but that's how it works. I was on 56k for over 5 years, it was a painfully long road of torture but I got used to it. I learned and picked up on these things as thei nternet went along, while everyone else enjoyed DSL and then cable.

Bigblah, if you're going to support Eleo's "let's have 13 small pieces of shit in our sig" theory, do something about it and have the amount of images in signatures increased. Do something.

Edit: "Your file of 31.0 KB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 30.0 KB for this filetype." Oh brother.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I don't like sega's sig because it's dull and blurry. But that's entirely personal taste. Then again, I've never seen Ghost of the Shell or anything relating to it(it's an anime, right?) so I can't complain about it that much.

I think ava/sig combos should be matching, otherwise it's just annoying. Though anybody who hasn't seen Guu probably doesn't know that Acer's avatar matches his signature, and vise versa.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I would probably never hit the gif ava/sig scene, even though I'm currently making guu gifs. It's fun, but with the restrictions currently in place and even if I did have a clue on optimizing them, it would still come out as a watered down version of the real thing.

I think people don't want everyone having animated gifs - and that, crappy animated gifs. If this situation changed and SSJ3 wasn't banned I'm sure he would dig up a gigantic 300x width Goku with hair floating around like it's underwater. Of course nobody wants that.

Obviously not everybody is going to have a 200kb sig, animated or not. It just makes animated gifs even more difficult to deal with. It's not like we're incapable of changing the replies per page to what, 25 or something. And if somebody decides to clean their cache it'd be a perfect solution.

Viewing 100+ replies per page isn't really necessary either. Even if 200kb seems steep, 100kb does not. Say everyone had a signature that totalled exactly 100kb. That means 10 users = 1 mb. That means 20 users is 2, 30 is 3. I don't have a problem downloading 3 mb worth of images once, which is then stored in your cache and doesn't require you to download them multiple times to view a page. And it's not like you're never going to see the posters in said thread in other threads, so the ones you've already downloaded will already be there.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'd like to know just how many people on Gamingforce download under 1mbps. I think this thread indicates that there are little members who have 56k or a slow connection speed. This means that 75k per signature wouldn't be a pain for most people, or the majority.

Even if it were set at 70kb. That's pretty reasonable, and that's 100kb per user when you total their avatar with their signature. If people have problems loading lengthy threads, they can shorten their posts per page.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I've managed to find two different ways of evading the "Your signature is too big. Max dimensions are 550w by 300h blah blah blurrrrrrrrgh" message.

So I'm not entirely sure of what's happening here. Since the majority of people/staff have said 75k, is 75k allowed or is it uncertain? I've seen a couple of people with signatures the size of 50~75k, so I only assume it's been changed.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

And the point of bumping a sticky is? =[

I don't think anyone cares anymore about the signature checker or dimensions.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'd like to know whether or not the sig limit is still a maximum of 50k, because Skills has a 73kb sig.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?