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I dont understand why people complain about sigs and other imgs on a forum when they are on 56k. I've been on 56k forever, I visit warez forums that are vbulletin, where everyone has a 150x150 avatar, 250x480 sigs that are sometimes animated and loads of other graphics and they load just fine everytime. I honestly dont understand what all the whining is about, especially if they are relatively small images (it's not like they are huge 500k screenshots)
When people have nothing to whine about, they concoct something to whine about. It's human nature, mi amor Big Grin
Like I said, when I'm downloading something else, like a apt-get upgrade (160Megs, do you want to continue? [Y/n]: yhurryupalready!!!), downloading an image you've seen before can get a bit tedious... although as adsorken says, once I've downloaded it for the first time it'll be cached.

JPG is fine if you make a gif and use the gimp to export it... there will be very little colour loss and you'll only lose transparency. But if you're using transparency I guess you're stuck...
Virtually any program that allows you to modify JPG's settings will allow you very little/no color loss. Like I said, it depends greatly on color coherance. One thing I used to prove to people as an experiment was to take a very sharp image, save it as a JPG at 100% quality, and look at the filesize. It'd be huge. Now...take that same image, apply a slight blur, and save it at 100% quality. Filesize reduced by about 40%. Why? Color coherance was slashed by the blurring. And often times...the slightly blurred version looked better than the sharp version.
dialup = infinite patience

tis why i am so patient. I already know how long something is going to take to d/l (hours, days whatever) and i am patient about it, if it gets done faster great, but i dont stop chatting/ircing (something you should look into)/d/ling mp3s etc, etc. :lol:
Well ya see, my chatting is done *here* Tongue Wink

Or I go away and do something else, like study for my calc exam (tomorrow!).
The whole point is that we don't want topics to be swamped with huge signatures. Is it really too much to ask for you guys to keep your signatures nice and small (to a reasonable extent)? Quite frankly it really is an eyesore to scroll down a page full of posts where 90% of the signatures are really distracting on the eye or are just really big.

Sure images might get cached but text of course won't. And anyway, if you have a big image in your sig and everyone else happens to as well (yeah, if we let one person have a big image then others will do the same too) then it will definitely load slower. Sure people on 56k should be more patient about loading pages... but why make them wait even longer?

I really don't see why people absolutely must have some big image or something in their signatures anyway. All we ask is that you don't put big images in to decrease load time and make the forums seem a bit cleaner. Smile
I reckon you should probably adopt a similar rule when it comes to inlined images then because I don't know about you but many people HAVE complained about certain people putting a buttload of pictures into one post, and they are all very large and take a long time to load even on broadband. The "eyesore" thing is personal preference. I actually enjoy seeing signature images; sigs show personality more than an avatar does.

And besides...no one's really using any big sigs at the moment, so why is there even an argument? And saying that text wont get cached is a very very weak argument, considering the entirety of this page's code right now is probably smaller than many avatars.

AKA...there's nothing to complain about. Stop complaining, you all. Big Grin
Yeah, it was a weak argument Tongue

IMO if someone wants to smack a whole bunch of big images in a post then that's fine IF the topic warns about the fact that there are a lot of big images.

Meh. Wink
You mean kinda like my WOS screenshot post? Big Grin
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