Up the avatar size

[Teelie]

It does but it also creates problems of policing avatars, avatars hosted on sites with bandwidth limitations, unreliable up-time and so on.

 

[ComicChick]

Would the bandwidth problem be solved by having members host their avatars on other sites like Photobucket, Imgur, etc.? I'm sure that many would be willing to do that if it meant larger avvys but I don't know if vBulletin has an option that would force everyone to host them on external sites.

some people do that already

 

[Teelie]

Hmm, so we can. I somehow missed that. I wonder if we ask, beg, plea, demand and throw a big enough fit, we can get larger avatars.

 

[Xeno]

some people do that already

Yeah, but we still have the size limitations when we do. My thought was that if all of us had to store our avatars on external sites that would take the load off SHH's servers, so the admins might be able to allow reasonable increases in size. When I ran forums I had to restrict uploads to save space and bandwidth, but links from other sites weren't a problem, so I thought it worked the same way here.

Guidelines would be necessary, like no hotlinking, images have to be on certain sites (Photobucket, Flickr, Imgur, etc.) along with height and width restrictions so that the avatars don't throw off the page layout. The vBulletin software might not support all of that, however.

 

[CapsKookyQartet]

So, how many post do I need till I even get an avatar??

 

[ComicChick]

did you read the sticky at the top of this forum?

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=137235

 

[CapsKookyQartet]

Ah, thanks for the heads up

 

[Asteroid-Man]

20k posts or 5 years should get you 120x120 IMO