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[Spazie]

Well, I like having animated avitars. They're lots of fun. But they're pretty much impossible to get down to the alloted size. I tried to point it to my home webserver, but it says the file size is too big. (it's 277k)

Is there a way that avatars can actually be hosted off the site, so that we can use larger sized files? It won't take up any more room on your servers, Charlie. I think it's a good idea. That way I don't have to keep bugging you to change my avatar for me. :p (I think that's the only reason my current one works.. it's a pretty big file.) It just doesn't make sense to download them to the server when it can just point to another site.

[kilcher]

If they're hosted on another site then every time an avatar loads it has to contact that site to pull it in. That slows things down quite a bit, especially if the other site happens to be down.

[Charlie]

I'm reluctant to allow larger avatar uploads because of the extra load that puts on the server -- whether its mine or someone elses. I try to make sure that SaturnFans pages load as fast as possible, and if everyone has large avatars that will really slow things down. On a case by case basis, however, I will review and upload a special avatar for a member if its not too large. Email me the graphic to me at webmaster@saturnfans.com and I'll take a look at it.

Charlie