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    Bigger avatars

    More people browse sysopt with high speed connections than with dial-up I'd imagine.

    A bigger avatar would be nice I think

    64 x 64 is oh so very small

    100 x 100 would be good

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    64x64 is pretty much the magic number for all of JM sites....Besides, yours would look even worse if it were larger

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    I would have a much nicer avatar if I had the oppertunity

    It's just that you can't really do much with 64 x 64.

    Even if most JM sites are 64 x 64 can't we be different and move forward from that?

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    I'd personally also be in support of larger Avatars (within reason of course).

    Of course a lot depends upon the technical limitations of VBulletin as to wehter that could be implemented

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    I'm at a VBulletin board which can have 150 x 150 avatars!

    I think Jupiter Media would have implemented the 64x64 rule when dial-up was king to be a bit more user friendly! But dial-up is no longer king

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    It's less about the bandwidth than about the length of the threads. Now that we've enabled sigs, they will grow considerably horizontally. Increasing avs will make that worse still

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    I dont know the ins and outs of vBulletin that well, but i am aware that a lot of other boards display their avatars/user info to the "side" of posts (i.e. imagine a left hand margin on the page, thats where it goes, see http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=48334 for an example) to circumvent such issues

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    while we're on the subject of avatars - I'm hoping we're all up for a little contructive criticism.

    Porsch: you have what is probably the worst avatar I have yet come across on the net! to say it is "infuriating" and "cheap" has to be the understatement of the millenium.

    with that said - Have a GREAT day.

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    Jakk, that requires all the user info to be at left, which means the message area will be further narrowed. I didn't think that was such a good idea here.

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    OK ...OK! I said "constructive criticism".

    take your pick - 64x64 avatars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strawbs

    Porsch: you have what is probably the worst avatar I have yet come across on the net! to say it is "infuriating" and "cheap" has to be the understatement of the millenium.
    Buy that man a beer

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    Actually......I would have a much niver avatar if I had more than 64x64 to play with...

    Point taken...I am on the hunt for a new avatar

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    That better folks?

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