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Look, why SHOULD it be changed?

We are all saying why it shouldn't, but nobody is going to change it unless a VERY strong argument were put forward.

And I fail to see how you can make a strong argument over 20*20 pxls!

Actually, (100*100 - 80*80) is a lot more pixels than 20*20. It effectively is the equivalent of 60*60. Always gotta do your math properly. :cool:

I'm happy with small avatars, and I wish Neowin would cut down on signatures a bit. Some of them take a large amount of thread space, and who reads them anyway?

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no bias in this post :)

Current 80x80 (N)

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150x80 (Y)

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160x120 (N)

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You framed the 160x120 avatar badly, no wonder the others look better. Give me a minute and i'll upload one that is framed well.

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You framed the 160x120 avatar badly, no wonder the others look better. Give me a minute and i'll upload one that is framed well.

Framed badly or not, 160x120 is far too big. That's almost going double up from 80x80. I don't want avatars to be huge, that's why I like Neowin because other sites just go overboard on avatar sizes. That is just imo. I think 80x80 is fine for the moment though.

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Having just a wider avatar (150X80) is better, because posts don't extend length-wise, and avatars don't get too large in scale and in size (bandwidth).

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Actually, (100*100 - 80*80) is a lot more pixels than 20*20. It effectively is the equivalent of 60*60. Always gotta do your math properly. :cool:

I'm happy with small avatars, and I wish Neowin would cut down on signatures a bit. Some of them take a large amount of thread space, and who reads them anyway?

You can turn off sigs in your CP under board settings.

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I think at the very least we should have the width increased to 160 as that won't have any impact on page length.

And remember, if you want to keep a square avatar, you can. You don't need to take up the full size available.

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And remember, if you want to keep a square avatar, you can. You don't need to take up the full size available.

No, but we have to look at other peoples oversized avatars :laugh:

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I think at the very least we should have the width increased to 160 as that won't have any impact on page length.

And remember, if you want to keep a square avatar, you can. You don't need to take up the full size available.

160 is too wide. 150 should be the max width. Having avatars so close to the borders of the forum skin looks ugly and overloaded. You need some white space around it at least...

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You can also turn off viewing Avatars. :rofl:

Yeah but I'd like to see other peoples avatar, just don't want to look at those huge amateur-board oversized avatars, looks crap.

I agree with Neptune, natural white space around it looks much better.

You should also consider removing .GIF support.

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Yeah but I'd like to see other peoples avatar, just don't want to look at those huge amateur-board oversized avatars, looks crap.

I agree with Neptune, natural white space around it looks much better.

You should also consider removing .GIF support.

You should also consider removing .GIF support.

No, there is nothing wrong with Gifs. I selectively remove Avatars and Sigs that I do not wish to view.

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I am going back to 80x80 support, can we drop this? :innocent: Starting to think any bigger may not be worth it!

Yeah I agree, next big push is removing .GIF support from both avatars and signatures, it looks crap.

( Is it possible to selectively remove members signature / avatar without blocking the entire hosting site? )

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Yeah I agree, next big push is removing .GIF support from both avatars and signatures, it looks crap.

( Is it possible to selectively remove members signature / avatar without blocking the entire hosting site? )

Yes if you use Firefox.

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Only thing I see is blocking images from an entire site, which isn't what I want.

If you use Firefox and the following two extensions it can be done.

Adblock Plus 0 7 5 5

Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper

You just right click on the Avatar and choose Adblock Image

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160 is too wide. 150 should be the max width. Having avatars so close to the borders of the forum skin looks ugly and overloaded. You need some white space around it at least...

Design-wise, it makes more sense to have a uniform margin around the image. With 150 width, the image will be offset to the left by a small amount and looks far worse (to me) than having a 160 width image that has the same margin on both sides.

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