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kgdrenefort Guru
Joined: 19 Sep 2023 Posts: 312 Location: Somewhere in the 77
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:33 am Post subject: Avatar on the forum |
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Hello,
Avatar are limited to 80×80 and 7ko.
Don’t you think it’s kind low regarding we are in 2024 with way stronger bandwidth ?
These value are from 2000, probably, but maybe that would be nice to increase allowed weight. Had to export N times in jpeg before it was less than the 7ko limitation.
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GASPARD DE RENEFORT Kévin _________________ Traduction wiki, pour praticiper.
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rab0171610 Guru
Joined: 24 Dec 2022 Posts: 422
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:52 am Post subject: |
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The concept of avatars seems very 2000 to me. I vote we just do away with avatars. Unique usernames only. |
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Banana Moderator
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1721 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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as long as the update to a newer forum version isn't done, the limitation exists.
Quote: | Don’t you think it’s kind low regarding we are in 2024 with way stronger bandwidth ? |
I personally wish, that those limitations from the past could be there again in some cases.
It would avoid so much overhead resulted from "because". Code compiliations would be faster, cars more efficient, games not ~200GB and e-mail would be readable again..... _________________ Forum Guidelines
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pietinger Moderator
Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 5094 Location: Bavaria
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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Banana wrote: | I personally wish, that those limitations from the past could be there again in some cases.
It would avoid so much overhead resulted from "because". Code compiliations would be faster, cars more efficient, games not ~200GB and e-mail would be readable again..... |
I am not laughing because it is wrong ... I am laughing because it is so true ! I only can say:
Me too ! _________________ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger |
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szatox Advocate
Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3424
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Don’t you think it’s kind low regarding we are in 2024 with way stronger bandwidth ? | No. Just because we _can_ do something doesn't mean we should.
What benefit would come from bumping the limits?
Quote: | The concept of avatars seems very 2000 to me. I vote we just do away with avatars. Unique usernames only. |
Well, I do actually see a benefit to having avatars. Humans are visual creatures, recognizing pictures with distinct features is way easier than recognizing random strings like rab0171610.
Mind that not all usernames are easy to pronounce or retain any meaning when crossing language and cultural barriers. Having avatars is good for developing interpersonal relationships in a setting like a world-wide text based forum.
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wjb l33t
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 631 Location: Fife, Scotland
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Banana wrote: | Code compiliations would be faster, ... |
I was doing maintenance on an old PDP system in the 90's. Dev machine had a couple of RK07 drives. A clean build for the software I was working on took over 12 hours, with the washing machine sized drives shaking/rattling/rolling the whole time. Because software has always expanded to fill the hardware available. |
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Banana Moderator
Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1721 Location: Germany
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kgdrenefort Guru
Joined: 19 Sep 2023 Posts: 312 Location: Somewhere in the 77
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
I understand these point of view.
Still, 7Kb for an avatar is quite small, but I won’t push a forum upgrade for that purpose :).
Was just curious about it.
Thanks.
Regards
GASPARD DE RENEFORT Kévin _________________ Traduction wiki, pour praticiper.
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54577 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:55 am Post subject: |
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kgdrenefort,
The forum upgrade has been in the pipe for several years.
Maybe when it happens. :) _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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those that do backups
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484
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Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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One advantage of their current x,y dimension is that they don't consume an obnoxious amount of screen space. I could have a 100" monitor and I still wouldn't want avatars to be much bigger than they are. As for bandwidth, wasting it doesn't produce a better result. I'm looking at you, modern web. _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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myga Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jun 2023 Posts: 121
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 2:50 am Post subject: |
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We know that Gentoo folks are following the 'if it works, don't touch it" MO, but I think it's time to let go of the 2000s and switch to something more modern. XenForo offers a great service and I only know about this org through FreeBSD forums. It looks simple, neat, modern and easily customizable . _________________ [Never break the law to save people. Nope, there aint no heroes here. Unless you are 'Satoshi Nakamoto', that's a true anonymous.] |
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e8root Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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7KB size seems completely arbitrary but enough to fit 80x80 GIF... which won't look very good if you use scaling but I guess for what avatars are used for its enough. Its not like purpose of this forum is to pixel-peep avatars.
The only issue Gentoo forum has in mobile devices.
Probably not the biggest issue given its forum for desktop operating system but if anything some layout tweaks would be useful to make it look more reasonable on mobile devices.
I would be against switching to completely different platform because of that. I like BhpBB and always liked it and its always nice to still being able to use it. _________________ Unix Wars - Episode V: AT&T Strikes Back |
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Hu Administrator
Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22626
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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A newer iteration of phpBB was already picked a while ago as the next step. The problem, as with all volunteer projects, is getting enough contiguous time from the right people to work on it. Not everyone who has privileged accounts on the forum has the Linux level privileges to do the required work, and some of the people who have the privileges may not have the expertise. In some cases, it may require not just contiguous time from one expert, but concurrent time from multiple people to work on it. |
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