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Avatar Size Increase

tehelgee

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So, yeah, 51.2kb is small for an avatar, I think. Mine is bigger than that(admin privilege!), so I've decided to up the limit after a convo with alethiophile about it not putting undue burden on the server.

If loading times seem to get significantly worse for you, let me know here.
 
I've noticed a large amount of lag when loading pages via my phone, but not my laptop. It might just be my phone being fussy, or something, but I've had the slow loading time both at home (with a slow-ish connection) and at work (with a better connection).

Not much else to say here...
 
Perhaps this will open the floodgates to people with non-tiny gifs making them into avatars.
Still, I'll stick with my piece of catgirl perfection.
 
I have noticed absolutely no change, and will probably come back in a week to see if I notice anything by then.

Edit1: Been four days, no differences noticed. It was a weekend too.

Edit2: Been two weeks ish, no differences noticed.
 
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It seems fine, but I doubt there are actually all that many avatars taking advantage of the increased size, given that most people have likely stuck with the old avatar (or just plain don't have one). I'm not actually sure if a week's time is actually sufficient to test for actual performance issues.
 
It has been a month (and I am aware this may hit necro rules) but I have still yet to see any differences.
 
So if I upload a picture that's larger than those kilobytes it won't automatically be shrunk? or
 

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