Avatars

[coral1]

>> Coral's could be the eye and nose of a the cat <<     I probably will not keep the cat. If I have one at all, it will most likely be the one on SE, but without the RED eyes.     :lol:

[COBOLdinosaur]

At Coral's suggestion, I'm repeating what I said in teh othr avatar thread.  The total bandwidth being used for avatars tight now is 2% of the total.  That is way to high to be sustainable.  Cutting down the size will reduce it but the banwidth cost is to high, and the only reason it is acceptable up to now is that we do not have the traffic to stress the server.

[Huntress]

50x50 is small enough for load times though.

[Esopo]

I think Avatars should be capped at less than 1k. No need for them being bigger, and we can provide the optimization if the user can't. I say 850 bytes for a 50x50. The internal optimizer reduces jpg to 40% compression if users can't comply with the max by themselves. That should make jpgs about 850 bytes.

[Lobzuki]

Smaller and optimized :o)

I like avas  

I like the idea of having a set of optimized avas and preventing regular users from hotlinking their own.

[coral1]

Muhahahaha!   Vote is 50/50.  How should I vote ..... Hmmmmmm
 :twisted:

[pinaldave]

Well,
I have been busy writing some tutorial and wrote now almost 4 tutorials, which are very interesting to me and my area. One can find the link in my profile. I am planning to add 4 more before end of month.

On the topic:
1) No Avatar or Generic Avatar (Like Mentor, Site Builder, Admin) uses one generic kind of Avatar. I think tech site should not have avatar, that sometime takes away tech impression from tech site.

2) No signature or we generic signature, which we make it like

Pinal Dave
Content Builder ERT.
ColdFusion Programmer
Las Vegas, NV

Just my opinion

Something like that. I think that gives some quality look to site.

[Anonymous]

I think that the flow of the consultation from top to bottom should NOT be unnecessarily broken with sigs.

Information like location, job title should NOT be part of the flow of the consultation. If the seeker wishes to print it, what a waste of paper.

This sort of info should be in the avatar area (not necessarily with a graphic) off to the side. Ideally, this should be hidable/suppressable.

Personally, all I need to know is the name and status of the person I'm talking to. Where they live, their shoe size or sexual orientation is of no interest to me. As is knowing if they believe in god, the tooth fairy, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

And if I ask, I should be referred to their profile where a fuller picture (if you excuse the pun) can be provided without unnecessary clutter of the consultation.

[Esopo]

Aye.