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This month the site has been hit with a large bandwidth bill. Much larger than normal. So I've been looking at what is causing it.

 

I found that some of you have very large animated avatars. One of them is 1.4meg in size! That has to load everytime someone loads up a new page with it on. Two avatars alone have eaten up over 8% of our allocated monthly bandwidth.

 

So I have had to impose a 100kb maximum size for your avatars. I have also removed any avatars that are too large. If yours has disappeared, that is why.

 

Sorry for having to do that, but it's something that we needed to do. You can still get some good avatars for way less than 100kb. Look at mine. Sexy as hell, and only 37kb.

 

Mike

Posted
Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! :sad:

 

Yours was one one of my favourite ones as well, never mind mate, you can borrow mine if you like :wink:

 

Yours reminds me of George Michael :wink:

Posted
Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! :sad:

 

Yours was one one of my favourite ones as well, never mind mate, you can borrow mine if you like :wink:

 

Yours reminds me of George Michael :wink:

 

Was he the singer from Wham?

Posted
Is mine still here.....

 

Yay. But then again i do link to a off site one, but i don't know if that makes any difference.

 

Linking to offsite ones are ok :thumbsup:

Posted
Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! :sad:

 

Yours was one one of my favourite ones as well, never mind mate, you can borrow mine if you like :wink:

 

Yours reminds me of George Michael :wink:

 

Was he the singer from Wham?

 

I dont like either of you anymore :lol:

Posted
Is mine still here.....

 

Yay. But then again i do link to a off site one, but i don't know if that makes any difference.

 

Linking to offsite ones are ok :thumbsup:

 

Whoop whoop! May the frustration continue!

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Posted
If people have an animated gif one that's too big, I can make them a bit smaller by removing some of the frames ;)

 

Clever stuff Phil :think:

 

 

 

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:idea:

 

Can you remove the bra from Chris's one? :mrgreen:

Posted
If people have an animated gif one that's too big, I can make them a bit smaller by removing some of the frames ;)

 

Clever stuff Phil :think:

 

 

 

:think:

 

 

 

:think:

 

 

 

 

:think:

 

 

 

 

:think:

 

 

 

:idea:

 

Can you remove the bra from Chris's one? :mrgreen:

 

No :no:

 

:lol:

Posted
what about ones that are hosted externally - do they affect it too?

 

Externally hosted avatars are fine as they don't use OSF's bandwidth.

Linked mine from photobucket, is that ok now?

Posted
what about ones that are hosted externally - do they affect it too?

 

Externally hosted avatars are fine as they don't use OSF's bandwidth.

Linked mine from photobucket, is that ok now?

 

:thumbsup:

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