Avatars Return to DiabloFans.com
As of this moment, all avatar privileges are restored. There is a maximum width and height of 150x150 pixels. For now, only staff members can upload animated avatars (to help ease server strain), but this may change in the coming weeks and/or months.
A WORD OF CAUTION: Do not abuse these privileges. This is a strictly "abuse 'em and lose 'em" situation. Should there be a rampant mistreatment of the avatar system (pornographic or insulting avatars, etc) then they will all be removed once more. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Enjoy, everyone!
that way we can permanently have avatar's.
anyways i dont see why we cant do this. the smaller avatar file size doesnt affect anything in any way. and huge ass sigs piss me off, escpecially as most of the time they take up the entire screen. and no my screen size isnt a problem as its 24"
ie http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16140 Deathmars' sig.
Shit, I wish I still had the PSD for my sig, you know what? I think I'll make a new sig. =]
I dissagree. Alot more of someone's personality can come out in a signature then an avatar. And just because one person has a huge signature doesnt mean you should punish everyone for it.
Personally I'm about ready to turn my avatar off, as avatars look really wierd with those pictures above them in the classic Speedvision.
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There SHOULD be a size limit, maybe 4 inches or something. But not getting rid of avatars completely.
/agreed
What I don't like though is the banner about my name that says Nephalem. That banner should say Saboteur. And where it DOES say Sabotuer, there should be nothing there at all.
A shame IE can't handle it yet (boo Microsoft!).
JK.
I'm so happy- now I have to somehow think of an avatar... I think I deleted my old one from last year when privileges got revoked.
Edit--
Oh, it's still there x.x
Meh. Only one staff member has one at the moment anyways. It's mostly the fact that I want to limit the amount of server strain for now, seeing what we can handle, before I allow everyone to upload animated avatars (they take longer to load and are much larger files).
To reduce server strain anticipated by the announcement of Diablo III when we had literally thousands of new users. As it was, eliminating avatars proved not to be enough.
There is a signature size limit, and Deathmars' sig is just under it.
Yep. Any avatars that were in the system before they were disabled on 6/28/08 are still there.
Anyone who joined after that will have to upload one, if they want one.
Majorly agreed. I would love to either see that little high council member thing gone or the diablo fans thing gone. Either way it would look better imo. Plus it would help Jetrall's problem about moving avatars.
As I said, removing those banners would help I believe. Cutting the pictures in half should fix bandwidth, right?
Oi, dark times that was. New moderators+thousands of new members+not enough bandwidth=unusable site...
It's mostly returned back to normal now though, so thumbs up! : D
Dayum, big ass avatar limit.
Now I get it. He has an avatar... we have avatars! WOOT!