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Originally posted by Darren
What's up with the 50 pixel limit on avatars? Any chance of changing that?
I think it would be good to be able to fit a picture of a 4Runner in there as I think it's easier to identify people and their rides that way in their posts.
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Hey Darren, the 50x50 avatar size is the default setting for vBulletin, which is the forum software we are using. Here's the problem with increasing the avatar size by very much - it eats up a lot of memory at an exponential rate. For example, a typical 32x32 avatar might be 354 bytes, a 50x50 might be 2,832 bytes, and a 100x100 would be 32,718 bytes. Right now, all the money for the forum is coming out of our pockets (the toyota sponsor in the banner ad is not paying us - we put it up for free just as a sample, nor has anyone bought tires from tirerack yet
). Therefore, we don't want the server costs to balloon on us. If and when some ad money starts rolling in to pay for the server, we could consider bumping up the avatar size to something much bigger.
In the meantime I have two suggestions:
1) we could bump the avatar size to 75x75, that should be adequate for allowing members to create an identifiable avatar pic, yet not be overly burdensome in terms of memory.
2) once you post some pics of your 4Runner in the gallery, you can add a hyperlink in your signatrue line which will take people to the gallery thread where your pics are posted. So you could have something in your sig line like : "Click HERE to see pics of my 4Runner".