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Started by James Gryphon, October 15, 2016, 10:10:50 PM

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James Gryphon

We're experimenting with larger avatars, and I'm wondering what a good size would be.

Here's my classic Gryphon avatar:


And here's a few different sizes in the attachments below, 80, 100, 120, and 150 respectively.
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James Gryphon

I think 150 is clearly too big, but below that and it's more ambiguous. I like 100 because it's a big, round number, and is memorable, but 80 might be good if you think 100 is a bit much. I've seen 120 on another forum, and it doesn't seem too overpowering there, but every forum is different, hence this discussion.
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Wylder Treejumper

Personally, I favor 120. It gets in detail the other sizes don't have.
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Gonff the Mousethief

Yeah, 120 is nice. Would let me have much clearer profile pics in the future.
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Jetthebinturong

120 or 100 looks good to me.
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Banya

It appears I'm the sole dissenting opinion at the moment. I like the 80. I can see other users' avatars well without being overwhelmed by them. I've also never hated gif avatars until now.
   

James Gryphon

If we keep it at this size, maybe we could ban animated avatars; we'll see.
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Cornflower MM

I like 100.

And as for banning the gif avvvies - Why? We've never had cause to before now. Just because one member 'hates' them - And hasn't stated a reason why?

Or we could compromise on that. Keep the avatars 100/120, but not ban the gifs - Just make them 80x80?

James Gryphon

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Well, at 100px an animated gif is half again the size that it was, so it's at least that much more notable than it was when everything was tiny. I looked at the Honeycomb while I was considering optimal sizes, and noticed that it has a rule to that effect, so it isn't an idea I came up with just out of thin air. Also, I give Bny's thoughts on how the forum should be great weight and consideration, and if she says she doesn't like something I take it seriously. (That's the main reason why we moved from the ruby red interface bars to the salmon color a while back.)

That said, a smaller size for animated gifs, rather than an all-out ban, doesn't sound unreasonable, and we could certainly start with a 80px limit and see how that feels.
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Cornflower MM

Oh, okay, I can blame BanBan for the pink I despise with a passion now. ;) Thanks for dropping that piece of info.

Quote from: James Gryphon on October 16, 2016, 06:43:50 PM
That said, a smaller size for animated gifs, rather than an all-out ban, doesn't sound unreasonable, and we could certainly start with a 80px limit and see how that feels.

Sounds better than an extreme, all-out ban. ;)

Jetthebinturong

I support smaller sizes for GIFs.
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"Understood." Will looked at Nico. "Will you be my buddy?"
"You're a dork," Nico announced.
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James Gryphon

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On the salmon: From what I could see of pictures of Redwall, it's hard to get it right (every one varies a little bit), but the color we use here is close, about as close as I think I can get from a simple gradient:


Now, I had meant to go through and change the light pink bars (like the one surrounding the News ticker) to better match the tiles you see in the picture here, but I never got around to that... maybe I will, sometime.

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I'll talk to Matthias about the 80px limit for animated gifs next time I see him.
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