Avatar Size

[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.

[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.

[Wylder Treejumper]

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

[Chipster of Noonvale]

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[Gonff the Mousethief]

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

[Søren]

120 seems nice to me.

[Jetthebinturong]

120 or 100 looks good to me.

[Groddil]

120 or 100 looks good to me.

[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.

[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]

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.

[Cornflower MM]

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

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.

[James Gryphon]

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.