So should the animations be removed all-together or set a frame limit? 3, for example.

This should apply for avatars as well, no?

Neat, same as Belgium does.

Main question is, how should it be limited?

Size in bytes? Total frames? Amount of animations? Combination of these?

Also, CSS, don't you have a browser that allows you to block unwanted animations? It was pretty much vital for me back before my limit was upped to a bearable amount.

Why not all of those? All of them take space.

Oh yes I can block animations (except for that stupid animations from GIFsoup, they always come back!) But I don't believe the rest of the forum should put up with their crap and most of the animations are absolute atrocities.
I'm not really sure how we should limit them, I was thinking of amount and total frames but we might as well shove in size in bytes, it'll make browsing much easier.


Animated avis are OK because there is a limit to file size that you can upload for avis. And the more frames in animation = bigger size and thus total size of animated avi is limited to something bearable.

I forgot Avi limits are applied to every image.

So lower frames, less size and amount, and less bytes?

Something like in my signature is fine, right?

I guess, but it's not fun to have it very slightly chipping away at my bandwidth every time I have to load it.

Well, if the gif is small compared to those who are on the first pages, I think it wouldn't be a problem, unless there are a lot of them, but the result would be the same.

Btter than more, actually. All we need is some limits.

This really should be done by a case-by-case basis. If you see an animation that bothers you then report it to a mod and let them be the judge. If the image is close to 1MB I'd say that's good enough to warrant removal. Those first two example images are a good example of that

But the limitations could help better (Taken the fact there aren't mods online).

Whoa whoa whoa


Isn't that idea rather contradictory to the last issue we had with browsers being screwed over by parts of a person's profile?
If I recall, that ended in a "it's not a big deal if it bothers one person. They should cope with it because life works like that" etc. etc.

I have seen few people complain about the bandwidth issue, so obviously it is not a universal issue and it's not a big deal, so we should just ignore it and lock this topic.

http://forums.mcleodgaming.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9314
Another example. So I guess we just PM you guys about it then, if the limits aren't implemented.

You can PM mods who are offline, this isn't any kind of emergency issue


2MB is pretty large for one image...


Yeah like that, what we can do is request that they remove it (which I will do now)

No because there's a big difference between only one person being annoyed by something and
one thing annoying everyone.