Post by fAB on Feb 18, 2005 17:02:22 GMT -5
Hey everyone, I hate to be a bummer, but I need to address a problem...
I'm on a dial up connection (and a particularly slow one at that), and I know I'm not the only one. When I come to the forums, each thread, even small ones, takes a minute or more to load up. It's always been slow for me, but never this slow. At least a large chunk of the problem seems to be coming from peoples' signatures.
Several of you really active members have gotten some really fancy sigs. They look cool, but they're killing the loading time on the pages, and since you post often (which is a good thing), this problem is everywhere, not just a few threads.
As an example, EricChiz's current image is nearly a whopping 200KB. To put things in perspective, that's about as big as the entire Legends Station home page with all of its content and pictures...
So, I'm not gonna go making a law, but if there's any way some of you (EricChiz, Paragon and Buster Cannon come to mind) can reduce the file size of these sig banners, it would be greatly appreciated by me and certainly others as well.
If you'll notice, my current Feldinaut banner in my sig is a nice size, and has plenty of colors, but I've still managed to keep the file size of it down to 18.5KB.
To help with the situation, anyone who does not have the means to compress images may e-mail them to me. If possible, I'll reduce the size as much as I can without ruining the picture quality, and then send the image back.
Thanks!
I'm on a dial up connection (and a particularly slow one at that), and I know I'm not the only one. When I come to the forums, each thread, even small ones, takes a minute or more to load up. It's always been slow for me, but never this slow. At least a large chunk of the problem seems to be coming from peoples' signatures.
Several of you really active members have gotten some really fancy sigs. They look cool, but they're killing the loading time on the pages, and since you post often (which is a good thing), this problem is everywhere, not just a few threads.
As an example, EricChiz's current image is nearly a whopping 200KB. To put things in perspective, that's about as big as the entire Legends Station home page with all of its content and pictures...
So, I'm not gonna go making a law, but if there's any way some of you (EricChiz, Paragon and Buster Cannon come to mind) can reduce the file size of these sig banners, it would be greatly appreciated by me and certainly others as well.
If you'll notice, my current Feldinaut banner in my sig is a nice size, and has plenty of colors, but I've still managed to keep the file size of it down to 18.5KB.
To help with the situation, anyone who does not have the means to compress images may e-mail them to me. If possible, I'll reduce the size as much as I can without ruining the picture quality, and then send the image back.
Thanks!
