The PokéCommunity Forums

The PokéCommunity Forums (https://www.pokecommunity.com/index.php)
-   Feedback & Support (https://www.pokecommunity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4)
-   -   GIF animations in sigs (https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=35812)

Geometric-sama April 9th, 2005 5:13 AM

GIF animations in sigs
 
I have a problem, and my problem is with the use of GIF animations in sigs. I'm not talking about blinkies and stuff, I'm talking about TV rips etc. that have been turned into GIFs so they can be added to sigs. We have a 500x300 limit which is all well and good, and the filesize of these if they're static isn't too high, but even a small TV rip can be well in excess of 500kb, which is just way too much for a sig. Can we limit filesize as well as dimensions?

NiNGi April 9th, 2005 5:24 AM

Well, this is a good point as it kind of annoys me too! some pages take ages to load... >.<

How are they meant to control filesize though? Images are linked to hosts like photobucket, which means they are not linked to the forum and it can't be controlled I think... o_o'

Kyogre-chan April 9th, 2005 5:24 AM

I brought this up a while back, in the lounge. Nobody seemed to mind the filesizes. I played an experiment a while back, when I had 6 animations in my signature, all adding up to 3.3MB. Nobody complained. It was there for about a week. In the end, I just removed it myself.

But yeah, we seriously need to look at a filesize limit...

EDIT: Well, we can't control the 500x300 limit either, can we? People are expected to follow the rules. If they don't, then their signature will be edited.

NiNGi April 9th, 2005 5:28 AM

Is there an option to monitor them though?
I'm kind of ignorant about this kind of things, but for what I know, the forum has nothing to do with the images linked from elsewhere... o.o

EDIT: Ah ok... well, in that case its really going to be hardwork on monitoring all those rules though... there should be a way of reporting signatures I think... o.o

Kyogre-chan April 9th, 2005 5:31 AM

Nah. If you spot an oversized sig, then all you can do is report it to the staff. o.o

loony April 13th, 2005 6:36 AM

the people can image crunche it its shrinks with 25% and 90% if you are a member there:O

Kyogre-chan April 13th, 2005 7:51 AM

Um… would you care to explain, mr_loonytik? ^_^;

loony April 13th, 2005 8:07 AM

sure:) it crunches the gif animation or gif file also jpeg.with 25% (90% if your are member there).so if the file is 1mb it is 0.75mb than:)here is the url:)it is pretty handy:P
http://www.lissaexplains.com/crunch.html

edit:forget to say it do not reduce the quality of the picture:)

Kyogre-chan April 13th, 2005 8:16 AM

Wow, that's really nifty, but we're discussing a rule for the GIF animations found in signatures here. Still, thanks for sharing! ^_^;

Alright, steering us back on-topic, what would be a suitable limit? 250KB? =X

loony April 13th, 2005 8:21 AM

i know thats why i told this so everbody can reduce the size of his gif animation file x_x

Geometric-sama April 26th, 2005 11:37 PM

Sorry to bump, but it's a problem again. *sweatdrop* With the physical limit being 500x300 pixels, I don't see why you'd need more than 80 or so KB. *notes that I have a small per week traffic limit at uni and the huge sigs take up a LOT of it*

Kyogre-chan April 26th, 2005 11:43 PM

Keep sigs disabled, that's what I like to do. ;P

Well, 80KB is a bit small, considering people like to use PNGs (which, IMHO, is much better than GIF or JPG). I'm thinking something along the lines of 150KB. :3

Geometric-sama April 26th, 2005 11:56 PM

Even using PNGs I can get my banner to around 70-80 KB, if I compress it the right way. 150K is REALLY big. o_O Remember, a typical download speed on dialup is 4-5KB/second, so that would take 30-40 seconds to download just one sig. And with 25 posts per page or whatever it is, that makes about 12 minutes just to download sigs! (Of course, you'll have cached images, but still...!!)

buster_wolf April 27th, 2005 12:01 AM

I usually try to make the signature about 10 frames or less to say the least and it's usually 100 x 200 or so. That is, if it's an animation signature.

Geometric-sama April 27th, 2005 12:05 AM

That's usually not too bad. But some people have, like, 500KB sigs!

Kyogre-chan April 27th, 2005 12:32 AM

Yes, but not everybody has 150KB sigs. o_O;

Geometric-sama April 27th, 2005 4:49 PM

Exactly, but not everyone needs 150KB sigs o_O *is getting confused now*

Vchat20 April 27th, 2005 5:11 PM

some code can be added to the forums in the form of a mod which can check for the image fileszie and go from there with it, but that would both make the forums/server slower and be a PITA to develop in the first place. the most youd be able to di is just keep an eye out for these sigs and report them as necessary.

Haunter April 27th, 2005 5:35 PM

Can somebody help
 
need help creating a sig picture!!

Vchat20 April 27th, 2005 5:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Haunter
need help creating a sig picture!!

not here

Rukario April 27th, 2005 6:00 PM

The only images we can control are images uploaded to PC.. these already have both file size and height x width limits set.

As stated above, the only thing you can do is report it to a staff member and hope the user complies with any request to resize or remove it..

Geometric-sama April 27th, 2005 8:23 PM

But we are allowed to report to a staff member? To do that, though, we still need to work out the size limit.

*notes that Steve runs away from me every time I try to talk to him*

Kyogre-chan April 27th, 2005 9:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PPNSteve
The only images we can control are images uploaded to PC.. these already have both file size and height x width limits set.

As stated above, the only thing you can do is report it to a staff member and hope the user complies with any request to resize or remove it..

If I may ask, what does this have to do with JA's suggested filesize limit? ^^;

Geometric-sama April 27th, 2005 9:34 PM

He's saying we can't control sigs ^^;

Kyogre-chan April 27th, 2005 9:39 PM

I... don't understand. O.o; We already have a resolution limit, so what's stopping us from controlling the filesizes? =X


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 11:07 AM.


Like our Facebook Page Follow us on Twitter © 2002 - 2018 The PokéCommunity™, pokecommunity.com.
Pokémon characters and images belong to The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo. This website is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Creatures, GAMEFREAK, The Pokémon Company or The Pokémon Company International. We just love Pokémon.
All forum styles, their images (unless noted otherwise) and site designs are © 2002 - 2016 The PokéCommunity / PokéCommunity.com.
PokéCommunity™ is a trademark of The PokéCommunity. All rights reserved. Sponsor advertisements do not imply our endorsement of that product or service. User generated content remains the property of its creator.

Acknowledgements
Use of PokéCommunity Assets
vB Optimise by DragonByte Technologies Ltd © 2023.