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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 05:42 PM
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hi there, i was wondering if there is any reason why the avatars had a maximum size of 5kb?

probably a simple reason im just intrigued
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 05:47 PM
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some people use this REALLY crap service called dial up


Apperently its so slow you'd be better off view this website via print outs, from a mates PC, sent via royal mail


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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 06:06 PM
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so its coz of them tight arses wont pay a couple of ŁŁs extra for broadband then?
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 06:33 PM
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yeah...

but it also makes the site faster as a whole...

its not that hard to do it either... so no one minds much

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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 06:55 PM
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Dial up

Is that not where you ring a 0906 number?
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 07:06 PM
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i agree what is dial up
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by dreamin
so its coz of them tight arses wont pay a couple of ŁŁs extra for broadband then?
OR because its not available in there area
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 07:23 PM
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fair comment apogies to anyone in that position wont be long tho
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 07:24 PM
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apologies!!!!!!!
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 07:25 PM
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No worries
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 07:42 PM
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Also, please remember that the majority of users on here upload their avatars to this site, which are hosted on the PF servers....

So when you have 18748, and lets say, 18500 of em upload thier 5k avatar to the PF servers - thats 92500k in hosted images alone.... And when you have 50 posts to a page, thats 250k downloaded from the PF servers everytime the page/thread is opened...

PF is free for all to use, but bandwidth cost money - money that Stu @ Petrucci graciously put up themselves (with the help of sponsors and trader fees) for use to use
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