SMALLER AVATARS

i had to remove almost 2GB of avatars,
now avatars are restricted to
110x110pixels
20kb size,
pls update who has lost avatars

this was insane, ppl has easy uploaded avatars of 500kb

its due to traffic, and load on server not on client,
its true that animated use mem, but its on client,
i eaven found 1.5mb avatars, now imagine unecessery load on server, as well as on network for that

site can autoshrink picture, that is not point, its point that it unecessery loads server, with general 60 instances of concurent user making box shrinking picture is totaly unecessery load,
basicaly by making only 1 shrinking of picture its same as 30ish mysql / http requests... which for only 1 avatar showring on page it will make 30 times more load... i hope u would agree that this is totaly UNECESSERY for same output, (shrinked picture apears same as smaller picture, theres no differance to looks).

point is just to make ppl upload it smaller format.

to shrink picture you can use almost everything, including eaven wordpad...
its 0 effort for user, and its HUGE impact on heavy loaded server..

i hope this explains, and i hope you will have understanding for this small change.