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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2014, 04:40:40 AM » |
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I second "stay out of the thread then-n!"
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2014, 04:45:58 AM » |
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I second "stay out of the thread then-n!"
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2014, 06:01:38 AM » |
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I actually feel guilty about this since I have trouble creating/editing my gifs.
What would be considered an acceptable size range?
I do try to reduce size by rendering to small resolutions (my project uses 320x200, which I scale up), but then the animation looks blurry when upscaled on the browser.
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2014, 10:12:55 AM » |
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some people are posting 40MB gifs in here which craps out chrome - can we get an acceptable limit pls?
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« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2014, 10:40:35 AM » |
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as an alternative, i'd recommend you just don't use that stupid feature where it shows replies to threads you've posted in, that feature doesn't even work right anyway (since apparently you can't remove a thread from it). just use the email system like i do; get email notifications for the first reply since your last reply in a thread, and read tigsource through email
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2014, 12:27:51 PM » |
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For reference, what is an acceptable gif size? I would like to try to play nice with older computers; not sure where the line is though. (I've never tried anything close to 40 mb, that is pretty crazy huge.)
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2014, 12:48:33 AM » |
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Also some people have to use mobile connections with limited traffic. 40 Meg is about 2 percent of my monthly free traffic and I guess I am not the only one with that problem. Linking with a hint on the file's size would really help!
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2014, 01:45:42 AM » |
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Yeah I like the link idea - also maybe this should be a global rule too since everybody is now treating their devlogs as a GIF log.
I would consider a 5MB limit as generous, though I only seem to get noticeable problems when GIFs encroach on the 10MB mark.
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2014, 04:16:38 AM » |
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On some forums I've seen the spoiler tag used to hide big images... But I suspect the image is loaded anyway even if not shown.
I, for example, have set my browser to never load flash content until I click on it, so I avoid massive slowdowns on some pages.
Can the forum software do something similar (a tag or something that doesn't load until clicked)? I'm guessing not...
Then again, and sorry to jump into the "don't browse those threads" camp for a bit, but mobile users should really steer away from such threads. Even if they only have static images, they will be a massive resource hog.
Another forum I used to visit would have a "56k Unfriendly" tag on image threads. It was for obvious historical reasons, but kept around just for users to know a thread was heavy loading.
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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2014, 06:10:06 AM » |
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but people will post this shit in every thread anyway, even in the introduce yourself thread
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2014, 06:42:09 AM » |
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I agree, especially being someone who browses this forum during work breaks with a crappy old XP computer. Or hide it in spoiler tags, if that works. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2014, 06:49:12 AM » |
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but people will post this shit in every thread anyway, even in the introduce yourself thread
but the discussion is about one thread in particular |
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« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2014, 08:04:50 PM » |
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I hate to whine, but after my most recent experience (a thread with lots of animated GIFs actually crashed my phone--didn't realize that was even possible), I'm almost afraid to click on some dev logs for fear of there being so many animated GIFs that my (meager) computer (or phone) will slow to a near halt. Granted, I'm a noob (so I'm probably just rehashing a discussion that's happened 1,000 times), but I feel like I might not be the only one who thinks the animated GIFs are getting out of hand  Not to mention that 256 colors and lossless compression weren't really meant to be used for videos on the web... but that's more of a technical argument and as a complainypants whiny baby, I feel it is my duty to appeal to emotion/fear instead  |
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