avatars or sigs??

[butty]

been on a site earlier like this one that has avatars enabled instead of signatures. for those who dont know a avatar is a smaller image to the left of ya username. you can see what i mean on this board here

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=167111

now the thing is the page u look at on osa is only about 3k, some of the avatar's are 300k and so u can imagine the effort is downloadin sum of em.

avatars r generally only about 10-15k so it would keep the speed etc etc. ya can still have your own design and upload it through your usercp so u can still have summet personal like

if there wasnt so much speed improvement id wanna stick with sigs but seeing what diff it makes it seems worthwhile to change em over. i also think board with avatars and not sigs enabled r more tidy looking and less messy.

so im doing a poll. if u wanna keep the sigs then choose keep the sigs if u wanna bring forth the avatars then choose that one and if u rekon givin avatars a 2 week trial is cool with another poll at the end of that where we could bring thy sigs back then choose that one.

im choosin the trial one coz id like to see what diff it makes erm jus coz we can lol

im leavin the poll open till friday so get voting!...

 

[blue jammer]

2 weeks trial gets my vote...

What about a compromise?

Text only sigs, and avatars - this would tidy up the large images some people have, by ridding them, and making the pages load faster

I no longer fear change

 

[butty]

aye that sounds good jammer as its the images that r slowing sheet down like.

if we dig avatars in the end then ya can still have text in ya sig jus no images

 

[Lozzie]

Avatars are ok...it'd make the board quicker I suppose. Sigs are cool though too, try it oooot.

I don't think any1 would argue...ur the boss.

 

[S-J]

Sorry to piss on your chips Butty love... But Ive voted keep the sigs cause I think everybody's are just reete grand!

S-J x

P.S. talking of chips... Thanks for the curly ones last night and your fish didnt make me sick today either... Nice one

 

[ruffers]

Sigs per se ain't the problem, ma-hoosive images are as it slows it down and looks a mess.

Can we turn them off?

I'm on an 8 meg connection so it makes no odds to me speed wise but I'd turn them off if I could.

<edit> after a check in user cp you can and I have. Much better.

Bring on the avatars...

 

[ilovepiano]

I've voted to have a trial. I like the idea of upping your pic in your user cp, I'm sure a lot of peeps will find that usefull.

While your making that change, can you bring the arcade back too?

 

[Jiglo]

I can't use the sigs anyway because I haven't bothered using my webspace at Blueyonder, but i'd probably get confused for a while not knowing at a glance who's posted on here:S

I use an avatar on a couple of other sites that I use though and it was just a case of uploading a small image onto the site i'm using, is this one going to work the same way, or do we still have to up it to our own webspace?

I'm easy whichever way the majority goes though!

 

[glazzy]

I voted for the 2 week trial cos i aint fussed either way

jayne x

 

[butty]

I use an avatar on a couple of other sites that I use though and it was just a case of uploading a small image onto the site i'm using, is this one going to work the same way, or do we still have to up it to our own webspace?

yes mate thats right avatars u can upload thru ur usercp

 

[johny]

2 week trial sounds bestest

 

[oldskoolkidder]

i voted keep the sigs

i love my sig and alot on here are wikid - aslong as the sigs are kept quite small it shudent be a propblem shud it ???

 

[butty]

i voted keep the sigs

i love my sig and alot on here are wikid - aslong as the sigs are kept quite small it shudent be a propblem shud it ???

its easier said than done mate. i used to have to get me sig ruler out oo err on numerous occasions and in the end i jus got bored of it lol

it isnt jus the dimension size buddy its the image size too. a lot of the animated ones are a few hundred k and take a while to load up ya see.

i do agree with ya tho the sigs r damn good im jus thinkin that they could be redone on a smaller scale, ya will still get peoples individuality and people can up there own images it jus wont be taken up half the page

 

[oldskoolkidder]

yeah true true - didnt really think bout the actual size file of em! oops!

maybee a 2week trial would be the best option then! ...

 

[jenwah]

did vote t keep the sigs, but lookin at that forum, it does look right tidy n that sooo....give it a trial

 

[Vickles]

I voted for the trial.

I personally prefer sigs but a change could be good

 

[ClaireW]

I voted trial cos I dont mind either avatars or sigs

 

[beaker]

I voted trial cos I dont mind either avatars or sigs

but but but... our sig is ace

 

[RetroAndy]

I prefer sigs but will welcome a trial.

 

[Vickles]

but but but... our sig is ace

I know, I love my sig but change can be good Jo, broaden your horizons girl lol