upload larger icon files...not crazy just a little bit

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Title
upload larger icon files...not crazy just a little bit

Short, concise description of the idea
Mainly, its hard to get a GIF file under 40KB even when its under 100x100 pixels

Full description of the idea
Recently I tried to upload a couple of very nice icons but I got this message: The GIF image you uploaded is too large. GIF file size cannot

Comments

[pinterface]

At the time I started this comment, there were 13 userpics on the page. At 40KB each, that's 520KB. If we up the limit to even twice that, we're talking about 1,040KB, or ~1.02MB just for userpics. That's a considerable amount of bandwidth for mere vanity.

[dancesontrains]

True, and it is possible to make animated icons underneath 40 KB *points up*

[imc]

Yes. And anyway I'm not here to watch a complete movie in someone's userpic.

[azurelunatic]

Though that does get at least capped by threading. Happily. (I never thought I'd say that about threading.)

It would be a half-decent idea, actually, to have a setting for "turn off all userpics" on site-scheme and ?format=light pages (such as directory search and site-scheme/?format=light comment pages). This would improve the LJ experience of people who didn't want to see userpics for whatever reason, and/or didn't want to deal with the load time of userpics, even relatively small ones.

[nostariel]

+1

[shadowed_light]

I like it. Or perhaps a "turn off userpics exceeding 40Kb" option -- though that would be a bit more complicated.

Great suggestion, azurelunatic.