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upload larger icon files...not crazy just a little bit
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Mainly, its hard to get a GIF file under 40KB even when its under 100x100 pixels
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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
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Perhaps a system where each userpic slot counts for 40Kb, and if you want to upload a larger image, you can, but it will use more of your userpic allowance. So your 94Kb image would use 3 of your userpic allowance, etc.
That keeps everyone happy. LJ still has the size limits (sort of) and there isn't suddenly going to be lots of extra storage needed, and users can upload larger userpics.
I do think an upper limit will be needed though (perhaps no more than 3 slots per image or something) because otherwise you'll get people uploading stupidly large files which will cause havoc for people not on a faster connection.
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OP, I assume this limitation is in place to prevent pages from being slow to load for those on less than stellar internet connections. I'm sure people who use LJ regularly from slow connections wouldn't want the upper limit to be much higher than it is. I doubt it's a problem with the storage space your account takes up so much as everyone seeing your posts having to load a large file, so it's not equivalent to swap icon slots with large filesizes. Which is not to say this is necessarily a bad idea.
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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.
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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.
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