Hey now ..... no slandering allowed here ! And I have to agree with Randy, we could keep the 60x60 size but can we pleeeeeeeeeze up the kb to 10 ?? Pleaseeeeeeee ?
Another thought on this subject, how about making it so the site doesn't automatically resize your avatar to 60x60 or whatever ?
Sometimes you have a great looking avatar that's not perfectly square, say 60x49 for example, & when it's squared it looks a little pixalated & loses something in the translation.
I vote for the avatars to stay exactly like the are to ensure us dail-uppers at least some sense of sanity.
20 posts = 20 avatars x 10KB = 200KB / 4KB/s = 50 seconds just to download the avatars on a short discussion thread. That excludes downloading the actual post especially those novel length replies from some people (you know who you are! :P )
Now if I have to go through that 20 times a day I'll go insane!
Crusader has perfectly stated part of the reason why I originally chose the current avatar size. The other reason is that I don't want the site to be screwed up asthetically with hundreds of oversized, clashing avatar images. Long ago I decided that I wanted a clutter-free discussion area where the discussion text is at the forefront. This will not be changing anytime soon.
Thanks!!