If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

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If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

September 25, 2010, 01:44:05 AM

That is all...

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #1 – September 25, 2010, 02:33:50 AM

any particular reason why? just curious.. does it make the pages with gif images lag or something? i know that happens on some forums

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #2 – September 28, 2010, 09:52:09 PM

Quote from: turbo_88_xr7;336606

any particular reason why? Just curious..

x2...

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #3 – September 29, 2010, 10:24:23 AM

Bandwidth and page load up speed.

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #4 – September 29, 2010, 10:28:35 AM

Quote from: turbo_88_XR7;336606

any particular reason why? just curious.. does it make the pages with gif images lag or something? i know that happens on some forums

I'm guessing yes. There are still a lot of members and guests using dial up, and that's painful enough. I wonder how much the smilies window uses. I know I usually just use the More button. Maybe only have the essential, non-animated ones in the window?

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #5 – September 29, 2010, 10:58:12 AM

If there was a way for sigs to only show on a poster's first post in a thread, it wouldn't be too bad. I've seen it that way on a couple forums.

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #6 – September 29, 2010, 12:44:59 PM

dial up modem here, via blutooth connection to my cell phone's data service.

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #7 – September 29, 2010, 01:19:35 PM

Quote from: V8Demon;337136

Bandwidth and page load up speed.

I've got an upper level DSL plan, and places like the corral slow my speed down dramatically...nothing here has any noticeable effect on my system though.

The first post having a sig only is a good idea, hopefully that's an option.

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #8 – September 30, 2010, 09:14:21 AM

Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;337161

I've got an upper level DSL plan, and places like the corral slow my speed down dramatically...nothing here has any noticeable effect on my system though.

The first post having a sig only is a good idea, hopefully that's an option.

Your PC will only download the image/content once though and cache it from there - displaying it any more is more processor/memory usage and that's it. Bandwidth usage would not improve, other than a few bytes for the tags that attach the cached content in each post.

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #9 – September 30, 2010, 10:30:50 AM

Chuck, isn't this the

?

(sorry, not trying to be an asshole) I'm sure you had a reason, just seems like a topic concerning site usage would be better off somewhere else...

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #10 – September 30, 2010, 10:35:42 AM

Quote from: Seek;337278

Your PC will only download the image/content once though and cache it from there.

Oh, yeah....duh lol
(had a brain fart :hick:

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #11 – September 30, 2010, 11:47:41 PM

I have had an animated sig for a while now.. Why the problem now?? I have deleted it as to not "break the rules" but what brought this on??

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #12 – October 01, 2010, 12:07:59 AM

probably because of mine :rolleyes:

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #13 – October 01, 2010, 10:33:21 AM

Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;337161

I've got an upper level DSL plan, and places like the corral slow my speed down dramatically...nothing here has any noticeable effect on my system though.

The first post having a sig only is a good idea, hopefully that's an option.

Quote from: Seek;337278

Your PC will only download the image/content once though and cache it from there - displaying it any more is more processor/memory usage and that's it. Bandwidth usage would not improve, other than a few bytes for the tags that attach the cached content in each post.

It wasn't a statement in regards to bandwidth, but more so to limit clutter. Having an animated gif in multiple posts in a thread is very annoying. ThunderChicken would have disabled them completely had he been able to figure out how.

Some forums don't even allow for pics in sigs, so...

Quote from: sarjxxx;337284

Chuck, isn't this the :wrongforum:?

(sorry, not trying to be an asshole) I'm sure you had a reason, just seems like a topic concerning site usage would be better off somewhere else...

Hey, I'M the asshole around here...:beatyoass:

It's the proper forum for my purposes.

If you have an animated gif in your sig, please remove it.

Reply #14 – October 01, 2010, 01:48:37 PM

Quote from: Chuck W;337493

It's the proper forum for my purposes.

When Chuck types something, the forum corrects itself so that it's in the right place for his post. :D