MP Background

[Vex]

Could we possibly get an option to turn the viewing of this off?

There's an option to turn off siggys, avys and all images, but there's none to turn off the MP background. I'm just dreading trying to access Bite during Christmas break because the amount of people having excessively large MP bgs has like... tripled since last summer.

The backgrounds are MUCH bigger than banners are allowed to be. There are limits on banners because of the people who have to deal with dial up (and not to use up too much bandwidth, but that isn't the point I'm trying to make).

So, I suggest either putting a file size limit of 100kb on the MP backgrounds, adding the option to turn them off or getting rid of them all together.

[Louvain]

I definitely don't know exactly how to do this, but I'll go creeping for an optional code if I can. I think enough people actually use the MP Backgrounds that I don't want to remove the code, and I'm not sure that having to go through each MP Background and find the size to moderate/remove them is going to be bundles of fun for me, but I can understand the whole dial-up thing and its multiple issues with images.

I've gotta leave for class in a while but I'll start trolling for the code now and if I don't find one, I'll keep looking tonight.

[Louvain]

I found the maker of the code and sent him an email seeing if he knew how to make an option. Figured going to the source would be a good step.

[Vex]

I'm not sure you'd have to go around moderating each one if you added a clause to the upload box stating that it can't be over 100kb. I know Abyss has a code like that for the avys... but that's a phBB board. I'm sure there's something similar for proboards, though.

[Vex]

So, I'm home, on dial up. Bite's taking absolutely forever to load. Also, MP backgrounds aren't considered images, so, despite me having turned images off, they're still there, taking up precious bandwidth.

[◞◯◟]

I've personally reduced the size of my own MP from 4.16 mb (horrendous, I know, and I apologize to anyone who's had their bandwidth raped) to 660 kb. As soon as I get a feeling for Abobe Fireworks again I'll see if I can get it down to 100 kb. Probably not, but having an MP over 4 megabytes... well, that's bigger than some MP3s. >.> Again, I'm sorry for anyone that has dialup.

[ophelia Lokason]

*whines* Can someone tell me HOW to make one? lol

[Moons]

_{I just take a sreenshot of the bite, cut the image down to just the mini-background, and fit an image to it >.>;; It's oversimplified I know, but I fail at complication. I can make one for you if you like, I just need an image. *Subtexts*}

[Vex]

Nooooo... Not another one!

I'm not even going to bother with Bite over the Holidays... Or next summer...

[hairbear]

Dec 3, 2009 22:29:15 GMT -8 Vex said:

Nooooo... Not another one!

I'm not even going to bother with Bite over the Holidays... Or next summer...

Awww... I have mifi (with Verizon wireless) for when I'm gone from home. I was shocked, it loads almost as fast as my roadrunner service.