No Thanks Removal of GiF's?

After spending the last few days and the staff also chasing after users with gif's too big...

RoxasvsRiku and other staff have commented we should remove them completely from sigs. For this, I'm asking for your opinion on it.

 

Do we really? Can it just be limited to one instead?

 

... it's not the gif's fault, really.

I'm half and half.

Leaning more towards scrapping them all.

 

I'm partial with this; Yes, gif's are annoying when your internet is running slow or is naturally like that, but I haven't really heard too many complaints on them. Maybe I just haven't been looking for them, but I doubt most people's internet connection is slow enough where gifs slow down the webpage.

It doesn't really effect since I don't plan on having a gif in my sig anytime soon, but without complaints I find restricting them to be pointless.

 

I thought you guys reduced the sig file size or something. :/

Anyway I love my smacking lips gif, I'd be miserable without it. I say you just tighten the limit instead.

 

I know there are still dialup users out there and they may have problems with large gifs.

I think people should be limited to 1 gif and 1 gif only. Either have it for your Avvy or your Sig. Not both.

But that's just my views about it.

 

I thought more on it.

I don't think they should be banned.4.ever.

 

Maybe just limit to one in a sig.

 

They really need to go...

The limit sig file size is 500kb. Duel Wielder, your top gif alone is 3mb. Not only is your sig violating the rules, it is slowing the hell out of my computer and it's loading time. It's hard to find gifs that are under 500kb in the first place, so it only makes since to take them out completely like we did with the YouTube videos.

 

You guys reading forum news would help with the chase.

One: ONE GIF PER SIG!!!

Two: It's limited to 500 kb.

Sorry, I just had to say it cause I posted a reminder about it twice now. Those are the rules currently.

 

Ah, 500kb limit? I don't remember reading that, just the limit to one per sig... =\

Well, if that's the case, lol, then that should've been in the first post to begin with, don'tcha think?

Down with gifs.

 

I'm sorry. I didn't know what size it was. I apologize for any inconvenience. I honestly had no clue. Should eastercat get this message about the size since that's who I got it from?

 

I think we should remove them from sigs definitely.

Avatars shouldn't be a problem though.

In any case, I agree on the suggestion.

 

Meh, don't matter, I got rid of mine.XD But, it would be good to get rid of all the overly used GIFs. People be having three GIFs on Username.>_> It would be good to pull some laws down, limit it to only sig or avvy, and only one.

 

I am split on this one, I think so mostly cause I know people on here are having there load time slowed up by gifs, and they do get annoying when they are too big. I think a smaller file size, but I am leaning towards getting rid of them.

 

Actually, we can completely ban gif's from sigs through editing the forum.

=/

 

You'll cause an uproar if you do man, just make it where you can only use one, in either sig or avvy. And it can't be oversized.

 

Yeah, the avatar gifs are not an issue. The main problem is that the sig space is basicly unlimited in file size, so people think they can just plop any 5mb gif in there. And according to these responces, not many people even knew about the 500kb limit size to begin with.

 

I think it should just be 1 Gif since some people actually work on their own gifs and it's not that bad as long as the gifs aren't too big. You'd have to be on tremendous slow dial up to be that bothered by one gif in each posting and not everyone uses gifs any way so at most if everyone obeyed that rule, there might be 5 to 8 gifs on the whole page. There are more than that on several websites.

 

Oh gawd I feel like a n00b but what is GiF's?