You know what would rule?

[666fast]

If people stopped using those giant .gif's in ther signatures. I know most of you are on cable connections and don't even notice. I'm on 56k and I do notice.
Some pages take far too long to load. Some never load. Many times I sit here waiting for 5 minutes before anything appears. Then I'm able to read the whole page and move onto the next page before they are done loading. It's very irritating.
It's making JW extremely slow to browse. Even posting a reply takes a long time.
As cool as some of them are, it's just too much.

Please please please! Take them out or at least make them smaller! It would be greatly appreciated if you did so! Or just use a simple jpeg, those aren't a big deal.

I'm not saying I'll stop coming to JW, that'll never happen. But making them smaller or removing them would help a ton!

Otherwise, could a feature be implemented to block them all? At another forum I visit, I can block all avatars in my profile. If the same could be done for sig pics, I'd love whoeve does it forever in a purely heterosexual way!!!

Pleae help a brother out!








Don't trust whitey :lol:

[Vansquish]

Sounds good to me man, that's part of the reason I only have an avatar and no sig. When I go home and use my parent's 56k connection I have enough time to go grab a snack while some of the pages load.

[bmagni]

yeah i support that... it must be really irritating and a big lose of time...

[deth]

hey sorry, didnt realize it was effecting you that much..i'll work on it, but i know some browsers like maxthon have the option to block selected images types such as .gifs. hope that helps

EDIT:
sig removed to try to shrink

[DeMoN]

I cant agree with you more! I use slow internet connection when I am in my country for vacations, I try to get to JW, but I get so irritated by the big images people put on their sig or their animate gifs

That is why I use black and white mostly on my pics (less colors, less size depending on compression you use)

[ARMAN]

:( just changed my sig :oops: Is it too big? 119kb?

[stracing]

i've always been complaining but no listened to me. i'm just a ghost to you all

[dingo]

I am also on 56K and really don't have a problem...this site loads very fast for me. What I do sometimes is let the page load so that all the posts on that page are viewable and then click 'stop' in the browser so that the remaining pics don't load.....just an idea you could try. :wink:

[Anonymous]

Its not a problem for me, but if everyone wants them removed then its not a problem with me, mine is 30KB BTW if its a problem to anyone then i'll remove it.... having tried to access JW on 56k i can appreciate the problem :D

[shaikhmoiz]

mine is 30KB BTW if its a problem to anyone then i'll remove it....

I'm sure 30kb isn't a problem at all.. its the buggers with 1mb animated gif's :twisted:

[Anonymous]

mine is 30KB BTW if its a problem to anyone then i'll remove it....

I'm sure 30kb isn't a problem at all.. its the buggers with 1mb animated gif's :twisted:

Cool well your sig is certainly always interesting, particularly the awesome links you put in it :wink: , if anyone hasn't clicked it i would recommend it if your need a laugh :D

[Fleischmann]

Althoughyeah,that irittates me too. Even with my DSL connection downloading 300kb's gifs can be iritating. And amazing how often I have to clean my temp internet files because of this.

My avatar and sig take up 20kb's. I'm sure no harm would be done if everybody was alike.

[666fast]

Like I said guys, the pics are fine. They load up instantly, it's the folks with big gifs.
Thanks for removing yours Deth, yours was one of the worst! LOL

Thanks for understanding everyone!


I agree, there should be a ban on images in signatures. Hate'm


When JW first started, I recommened not allowing sig pics at all! As you can see, I lost. :lol:

[BADMIHAI]

As you can see, I lost



But you still got this awesome sig:

http://img108.exs.cx/img108/6352/Clipboard5.jpg

If you want me to remove mine I will...
:|

[DeMoN]

:( just changed my sig :oops: Is it too big? 119kb?

its an improovement, but compare yours with myne. Myne is longer and taller

10.88 KB

[chipanggo]

sorry. i know i am one of those who have a huge animated sig.

i've ditched it now. i'll be making a new and much more smaller one soon. :)

[666fast]

As you can see, I lost



But you still got this awesome sig:

http://img108.exs.cx/img108/6352/Clipboard5.jpg

If you want me to remove mine I will...
:|

LOL, my sig is not only hilarious, it's tiny, so it loads up right away.
Your sig is fine, it's small enough that it loads quickly. I'm talking about big ones like Deths and. Those were the killers.

[deth]

mine wasn't THAT big..they were about 250kb...other ppl are running around w/ 700-1000kb sigs

[DeMoN]

yes, this one is the biggest i have seen so far

HALF a MB
http://www.deathshandshake.com/pics/Haggav.gif

Very funny though I must admit!

[blah]

What is this load time you all speak off?

[ZfrkS62]

yes, this one is the biggest i have seen so far

HALF a MB
http://www.deathshandshake.com/pics/Haggav.gif

Very funny though I must admit!

i'm going to see what i can do to get the size down a little bit. If i can figure out ImageReady i'll try to cut out a few frames. Minacious got it into gif format for me so i don't want to trouble him too much if i can help it. Please be patient with me guys. i'm a slow program learner :lol:
sorry to all you 56K guys!

[dingo]

What is this load time you all speak off?

The time it takes for a page to appear from the time you click the link.