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# Oh come on
As I said, I wasn't having a dig at you at all. There's been a lot of file-size Naziism for quite a while now and it gets on my tits a bit. If they're going to be Nazis, they may as well be Nazis about the right thing.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:49, archived)
# i'm all against file size complaints
you'll notice that all my pictures are over 50kb, save it for the monkeys that post the 600 pixel wide doodles of their WoW characters in crayon.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:52, archived)
# This, this and this
(waxdart hello., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:54, archived)
# As I say
in terms of bandwidth I don't give a monkey's toss if pictures are at 250k. I do sometimes get bothered by sloppy optimising because it's just laziness -- but the main point here is that I was trying to explain this to someone a bit earlier, and yours was high up on the board so I thought I'd try again.

I'm not fussed about file-sizes unless it's insanely overlarge and could be a tenth of the size. (And forcing this to be 5k would make it look like shit.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:55, archived)
# Erm no,
it is set at 50kb. Therefore, anything under or on it is fine. It is a perfectly acceptable limit under which pretty much any static image will fit.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:55, archived)
# The guy who wrote the FAQ
has said a few times that he regrets putting an actual number on it, and that the point was that pictures should be no larger than necessary.

That's my only point.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:56, archived)
# that's like Hitler saying he regretted writing Mein Kampf


tht's my only point*

*there isn't one
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:58, archived)
# don't you worry fella, I understand
*pats on back*

it's more a matter of hosting bandwidth in my mind, I agree that people should try to lower size as much as is reasonable possible, though people can get a little carried away in the enforcing of such netiquette. Email fwd's with word documents containing mahusive jpg's or even worse bmp's piss me off more.

Best to keep the intertubes as empty as possible ready for when something more necessarily fat comes through. Like watching telly on BBC i-player. And 'the you tube' :p
(I helped save b3ta! doph no time like the precedent, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 16:19, archived)