Thread: Please NO flash animation...

Please NO flash animation...
Simple presentation is what makes a BBS forum attractive. The plethora of hi-res grapics images in sigs and avatars are more than enough to create a drag on bandwidth.

Originally Posted by ActiveMatx

If I wont this contest...
I could...add some... flash animation to the webpage.

aw jhb, you're no fun anymore.

AC scraps his plans to make the first movie-length animated avatar

XD

Originally Posted by Atomic Cow

AC scraps his plans to make the first movie-length animated avatar

Yeah, I know. I'm turning into a crotchety, old crank these days.

Originally Posted by Atomic Cow

aw jhb, you're no fun anymore.

Those little moving emoticons are also animated. Can you get rid of them too?

Get rid of these icons? ---->

Did someone say Flash animation?

...Itching to get Studio 8 up and rockin'...

Originally Posted by Chu

Those little moving emoticons are also animated. Can you get rid of them too?

Get rid of these icons? ---->

You can. Click on Profile at the top of every page,
look for Preferences about halfway down the page,
set Always enable Smilies: to No,
click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page.

strange we can't have flash animation, but he hasn't pointed out that I promiss world peace if I win...
and yet I have no idea what this has to do with anything...

Atomic Cow, you are too sharp! I completely forgot about that option.

Maybe only let moderators have animated avatars? I do like Atomic Cow's avatar.

Originally Posted by Chu

Atomic Cow, you are too sharp! I completely forgot about that option.

Maybe only let moderators have animated avatars? I do like Atomic Cow's avatar.

If animated avatars were to be banned (which is dumb IMO), then nobody should be able to use them.
That's the whole point...

AC's avatar isn't flash...

AC's avatar is merely a animated gif. Flash on the otherhand is usually quite big, which is evil for our dial up buddies. *CoughRicksCough*

what does it matter what file type it is, i thought there was a restriction on all pictures already via size in kb?

Read my post carefully. I said nothing about banning animated avatars. As someone noted there is already a size restriction on avatars and sig pix. I merely pointed out that the board does not need flash animations IMO. Most every board I see that has them is way slow, even on a direct internet connection. They add nothing to the information available here, and make life a bit tedious for us cromagnons still on dial up.

Originally Posted by Astven

If animated avatars were to be banned (which is dumb IMO), then nobody should be able to use them.
That's the whole point...

NovoMundum, If you win and we get world peace, what's to complain about.

Originally Posted by NovoMundum

strange we can't have flash animation, but he hasn't pointed out that I promiss world peace if I win...

haha, I hope there's nothing to complain about...

But how are we gonna make money if there's no more conflict?!

Deep if you think about it...

crap there goes all my motivation for learning how to use flash animation.

Well, he didn't win so maybe we're safe for now.

How many people are on dial up these days? I would bet it is less than 20%

I'm sure it's alot more than 20%...cable and DSL isnt available everywhere, so alot of people have no other choice than dial-up...