REQ: Mod to limit Avatar Size

Greetings all,

I'm looking for a mod that will limit the size of the avatar (by width/height and filesize).  Does such a creature exist?

(and if not, is anyone interested if I make such a mod?)

StarDust wrote: Actually it does. Avatar file size can be defined from the Web Wiz Forum Control Panel under Upload Settings Avatar image width/height can be defined from the skin css file, search for this: .avatar, #avatar There you can define all.

Well...  yea.  I can limit the size of what they upload, but I want to limit size of avatars they host themselves.

The main problem is that I have like 4 guys (out of about 2000) who insist on changing avatars all the time, and it's often animated gifs that are several MB in size and their servers are SLLLLOOOOOWWWW so it slows down the loading of topics they post in.

so a guy might make his avatar a 300 x 200 animated GIF that's 5MB.  The CSS file will just resize something to the size I make it.  I'd like to warn them (particularly when the file size is large) ahead of time.

StarDust wrote: When i use external avatars dimensioned more than defined in the CSS file, it also gets re-dimensioned. About the external avatar file size, can this be controlled anyway? As far as I know this is not possible. And about the external avatar file types, did you tried defining the avatar file types from upload settings? I have never done this so can't figure out :( External avatars means avatars that are uploaded and hosted on image/file sharing servers and not uploaded to your forum.

I think that you're missing what I actually want.  I want to be able to tell someone they can't use an avatar because it's too big.  I'm trying to reduce the bandwidth on a page.  If someone has a 500 x 500 image, it still gets loaded to the browser, then the browser will resize it (because of the CSS settings).