Avatars have been temporarily disabled - I missed a compression configuration when the revamped site launched in December, and we've almost blown our bandwidth for the month. They will be re-enabled on Feb 1st.
Do the embedded pictures which arent offsite also add? I use offsite photos for that reason. Maybe local uploaded pictures are also increasing bandwidth?
Absolutely. Main issue was though that I had missed turning gzip back on, which compresses the regular HTML, CSS and JavaScript responses - so they were chewing bandwidth something horrendous. Avatars were "low hanging fruit" to try and reduce some bandwidth usage for the next week and a bit.
To be honest, avatars are over rated anyway. Is there an option in the profiles for users to turn them off completely? I might go with this option anyway, the forum looks more business like without them clogging up the screen for my mind.
I have just joined April 4th and the AVATAR I use on another site is a jpeg, but I had to put it into PAINT and reduce it to the allowed 90 x 90 Cheers. _JOHNLGALT.
Celebrating the new forum by adding an avatar - finally after 5+ years lol. Its a Birthday cake I made from scratch for my young fella.