Avatar file size limit

[bluestarultor]

PMs are less, I think. Because I know I ran into a brick wall when I tried to send someone my MMO weapon notes last year. I managed to delete a few sentences and make it fit, but I had much less planned at the time.

Either that, or I just have no good concept of what 10k characters looks like.

[Kim]

No, PMs have a smaller character limit.

[shiney]

For reference the entire forum history in .gzip format compresses to about 200 megs give or take, as memory serves. So yeah we're a long ways off.

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by TDK

It would be 60 billion characters, and with about 860,000 posts currently, assuming, perhaps rather generously, that each post is an average of 100 characters, that's 86 million bytes or 8.6 gigs...So tha'ts kinda far off, but that's not taking into account long posts (or short posts).

There's also the html, colored text, and just the bytes taken up by the posting system and stuff. I can only assume it takes more bytes to store a post than just the number of bytes equivalent to the characters they take up.

Check your math, perhaps? Let's for now ignore the base two aspect of bytes and keep it in base ten for simplicity.

860,000 x 100 = 86,000,000 characters, going along with your numbers
Using the old standard of 1 character = 1 byte, that's thus 86 million bytes, as you said.
86,000,000 / 1000 = 86,000 Kilobytes; 86000/1000 = 86 Megabytes; 86 / 1000 = 0.086 GB, not 8.6

It's slightly less, of course, using 1024 per conversion.

On top of that, note that all data such as avatar, signatures, page format, posts, etc. are contained in PHP and SQL files. And that this information only needs to be stored ONCE regardless of how many times it appears in a thread or how many different users are requesting pages. This means that while each individual page rendered by your browser may seem to have a lot of text to contribute to the total much of it is in fact only drawn together when a page is requested by a browser connecting a user to the server.

It is true that adding color tags and storing the avatars and signature pictures will bump that up slightly, as will the slight overhead of needing identifiers and keys for the database, but it's not going to be as dramatic as a person my at first assume and drastically reduces the storage needs overall.

That seems pretty reasonable, then, that archiving the text aspects with the images we have uploaded that we come in around 200 MB.

[rpgdemon]

I'mma upload a ten gig file. THEN WHAT?

[Ecks]

The character limit is 50000. I know this because the last time I updated OH NOES, I had to split the update into two parts, largely because of said limit.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

I'mma upload a ten gig file. THEN WHAT?

They'll ban you a few days from now when it finishes.

[shiney]

Or, death.

[RickZarber]

What was the previous avatar limit? I honestly can't remember.

[synkr0nized]

20 KB, I believe? Maybe only 15.