Notice! About Your Signatures And Avatars - READ. THIS CAN BE AFFECTING YOUR ACCOUNT

prodigy

Oct 25 2004, 03:52 AM

We have noticed many more users unfortunately exceeding their bandwidth and thus not being able to allow any acces for themselves or others to their own sites. We have also noticed that their has been a large increase in the number of page views at trap17 from search engines ..etc (which is good for this community).

However we now have come to the conclusion that users linking their avatars but most likely image signatures are losing a great deal of bandwidth with the amount of page views totalling over 50,000 views per day. Whenever one of these many guests loads a page containig your signature or avatar linked to an image on you account, you suffer. And bulk views increase the amount of your bandwidth used considerably.

So we advise you to change your signatures to text links or host your signature images on image hosting servers, this will be for you benefit.

All members post sites for free image hosting here, so other can upload their files to these.

thankyou

zip_mc

Oct 25 2004, 04:10 AM

Also members

Upgrading things such as IPB uses alot of bandwidth

so if you have jsut upgraded IPB or somthing and run out of bandwidth, dont ask for an package upgrade wait till the end of the month.. as you may not even need it.

boyCradle

Oct 25 2004, 10:03 AM

Upload your files at http://www.photobucket.com/

Bash

Oct 25 2004, 10:55 AM

here's a nice, quick, and easy image hosting site:

http://www.imageshack.us/

Triple X

Oct 25 2004, 11:07 AM

PB and IS are both good.

I use a freewbes site to host my sigs/avatars and an affiliate.

Its not like freewebs is good for anything else...

zip_mc

Oct 25 2004, 11:26 AM

freewebs wont always work

somtimes people cant see the images..

or at least non of my friends could

Zenchi

Oct 25 2004, 11:57 AM

About upgrading things: If you're concerned about that as a problem, simply wait until the end of the month. (Now, or the 30th-31st.)

Photobucket, I beleive has a limit (at least I think I read that.) of something. (Can't remember it.. I'll take a look after I get home from school today.)

JaVe

Oct 25 2004, 03:33 PM

I've seen links to imgbucket but doesnt work *BLEEP*. Imageshack however is the best! I've tried picgoo, but after a while it just goes down!

X3r0X

Oct 27 2004, 11:05 AM

QUOTE(Bash @ Oct 25 2004, 10:55 AM)

here's a nice, quick, and easy image hosting site:

http://www.imageshack.us/

Yeah, thats what i host all of mine on

But really, dont worry abut the bandidth limit when hosting with Photobucket because i read it was 500mb and even though this site gets 1000000 of visitors i doubt a gif or jpg file would go over (unless its over 450x150 id say)

Becca

Nov 4 2004, 06:25 PM

I don't do that no more.....

I'm clever...and yeah imageshack.us does rock......But sometimes they do delete your images that you upload....for some reason... o.O

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callumms

Feb 11 2008, 05:54 PM

Photoshop is the best for me. Most people just want people to visit their sites

Plenoptic

Aug 19 2006, 02:42 PM

I never thought that could happen before. Then again I never really had problems with Bandwidth either because my site never really got big. Luckily I don't use images in my signature at the moment anyway because otherwise I'd have some trouble. Maybe I'll have to start hosting my images on Photobucket or something becuase I put my images up on other forums I go to because I make them for people at my clan's forum and they all use it. In fact one of them is a banner. I might have to change the location if it becomes a problem.

BuffaloHELP

Aug 19 2006, 07:36 AM

Review this post http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?s=&...ost&p=31415 by OpaQue.

I have noticed more and more signatures are either missing an image or getting too large!

Trap17 forum gallery is very suitable for holding your signature images. Please, please use it! What better way to show your excellent sigs with Trap17 forum gallery hosting. When I find your signature missing an image I will remove it from your sig. Forum sig is a privilege and not a right. Do use them and let no image be broken or showing.

This leads me to my next issue: do not, and I repeat do not exceed your signature total height. I have been sending out messages to those who have extremely huge and cluttered signatures. The forum will allow you to place quick and useful links/images but it is not intended to "advertise" all your hobbies, links, quotes etc. I would love to see all your sigs. But do use some measure of caution.

I am getting really worried that your post is short and your sig is super huge. So this is your warning. Either make your every post as long as your sig or limit the total area of your sig. Please make sure that your post is not short, brief or one liner.

If you feel you want to reorganize your signature but not quite sure how to take advantage of board's bbcodes, please feel free to PM me or any moderators/members.

Thank you.

jlhaslip

Mar 3 2006, 09:38 PM

QUOTE

Bump!
Just a reminder...

bucksta

Jan 7 2006, 02:16 AM

i use imageshack for image hosting. its pretty good. i uploaded all my sigs on there. also, imagedump is good. i tried it and it is a decent image hosting server. thanks for the tip. nobody wants to lose their bandwith, especially me with a future bandwith of an estimated 50 people per day when completed.

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