New Site Questions

I just think it's kind of silly. If someone puts up a picture that's less than 800x600 to show a problem, no one can see what's in the picture because it's too small. But to identify ourselves we get a 9.8 kb avatar icon (9.8 kb!!!) and a signature that's less than 326x100.

again, its all about making things faster. The bigger the avatars, the bigger the sig photos, the longer the page takes to load. 20 posts --- 100k avatar on each and a 200k sig pic on each means 6mb download before any of the other stuff gets loaded. Try bringing that page up on a phone