Originally Posted by Pointfreak!
If speed is the concern, that could & probably would be slower...and I doubt Randy wants to rely on a 3rd party to provide any content for his board anyway.
Why does everyone think Avatars are these massive bandwidth hogging entities anyway? It's just a small jpg or bmp. Look around the screen in front of you...FT is already filled with graphics.
I don't think you follow what I ment. You would be responsable for providing a URL to your avitar (link) and the avatar would not be uploaded to FT. This would only degrade the speed of loading the avatar on your computer if the connectin to the URL you provided was slow. Manyy BBS work this way with non uploaded avatars in order to save bandwith and storage space. It also allows for larger file size.