As you would have read in the Announcements thread, I have taken the restrictions off the avatar sizes. It seemed to be causing issues because of the resizing.
But can I ask you all to try to keep avatars down to a reasonable size - both in download and width/height.
Clovis8 - yours is 4.5MBs to download. That's pretty big for people with slow connections. I myself had an animated gif at one stage so I'm not against them generally but over about a meg for an avatar is a little too much.
Gman1050 - I love your avatar but could you resize it down just a bit from 270px wide to 200px maybe.
I'm not picking on you two, you just happen to be on this page when I'm posting so you're within reach. I really like both your avatars, just trying to keep things loading quickly for everyone.
Thanks