For those journals having 100 readers, it adds up already, with only ten icons. What I don't understand is how icon 50 could be putting any more strain on bandwidth than does icon 1, assuming that each is the maximum size of 40K, and only one of them will be pulled for any given post, however many readers may summon it.
I have imagined a LiveJournal tool of some sort, which would save your journal and comment pages, if you wished, keep a cache of recent friends pages, operate as a client from which you could post and store drafts of unfinished posts and replies, etc. It wouldn't be difficult to have such a tool store all the icons of the people on your friends list right on your hard drive (just about everyone has a huge drive these days) and then display them in the posts as they were loaded. Only icons of people not on your friends list would have to be loaded from the site. That way, icons would use a much smaller percentage of the site's bandwidth.
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Date: 2003-11-04 07:20 pm (UTC)I have imagined a LiveJournal tool of some sort, which would save your journal and comment pages, if you wished, keep a cache of recent friends pages, operate as a client from which you could post and store drafts of unfinished posts and replies, etc. It wouldn't be difficult to have such a tool store all the icons of the people on your friends list right on your hard drive (just about everyone has a huge drive these days) and then display them in the posts as they were loaded. Only icons of people not on your friends list would have to be loaded from the site. That way, icons would use a much smaller percentage of the site's bandwidth.