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I have been struggling to upload avatar.

notice some folks got it bigger than others.

the max is said to be 16K.

so what size (dimensions as in 0 x 0 ) would that be?

Thanks in advance.

I think it is resized to fit accordingly

From everyone's personal information page:

How small, dimensions wise, an image has to be to be smaller than 16K varies.

My avatar is exactly 130x160, is a gif, and is 8289 bytes. If you have software that allows it, save as either gif or jpeg, and reduce the quality until it is below the max file size.

If you can't do that, I can do it for you

There is no direct relationship between the size of the image file and the dimensions of the displayed image.

When a file is produced using Photoshop, for example, that program can put masses and masses of non-image data into the file. I.e. a small (in dimensions, XxY) image may be large (in number of bytes in the image file).

Conversely, with some formats of image file, the file itself may be small, but the image area large.

E.g. this is just 3,081 bytes, but is 448x448:

And 383x419, but only 5,494 bytes:
(Note that, in the above, ALL the lines are straight, and the squares are square.)

I was talking from the perspective of someone wanting to post a avatar. They have a given image. Making that image smaller (dimensions) is one way to make the file size smaller. Thus the initial question in the thread. And my answer: that there is no specific dimensions to make an image small enough for a certain file size. It depends on the image, and the file format, and the image quality. Or, in short, it varies.

...that's one of the weirdest and cleverest optical illusions I've ever seen