akhra

🏴🚩⚧️⚢♾️ΘΔ⚪

  • &🍯she/her 🐲xie/xer 🦡e/em/es

wenchcoat system:
🍯 Akhra (or Melli to disambiguate), ratel.
🐲 Rhiannon, drangolin.
🦡 Lenestre, American badger.

unless tagged or otherwise obvious, assume 🍯🐲🦡 in chorus; even when that's not quite accurate, we will always be in consensus. address collectively as Akhra (she/her), or as wenchcoat (she/her or plural).

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🧇@Reba-Rabbit


Discord (mention cohost, I get spam follows)
@akhra
Discord server ostensibly for the Twitch channel but with Cohost in hospice y'know what let's just link it here
discord.gg/AF57qnub3D

Inkyrius
@Inkyrius

Why are 88×31s that size, it's a bit of an odd size to pick? When you Google that question people often mention Geocities requiring a link back to their main page, with the button asset being 88×31, but someone must've still chosen it.

The only technical thing that might be an answer I can think of is that 88×31×24 bits is extremely close to 8 KiB – when limited to 24-bit colour the only closer value is 2 pixels larger e.g. 91×30 or 78×35 – however as I mentioned this is assuming full 24-bit colour (and also no compression), and at this time most images would've been GIFs right, which use indexed colour. I can't actually think of any reason that an image / animation frame would be limited to 8 KiB, so this is probably just a coincidence.

Perhaps it really was just a random artistic decision? Still don't know why they chose that over a more round size or aspect ratio, but oh well.


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in reply to @Inkyrius's post:

interesting... I associate them with the Netscape and MSIE compatibility/download link buttons that were strewn everywhere during the Web 1.0 browser wars; but I can't say firsthand whether that was before or after the Geocities use.

if I were to guess, it probably had something to do with common border/padding values on tables (or frames, if they were introduced post-96?), yielding more "normal" dimensions when those were added. I definitely remember doing things like that.