Try this website for compressing your images: https://tinypng.com/ I took a snapshot and compressed this for a test, it's about 340kb and looks pretty good as a thumbnail. Someone can have it if they like...
Is this done? I grabbed this screenshot from a video on Facebook because the 12yo in me couldn't stop giggling. I submit this for consideration.
At the risk of sounding incredibly over-dramatic and cheesy, I told myself back in 2011/2012-ish that I would keep the black and white tattered flag avatar and would refrain from uploading anything orange and white until we were officially "back" as a program. I think this season has warranted a change. If IP or any of the mods here can make this happen it would be appreciated. I cannot for the life of me get it re-sized to under 4.9 KB and still make it look halfway decent.
I've changed avatars again, but I would love to know what program/format IP uses to keep that quality at 4.9 KB. My best guess is some sort of sorcery.