Please remove the: “user_profile_sheen.png” effect.

For people who don’t know:
VGC has a semi-transparent triangle that it places on top of our user profile pictures.



It’s: dated, ugly and adds unnecessary http requests.
Please remove it.

Didn't notice til you mentioned it.

Huh. I never noticed that, but looking at it now, it doesn't seem to improve avatars and does, in fact, hurt some avatars. Thus I voice my support for this request.

What? Two years in here and I've never noticed that XD.

It makes you look cool!

That is why I an voicing my complaint.

It harms our avatars and it will reduce performance, especially on mobile.
And it looks dated.

Yup.
If VGC wants to keep the effect, do it in CSS.
That way we can reduce our HTTP requests and gain the ability to view avatars.

To the person who asked why browsers take up more RAM than some games: this.
Chrome and Firefox (as well as other browsers) need to cache all these little images so we don't spend all day re-downloading them.

I think it should be easy with a linear-gradient of sorts in the CSS? I'm not exactly a CSS expert, but I remember doing some effects with the linear and radial gradient effects. I just prefer Java programming tbh.

Heh, I'll do it in Codepen just to have fun and remember those HTML/CSS/js days.

Holy crap you just blew my mind. Yeah, I don't see a purpose in this.