D: Oh, well that sucks. I really thought that it would be smart enough to recognize and set picture resolutions, and then scale down images that are bigger than the alloted 200x200. I guess this is not the case. I'll go ahead and set it back to how it was before. (I thought I'd be super handy dandy and implore an easy fix. I guess it just wasn't so easy. XD)
Unfortunately, our server configuration appears to not allow for php to retrieve information from external files* -- this means that the board has no way of knowing what dimensions files from external URLs are, so it automatically resizes things to 200x200. Auto-resizing should still work for uploaded avatars.
* This is probably because it's a security issue for pieces of code that may not thoroughly check the contents of external files because using them, opening them up for a variety of bad things. While I believe our forum's code is pretty secure in this sense, since we're on a shared server, our host chooses to have the option disabled just in case.
After talking to our awesome host, it seems we can get the option modified so the info retrieval is allowed for us alone, so the avatar autosizing may work soon! Just hang tight. :3
Okay. Auto-resizing of avatars is now turned on and should actually work. Wee. Only took like three hours of making support think I'm an idiot, lolololol. x3
Kiri, you are the Souls god. XD *grovels at your feet*