Lack of new people is killing the backroom and the entire forum

[Andres]

Having the admin using two sorts of accounts is confusing

People get a default by creating a new account.

And that's annoying. It's annoying to have to go to your settings and switch this or that on or off to view the forum how you want. You undervalue simplicity. One avatar. Size is preset. Chose between a) predefined b) upload custom. Easy, simple, forum looks good, regardless of your settings.

Default should be no avatar instead of everybody who doesn't chose an avatar having the same pic/avatar. Every new member looking the same is confusing.

Users ask totally different things.

We're not talking about the desiderata of the occasional oldtimer, we're talking about making this forum more accessible for new members by making it user-friendly. Simple and "just like any other forum you're used to" is being user friendly.

[TosaInu]

Have different browsers open to test things and have to do that now with a useraccount: just avatars is not the only to do here.

It's set automatically when creating an account, so people don't have to do anything for it.

I don't underestimate simplicity, but there are other needs too.

The simplicity displayed there isn't available:

Chose between a) predefined b) upload custom. Easy, simple, forum looks good, regardless of your settings.

It's impossible to keep those two seperate and that's exactly what we want (now).

It's not occasional imho, and I'm not going to brush excisting users expectations aside.


We'll see in a couple of weeks from now who of the active users is using what.

[Andres]

Have different browsers open to test things and have to do that now with a useraccount: just avatars is not the only to do here.

Sorry, it wasn't my intention to annoy you (it was mean as poking fun at you).

Anyway, to visualise what I mean:

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They all look the same.