Avatar selection

**TosaInu** · 03-26-2005, 21:43

-1999 echelon board: no avatars, no signatures.

-2000 another PERL (?) board: no avatars, no signatures.

-2000 a PHP board. A few avatars used in a ranking system. 1,000 posts [b]could[/u] give a custom avatar. Text signatures, but no pictures.

-2000-2002 UBB PERL. Idem avatar and signature system. I recall that pictures up to the size of a stamp got allowed. This is the first forum that got backed up and the topics are imported into this one.

-2002. Watchtower created and one of the first topics was about avatars. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=23578 There were a few other topics and opinions differed. Staff had to implement a compromise, but this could only be used after the change to Ikonboard 2002-2004. It still used the rankingsystem like in the previous systems, but a user could select an avatar from a pool after 500 posts. There were some specific accounts like clan that could select an avatar right away.
The no sig pic/stamp size sig pic policy was dropped too. 10 kb, no sound and size restrictions were arbitrarily set by me and haven't been changed since (except some measures to enforce it).
-2003 added a custom avatar skin to Ikonboard. People could choose between system icons or upload any picture.
-2003+ the 500 posts requirement was dropped, but there was protest. The increasing pool system was proposed and used in 2004 with this board.

Uploading avatars is currently not possible at all due to this server configuration.
I don't know whether I can make a custom avatar skin for this board.
Dropping the increasing pool system and making all avatars available at once is possible. Just agree about it.

**Craterus** · 03-27-2005, 21:24

when do you get the option of greek general avatars?

**TosaInu** · 03-28-2005, 09:47

400 posts Craterus.

**player1** · 03-28-2005, 12:29

Sooo, it's a loooong way to go.

Pity I'm such poor spamer.

P.S.
Anyway when Roman units aprear (like Hastati)?

**Craterus** · 03-28-2005, 13:59

400? ouch i'm a long way off and there the ones i want because of my username... lol i'll have to stay active i guess..

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 03-28-2005, 16:19

Originally Posted by Craterus

400? ouch i'm a long way off and there the ones i want because of my username... lol i'll have to stay active i guess..

32 posts per day

You'll be there in no time.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 03-29-2005, 04:30

You will get there, even if your post rate slows down you will be there a lot sooner than you think.

**Navaros** · 04-04-2005, 14:36

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Uploading avatars is currently not possible at all due to this server configuration.
I don't know whether I can make a custom avatar skin for this board.
Dropping the increasing pool system and making all avatars available at once is possible. Just agree about it.

i really hope you get that working. that is by far the coolest avatar feature to have. but once it's working you should make it so that one needs 1000 posts or more to choose a custom avatar just so they don't become an epidemic

**therother** · 04-04-2005, 18:50

Originally Posted by Navaros

i really hope you get that working. that is by far the coolest avatar feature to have. but once it's working you should make it so that one needs 1000 posts or more to choose a custom avatar just so they don't become an epidemic

I agree that custom avatars are nice addition to a site. I had a quick gander over at the vBulletin modification forums to see if anything over there would help. It seems that someone did attempt a off-board custom avatar hack for v3, but it apparently ran into problems. There doesn't seem, despite a fair bit of interest, to be a follow up attempt.

I suppose it's possible that someone will release a hack to do the trick, Jelsoft will add the functionality in a new version (plenty of other boards already have it), or the host will allow uploads. So all is not lost.