Avatar selection

[therother]

Ah, I'm talking about a fifth option: seeing a maximum of one avatar, with the url avatar taking precedence over the system. So you want to see url avatars, or their system avatar if they don't have a url avatar, but you don't want to see both at the same time. AFAICT that's not currently possible via the options.

Edit: Yes, I know I'm being picky, but if we are going to have url avatars of ~185 pixels in height, along with system avatars of ~75 pixels, we're only going to be able to fit a few posts in a screen, even if they are just one liners.

[TosaInu]

Ah, I'm talking about a fifth option: seeing a maximum of one avatar, with the url avatar taking precedence over the system. So you want to see url avatars, or their system avatar if they don't have a url avatar, but you don't want to see both at the same time. AFAICT that's not currently possible via the options.

I guess that's what I ask too. Use systemavatar instead then, use a generic custom one (a smileyface?), leave it empty or indeed add yet another toggle.

[therother]

I guess that's what I ask too. Use systemavatar instead then, use a generic custom one (a smileyface?), leave it empty or indeed add yet another toggle.

Hmm, would it be possible to automatically set the url avatar to be the system avatar until people customise it? That way you could turn off system avatars and only view custom avatars.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Woo-Hoo I get to be a guinea pig! I have turned off my avatar to attempt to only have 1 it seems to work on my computer, but my frined has not been able to see anything on his. I am not sure what is wrong. Thanks for resizing the image and whatnot it looks great!

[TosaInu]

Hmm, would it be possible to automatically set the url avatar to be the system avatar until people customise it? That way you could turn off system avatars and only view custom avatars.

Yes should, and I think that would be a good way.

Uesugi Kenshin
Displaying Url avatars is off by default, guests and not logged in members are not able to see them. Your friend has to log in as well and toggle DUA (Display Url Avatar) in his UserCP.

If you want to see Url Avatars only, please just disable viewing Avatars and do not delete the avatar from your profile. When this is done en masse, we are actually deleting the fun for those who do like the system.

[TosaInu]

Hello,

Changed code a bit and now the systemavatar is used when someone doesn't have an urlavatar. People who have Warning_Level 3 can no longer show the avatar, nor can users demoted back to the low privilege account.

[TosaInu]

Uesugi Kenshin,

Post a one liner please without displaying your signature (option while posting).

[tibilicus]

Er I have only just realised that you need a certain amount of posts to get a new Avatar. Im going to be here a while then I have only done about 24..................

[therother]

Absolutely excellent job! Just been surfing around a bit with system avatars off, and it works perfectly.

It seems Zero Tolerance isn't the only guy who codes fast!

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I was not suggesting we get rid of system ones, just want to show only my new one. It looks great by the way.

[therother]

Hmm, noticed a small problem - people with neither a url or a system avatar (like my account now) don't show up perfectly. "therother's Avatar" is shown, although the problem is slightly different in IE & Opera than it is in Firefox, but it seems to be the url avatar code in both cases.

[therother]

Just wondering that instead of having no avatar when you turn off your system avatar, if it would be better to get a basic avatar instead (somewhat similar to what you suggest above, but for system avatars this time)? Perhaps just the border of the current avatars but with no picture inside? We could even have some text to encourage curmudgeons like me to pick an avatar and be done with it, e.g. "This spoilsport has chosen not to select an avatar".