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2010-07-12, 02:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar Changes
As of now, you will no longer be required to enter in the width and height of avatars (which means also that you will no longer be required to instruct people on how to do that).
HOWEVER
You will still only be able to use an avatar that is 120x120. Avatars larger than that that had previously been set to a lower value and manually shrunk using the width and height values will now "overflow" into a "hidden" area.
This is only to ensure formatting is preserved, please do not allow this to happen!
This will break some current avatars that will need to be resized.
REMEMBER
File size restrictions still apply.
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2010-07-12, 08:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Can we keep a somewhat oversized avatar 120 x121 if it looks adequate and we cannot find a suitably sized version of said avatar?
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2010-07-12, 08:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-12, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Oh noes... my avatar just died :(
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2010-07-12, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
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2010-07-12, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-12, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Last edited by Lord Loss; 2010-07-12 at 10:25 AM.
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2010-07-12, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Well this is inconvenient.
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Originally Posted by The Lost Eyeball
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2010-07-12, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-12, 12:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
What will happen to smaller avatars?
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2010-07-12, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2010-07-12, 01:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
So my 117x117 avatars are all fine?
EDIT: Well, it looks fine....Last edited by Haruki-kun; 2010-07-12 at 01:29 PM.
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2010-07-12, 01:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, os it's just the maximum is still 120x120. Everything below that just follows what the image does, so I don't have a horde of screaming people hounding me for making their avatars thin. This is good.
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2010-07-12, 03:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, so this is why my avatar went all wonky looking.
*sigh*
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2010-07-12, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Should be more sure than just presumptions. Avatars arent covered under fair use.
Dont most wiki sites have a use justification for the images they use? If the image is public domain, you should be fine. If it has any copyright, then you arent.
Thatd actually be 120 pixels that need chopping off.
Well, it would give users motivation to actually use proper size avatars rather than make other peoples browsers resize the avatar. Itll reduce page load time for users and reduce bandwidth for the server hosting the image. Thats why Ive been planning on using that in the forum software Im developing, anyway.
Could also reduce layout quirks where one persons author-info box is noticeably narrower than everyone elses, I think.
Yeah. Instead of squeezing or stretching an image into a specific-size box, its simply putting everyones avatar into the same size box, which automatically crops the image. Of course, the entire image must still be downloaded by the users browsers, so its still important to obey the size limit, even if you dont mind or even notice the cropping.The Future just aint what it used to be.
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2010-07-12, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-12, 08:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, ok, so that's what's happened. I'd better get started fixing that then, my avatar is... slightly larger...
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2010-07-13, 03:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-13, 04:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Images used for avatars should all be the correct size. You should not have used the dimension fields to resize the images (not a board rule, of course, but a rule of good HTML).
There are now two less fields (width and height), which both change for every avatar created, to worry about. As long as the image you would like to use is of the correct size (120 by 120 or less), you no longer have to identify the width and height of an avatar image nor do you have to set or change it (resulting in stretched images when you get it incorrectly or forget).
In some cases this is less convenient (people were inappropriately using the width and height fields to resize an image and will now need to resize the source image) but in most ways this is more convenient for more people.
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2010-07-13, 07:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
There, all fixed up (I think) and saved on photobucket...
Last edited by Lord Loss; 2010-07-13 at 07:41 AM.
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2010-07-13, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Hot linking to an image on a site you don't have control over is bad for two reasons.
First, you're stealing bandwith from the site owner. They're paying every time that image is downloaded. Especially if you're taking a massive image and jamming it into a 120x120 box.
Second, and most important to you, you have no control over the image. Mods generally don't take "I didn't know they replaced my icon with hardcore porn" as an excuse. And that IS done quite often when someone discovers a person hotlinking their images.
Always use your own hosting service, or something like Photobucket.Last edited by NerfTW; 2010-07-13 at 08:28 AM.
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2010-07-13, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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This, I found, was the most convenient aspect of avatar placement (would have only been overshadowed if there were an option to upload avatars directly). No longer would I have to keep resizing my image until it was the appropriate size: the board did it for me, as it should be able to.
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2010-07-13, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
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2010-07-13, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-13, 12:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-13, 12:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
Nah. I have to Photoshop on my father's computer (still a teenager), send it back to my computer, post it on TinyPic, copy the HTML, come back here, and hope it fits so I don't have to start the process over again (never fits).
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Originally Posted by The Lost Eyeball
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2010-07-13, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Changes
If all you're doing is resizing, why not just bring the image up in MS Paint?
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2010-07-13, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-13, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-07-13, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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