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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: faminz on January 16, 2002, 08:41:05 PM

Title: vbulletin avatars
Post by: faminz on January 16, 2002, 08:41:05 PM

Hey Mr administrator of the bulletin board...

How about enabling avatars? The little pics beside posts.

Itd be fun to see what some of these sad dudes pick...!!!

Title: vbulletin avatars
Post by: Revvin on January 17, 2002, 10:17:17 AM

Personally I'm glad they don't allow them on a board with this much traffic, they are pointless and slow down the speed if you are on a slow connection.

Title: vbulletin avatars
Post by: Seeker on January 17, 2002, 11:03:10 AM

What revin said.

True kiddies stuff.

Title: vbulletin avatars
Post by: maik on January 17, 2002, 12:18:37 PM

also agree with rev and seeker here :).

But they should enable private messaging finally.

Title: Re: vbulletin avatars
Post by: DamnedATC on January 17, 2002, 12:43:41 PM

Quote

Originally posted by faminz
Hey Mr administrator of the bulletin board...

How about enabling avatars? The little pics beside posts.

Itd be fun to see what some of these sad dudes pick...!!!

Yea that could be the Relaxed Realism BB and this could convert to the Full realism.

ATC

Title: vbulletin avatars
Post by: faminz on January 17, 2002, 04:40:25 PM

as an administrator of a separate use of vbulletin and as an observer of many bb's I think the comments about speed are very shortsighted.
Avatars, if kept to a small size, are very quick to load and personalise a message in a visual way that definitely adds to the communication and collaboration function of a BB.

I still theink they should be tried on one forum at least.

Title: vbulletin avatars
Post by: elstevie on January 17, 2002, 05:00:46 PM

Nope

Title: vbulletin avatars
Post by: Revvin on January 17, 2002, 05:36:01 PM

I administer my own vBulletin and have run others too such as phpBB, YaBB, Ikonboard etc. While I would'nt mind my squad using Av's on our board because we don't have the same kind of traffic it would slow down a board with HTC's kind of traffic flow. I don't see the point in changing the forums over to a faster forum software such as vBulletin that uses a faster mySQL backend only to slow it down with Av's that serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever, they might be funny once, maybe twice but after that they don't even get looked at. Why clog up your net chache storing all these files and then downloading them again when your chache is emptied. I suspect the polls have been removed for the same reason and surprised although glad that they kept the file feature switched on.