Please don’t. I’m good with the avatars right now, because 50 pixels is almost exactly the same height as my name and member status.
This is not one of those cases where bigger is better.
Avatar enabled.
I’m not seeing any avatars, broken, or put-together. Not nuthin’. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to post one of my own before I can see other people’s?
The avatars look great. I switched back to the old skin to eliminate the spacing between avatars and names.
Nevermind. Figured it out.
I’m torn between relieved and disappointed.
I don’t mind the 50×50. In fact, I say keep it this way as a silent nod to our minimalist past.
Let’s see how this looks…
EDIT: Cool!
Yes, there was a lot of scope, there. Unrealized as yet.
What avatars? I haven’t seen a single one so far.
You have to turn them on – look at the USER CP instructions in the first post.
This is from another place where I was known as “60s Refugee”. Works good for Lumpy too.
It played one animation cycle in my profile page, but do they animate on posts?
Edit: Played one animation cycle and stopped, which is probably a reasonable compromise if that was the intended behavior.
Is there likely to be any issue about copyrighted material as an avatar? Would SDMB wait for a lawyer to contact, or try to be proactive about it?
Considering people use copyrighted images as avatars all over the internet, I think it’s safe to say it falls under “fair use”.
I’ve not used avatars before. Afraid I’m not so creative … testing to see if the bitmoji of myself even posts.
And on preview apparently not.
I see it.
This question has come up since the early days of avatars on the SDMB. (At that time accomplished by use of a 3rd party script.)
With hundreds of millions of online avatars in use around the world, even now six years later I still can’t find one example of a lawsuit or even a cease and desist letter regarding a copyright claim about someone’s online avatar.
As said in that old thread:
No animated anything, please.
I have the “allow animation” turned off, which is probably why it only blinked once.
But please, it shouldn’t blink at all. Or do anything else but just be.
Would very much appreciate you fixing this. Thanks.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
To prevent animations you could just disable uploading GIF format avatars entirely. I’m sure that VB can do this but I don’t know what kind of work would be involved. It may be just a simple checkbox in the settings or could require having to edit code directly in the VB files.