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YUPAPA
05-04-2002, 11:40 AM
ME... come and vote!

tagalaxy.net
05-04-2002, 05:02 PM
for all the people still on dialup, NO!
(im on cable, but its only been for the last couple of months...i can still remember my 33.6k connection :( )

StarGate
05-04-2002, 07:10 PM
Avatars and sigs ARE nice...no doubt BUT the reason why they are not and should not be is not the poor poor dialup customers lol but the fact that teh server this forum runs on will burst, so will the bandwith (at least for avatars which are stored).

Unfortunately vbulletin is the worst BB system I hsve ever worked with... even Attachments are stored in DB.. it really sucks :(

diederik
05-05-2002, 10:32 AM
This question has been already asked multiple times....
There won't be avatars :)

dragonhawk
05-12-2002, 01:02 AM
isn't sitepointforums bigger than webhostingtalk?

They've got avatars enabled...

Chicken
05-12-2002, 01:21 AM
SP used to have 1,000's more members registered than WHT, we have more now (not really an indication of much either way IMHO), they have 70K more posts in 7,500 more threads though, so yes, I'd say they are bigger. They cover just about everything, we only cover web hosting, so I'd say we're doing ok.

Avatars were disabled, and I don't miss them either way. FWS uses them and I like mine there, but it doesn't add nor detract from forum'ing to me personally. To me, the only thing I really don't care for is images in the signature area.

weeps
05-12-2002, 10:49 AM
Originally posted by Chicken
SP used to have 1,000's more members registered than WHT, we have more now (not really an indication of much either way IMHO), they have 70K more posts in 7,500 more threads though, so yes, I'd say they are bigger. They cover just about everything, we only cover web hosting, so I'd say we're doing ok.

Avatars were disabled, and I don't miss them either way. FWS uses them and I like mine there, but it doesn't add nor detract from forum'ing to me personally. To me, the only thing I really don't care for is images in the signature area.

hehe you have simily's.. technically images in your signature..

Chicken
05-12-2002, 12:20 PM
The banner ads or sometimes 340x480 images.

Angel78
05-18-2002, 07:52 AM
Please no Avatar's, it will change the look of the forum.

(SH)Saeed
05-18-2002, 12:02 PM
Isn't there an option where people can choose if they want to view the avatars or not? I say let those that want to have avatars (small size and non animated ones) have them, so that we can all customize our posts a little.

GlideTech
05-20-2002, 02:55 AM
Even though you can disable avatars and signatures in your vb profile, I still had to vote no. Anything that takes some load off of the site, and helps it run better is a good thing :)

If it was up to me, I would view a text version of the site, and at the rate vbulletin is moving, I could be doing just that in a few months ;)

astralexis
05-20-2002, 05:19 PM
Originally posted by Chicken
SP used to have 1,000's more members registered than WHT, we have more now ...

What´s SP?

appletreats
05-20-2002, 05:39 PM
Originally posted by astra4


What´s SP?

guess - SitePoint[Forums]

dragonhawk
05-20-2002, 08:48 PM
Wow, there's someone who found out about SP after me :D