Who Wants Avatar?

YUPAPA · #1 05-04-2002, 11:40 AM

ME... come and vote!

tagalaxy.net · #2 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

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StarGate · #3 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 · #4 05-05-2002, 10:32 AM

This question has been already asked multiple times....
There won't be avatars

dragonhawk · #5 05-12-2002, 01:02 AM

isn't sitepointforums bigger than webhostingtalk?

They've got avatars enabled...

Chicken · #6 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 · #7 05-12-2002, 10:49 AM

Quote:

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 · #8 05-12-2002, 12:20 PM

The banner ads or sometimes 340x480 images.

Angel78 · #9 05-18-2002, 07:52 AM

Please no Avatar's, it will change the look of the forum.

(SH)Saeed · #10 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 · #11 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