a request for the admins

[FutureWorm]

kick the maximum avatar size up to 150x150px and the size limit up to 20kb

[thomasp]

I've always thought avatars bigger than 100x100 look a bit out of place and start to get irritating... Any particular reason you want them bigger?

Not sure how the forum would cope with upping the size limit though, given all the recent problems we've had...

[AndrewTaylor]

Move your head closer to the screen.

[Akuryou13]

I'm with thomas on the avatar size. 100x100 is about as good as it gets without being intrusive.

20kb wouldn't be bad, though....though it'd be annoying that we finally get 20k back now that I'm not animating :p

[FutureWorm]

I've always thought avatars bigger than 100x100 look a bit out of place and start to get irritating... Any particular reason you want them bigger?

i want to set this as my avatar

http://j.photos.cx/turboblack-229.gif

actually, 125x125 would work

[Akuryou13]

I'm SURE I can resize that to 100x100. it's not much of a leap. lemme see.

edit: woooooooooow. I don't know what happened, but the frames on my copy of that when I save it get all scrambled. the animation is mostly the same (a few frames are randomly moved for no reason) but the little sliding empty space just seems to glitch around for some reason rather than sliding down smoothly..... not much I can do with it being stupid like that. maybe someone else's save won't corrupt or whatever mine did.

loaded it back and it worked. no idea what happened. anyway, just a quick resize. looks slightly different since all I did was make it smaller, but if this works for you, it works for me :p

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8971/turboblack229.gif

hmmm....transparency got wonky.....not sure what to do on that one...

[FutureWorm]

it doesn't work when you resize it because it is precisely interlaced. the only thing that would work while preserving the effect would be a crop job, but then it's not legible

[SupSuper]

it doesn't work when you resize it because it is precisely interlaced. the only thing that would work while preserving the effect would be a crop job, but then it's not legibleYes it is.

[Vader]

I think avatars should be 640x480, maximum of 350MB and .avi should be a supported format.

edit: actually, this reminds me that I'd like avatars to appear in quotes. Smaller, shrunken avatars.

[Akuryou13]

thank ya, sup.

[thomasp]

One way for you to make the changes is to reduce your screen resolution and switch to dialup, thus giving the illusion that the avatars take up a greater percentage of the screen and are "bigger" files due to their slower load time

:p


Anyway SupSuper's proved that your avatar can be done in 100x100 and in less than 9.8kB :p

[Vader]

Look I made an example of how I'd like quotes to look:

[Vader]

http://forum.team17.co.uk/image.php?u=600&dateline=1224415353
one way for you to make the changes is to reduce your screen resolution and switch to dialup, thus giving the illusion that the avatars take up a greater percentage of the screen and are "bigger" files due to their slower load time

:p


anyway supsuper's proved that your avatar can be done in 100x100 and in less than 9.8kb :p

OMG I AM SO GOING TO DOUBLE-POST LOL :eek:

You can't set an image's size with IMG tags, though :(

[FutureWorm]

Yes it is.
how the heck did you do that

[FutureWorm]

Look I made an example of how I'd like quotes to look:
that would be really cool actually

[SupSuper]

how the heck did you do thatI am the awesome avatar optimizer.

[FutureWorm]

I am the awesome avatar optimizer.
if that was seriously just a basic crop then i feel dumb

[Akuryou13]

if that was seriously just a basic crop then i feel dumb*tests* yep. just a standard crop :p the image you had originally was only 118 wide. not much to crop off of either side.

[BetongÅsna]

Bumping this in support of Vader's quote idea.

[GrimOswald]

I support Vader's quote idea also.

[Muzer]

As do I.

[CyberShadow]

The administrators aren't web programmers. If vBulletin doesn't support a feature like it, and there's no "plugin" / "patch" / whatever which looks clean/stable/secure enough to apply to a high-traffic forum such as this, it probably isn't going to happen.

[Muzer]

While we're on the subject of plugins, I understand the double post edit from yonks ago was a plugin, and when the forum was upgraded once, there wasn't an alternative. Well, here's one for 3.8.x (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=204177&highlight=doublepost). Would be a nice thing to have again.

There is also another one (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=203705&highlight=double+post), but I'm not sure if it works with AJAX or not.

EDIT: Apparently it does but you need to edit some JS. The first one I linked to you don't.

[thomasp]

Double posting doesn't seem like that much of a problem at the moment, has certainly decreased a lot lately.

However I can see adding a double post merge hack a problem with the current pre-moderation. Occasionally a user will submit a reply to a thread 2 - 10 times thinking that it hasn't submitted, not realising its just gone into the mod queue. With the current system, we keep one post and delete the others, however if such a plugin is installed we'd have to manually edit the post to cut out duplicates.

[Akuryou13]

Double posting doesn't seem like that much of a problem at the moment, has certainly decreased a lot lately.

However I can see adding a double post merge hack a problem with the current pre-moderation. Occasionally a user will submit a reply to a thread 2 - 10 times thinking that it hasn't submitted, not realising its just gone into the mod queue. With the current system, we keep one post and delete the others, however if such a plugin is installed we'd have to manually edit the post to cut out duplicates.but wouldn't it simply be a "click and drag" to delete the repeated postings?

[thomasp]

but wouldn't it simply be a "click and drag" to delete the repeated postings?
Not really. I tend to only skim posts in the modCP (check for obvious bad posts) and we're given a very small box with scrollbars to read the post. So if the post is longer than about 10 lines it wouldn't be immediately obvious if someone has duplicate-posted. Much easier just to hit the "Delete" checkbox on a duplicate post, and if someone does make a valid double post, go to the thread and merge the posts.

[MtlAngelus]

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

Double post edit:

Eh, just post them as-is. It would be really amusing. :P

[Muzer]

Not really. I tend to only skim posts in the modCP (check for obvious bad posts) and we're given a very small box with scrollbars to read the post. So if the post is longer than about 10 lines it wouldn't be immediately obvious if someone has duplicate-posted. Much easier just to hit the "Delete" checkbox on a duplicate post, and if someone does make a valid double post, go to the thread and merge the posts.
At least one of them allows you to disable it for certain usergroups. Just disable it for those people who have not passed moderation.

[BetongÅsna]

Don't know if it's late, but congrats on now being a certified engineer, CS.

[FutureWorm]

The administrators aren't web programmers. If vBulletin doesn't support a feature like it, and there's no "plugin" / "patch" / whatever which looks clean/stable/secure enough to apply to a high-traffic forum such as this, it probably isn't going to happen.
well you should write it then

[CyberShadow]

As if I don't have better things to do :rolleyes:

[M3ntal]

Hmm, is that a Tamiya logo?

[AndrewTaylor]

As if I don't have better things to do :rolleyes:

Clearly .

[bonz]

Hmm, is that a Tamiya logo?
That was the first that came to my mind too.
It's this though: http://www.turborecordings.com/

[FutureWorm]

i don't know what a tamiya logo is

[CyberShadow]

http://www.tamiya.com/ - double-star with text under them.

[SupSuper]

It's this, apparently:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/360/tamiyalogo.gif

[CyberShadow]

Still don't have enough time to write that vB mod eh? :pFine, hook me up. I'll need the source code for a test setup and I'm not paying for a vB license. That's even if the forum administrator agrees with this change (personally I don't like it).

[BetongÅsna]

In that case, would making it optional per-user add to the workload particularly?

[SupSuper]

Fine, hook me up. I'll need the source code for a test setup and I'm not paying for a vB license. That's even if the forum administrator agrees with this change (personally I don't like it).I think worMatty has a vB license, you could ask him.

[CyberShadow]

In that case, would making it optional per-user add to the workload particularly?I wouldn't know until I tried it, but I think a lot of people would have it no other way.