Tripp★ Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Lets make a following few points clear first:No I am not happy with 3.1.4, especially with the Gallery as buggy as it is. I do like the look and feel of 3.2.0 and there is alot I am happy about with it. There are however alot I am not happy about with 3.2.0 I don't like the fact that Avatars are a fixed size. I don't so much mind having to share Profile Photos and Avatars together. I can understand that, and I accept that, that is what IPS wanted to do. HOWEVER I do believe the use should of have the option for it. (Option to move to the new system, keep the old one, etc) I probably would of stayed with the old one to be honest, but that's just me. I cannot speak for every customer IPS has. Where as in 3.1.4 the Avatars had a MAX size limit. Say 160x200 (If that's what I set it to in the AdminCP) users could upload say a 150x150 and it'll be fine, it won't stretch, it will just be a box. Or they could upload a 300x300 picture and it will get resized down keeping the aspect ratio of said image. NOW however; when you upload a picture no matter what, your avatar, when viewing posts/threads seems to be stuck at 100px × 100px (scaled to 90px × 90px) is there any way I can change this? Is it a bug? Or... Can someone please tell me what's going on? If it's a bug then fine, I will pipe up about it. However if it's not... I kinda have a problem here, and I would like to know how I can change it... Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilford Tibbetts Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Many of my board members are complaining about this also. I would like to see the ability to have avatars act like they did in the older versions. The current lack of flexibility and Admin controls is very annoying. Regards, Wilford Tibbetts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoGators Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I also agree that we should have the ability through the ACP to adust all the Avatar/Picture sizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoisdo Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 This is something that blows my mind. I can understand and deal with avatars/profile photos being one, but AT LEAST give me the option to set the size for them. I want to set them to 150x150 for staff & 100x100 for standard members. This feature not being available is ridiculous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiuzSu Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I agree with the avatar size as well... this is something we've had the option to manipulate since as far back as I can remember forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 No I am not happy with 3.1.4, especially with the Gallery as buggy as it is. Gallery 3 that goes with 3.1.4 works very well. Gallery 4 that some members with 3.1.4 upgraded to is buggy. Gallery 4.1 like here is a lot better but still has bugs. Re avatar / photo size. I agree, there should be controls on size. I have no plans on upgrading to 3.2 any time soon. I'll wait until all of the issues with a new version are sorted out, plus some decent skins available to purchase. By the way you can control the scaling of the avatars by editing the css. 3DKiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 The thing I don't get is that the original size of your photo appears in your profile but then the photo in your post-profile, that mini profile, is cropped ... I just don't understand why IPS didn't allow for an Admin to be able to change the default size of the post-profile photo like 3.1.4 allowed you to do. I'm fine with only having the photo, but at least give administrators the ability to change the size of the photo in the ACP. With 3.1.4, you could set the max size of avatars in the ACP. But, with 3.2, this option was removed. This really needs to be returned to the ACP, even if you don't plan on returning the avatar feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omri Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 You had total or at least near total control in basically every version of IPB besides 3.2.0. you can't edit the "thumbnail" size, you can't specify "per user" size limits and a lot of the old features are just gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikadon Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I agree. I want the maximum size to be rectangular, something like 150x300px. Not possible with 3.2 as I hear :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owdy Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Also, make avatars visible to guests... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breadfan Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Also, make avatars visible to guests... +1 on this! I don't mind fixed-sized avatars but for guests to see only one default avatar makes the board look a bit bland/boring (and first impression is always important). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qscott86 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I think IPS' decision to remove the avatar gallery was a poor one. This feature has been common on forums since their inception. It makes little sense to have multiple users upload the same image over and over if they want to use the same avatar/'photo'. I also don't like the fact that when you crop, the maximum crop area is so small. I guess it's okay to have only photos, but that's no excuse to reduce the number of features (i.e. gallery, size) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Avatars and Signatures have been a staple of message forum software since the first one was created. I'm just mind-boggled as to why IPS decided that nobody would use them anymore. It kind of reminds me of the whole debate over Google's new video format and expressing a desire to introduce a new video format to replace the ones that have come before it. I'm not saying that avatar galleries are needed, but the functionality of allowing forum admins to be able to change the size of the photo avatar, as it's attached to your forum posts, should have remained a part of the ACP. System Admins should be able to retain the ability to set the photo size, not to have a particular size to be arbitrarly applied because IPS thinks having both are redundant. While we're not asking for avatars or avatar galleries to be returned, we're asking that IPS add the functionality back to the ACP so that admins can set their own custom sizes for the width and height of the photo avatars. It's kind a dumb idea that a member's profile will display the correct size of the photo (150x100 or whatever size has been uploaded or selected) and yet the phto avatar in their topic posts is mandatory at 100x100 without having the ability to change that photo avatar size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Chavarria Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 After I upgrade my board, one of the settings I was searching for what the avatar size. To me avatars are like the face of our forum's members, and they love to have big avatar (at least my users), so it's important to have this back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripp★ Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 Thing is I can understand having an avatar restriction hard coded in it, if everyone was still using 800x600 screen resolutions. But we're not. Hell the lowest I use at the moment is 1920x1080, a 100x100 avatar on a 1920x1080 screen is so small I have to use Windows Magnifier just to see some of them! People on my forums LOVE having their 160x240 avatars and they're all really upset that it's gone! Thank you everyone for supporting me on this, I feel I've had a hard time trying to get IPS to even listen to me on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosss Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 IPS listen to their customers and users ... that Charls said ... that is their policy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owdy Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 IPS listen to their customers and users ... that Charls said ... that is their policy... Then make avatars visible to guests! My forum looks dumb right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Also, make avatars visible to guests... That has been done for 3.2.1 FYI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owdy Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 That has been done for 3.2.1 FYI. I dont have acces to it. Can you tell me manual instructions to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted July 27, 2011 Management Share Posted July 27, 2011 To increase the size of the square avatar thumbnail (this assumes 200px): Add this line into your conf_global.php file before the closing PHP tags:$INFO['member_photo_crop'] = 200; Then edit ipb_styles.css.ipsUserPhoto_large { max-width: 200px; max-height: 200px; } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owdy Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 How about showing avatars to guests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted July 27, 2011 Management Share Posted July 27, 2011 That's been fixed in 3.2.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis P Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 How about showing avatars to guests? That's been fixed in 3.2.1. I wasn't even aware it was a bug. Seems to work fine on my board... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owdy Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 That's been fixed in 3.2.1. That isnt helping really because its future release. Any change manual instructions how to fix that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted July 27, 2011 Management Share Posted July 27, 2011 I wasn't even aware it was a bug. Seems to work fine on my board... [img] [/img] It only happens if you have view profiles disabled for guests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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