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Arantor

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Re: Has SMF Gotten Slower?
« Reply #15, on May 15th, 2012, 05:49 PM »
That's why I referenced LiveJournal, because that does it, and I know some people do care about such - so I wondered what the feeling was for here.
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Re: Has SMF Gotten Slower?
« Reply #16, on May 16th, 2012, 07:49 AM »
Quote from Arantor on May 15th, 2012, 03:56 PM
Interesting... what do other people think about doing that?

(For the record, I suspect that even if you do make it like that, people are going to want per-post avatars anyway, and even then it's just a toss-up being storing it per post or per board which is complicated if you then move things between boards)
Excuse me for asking this, but isn't that simply a feature for its own sake? I can see the sense in being able to have different avatars for different boards on a user permissions basis and settable on a profile page - and indeed that might be a very desirable feature. But selectable avatars on a post by post basis? Surely that's going to make the Post page unnecessarily complicated?

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Re: Has SMF Gotten Slower?
« Reply #17, on May 16th, 2012, 02:47 PM »
Nope. It's very heavily used in LiveJournal, and with the fact we have blog support, I can imagine people would want it. Which is why I'm asking about it - I'm getting the feeling it's not a feature we actually *want* but that I'm pretty sure we'll be asked about, and it isn't particularly easy to do as a plugin (though it certainly should be if multi-avatars is already an option)

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Re: Has SMF Gotten Slower?
« Reply #18, on May 16th, 2012, 11:31 PM »
When I think of my Avatar there are very few sites I would want multiple avatars in the sense mentioned here. I could see My Avatars being an album that might be accessible via my profile. Maybe get real fancy have setting to "share" (allow others to use) the avatar. The only time I could see multiple avatars (per post) or board would be for a multi user site like Nao's site.
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Re: Has SMF Gotten Slower?
« Reply #20, on May 18th, 2012, 12:48 AM »
*cough cough* random avatar *cough cough*

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Re: Has SMF Gotten Slower?
« Reply #21, on May 18th, 2012, 07:18 AM »
Avatars are a way to identify a user without having to read their name (e.g. when you're quickly scanning a page looking for someone's comments.)
Random avatars would defeat that...
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