I quite like Avatar module and my members use and call profile photos avatars anyway (me too). So...? :)
What I'd like is to click on a profile photo and get a pop-up where I can change it, something like FB has. Maybe someone knows about a mod for this?
Glad to help. :)) But I use what I have (so it's not that exactly unknowing, lol). It's pointless to dream about some far away version of Dolphin with all nice features when I know I won't be able to upgrade to it anyway. Almost everything could be better so avatar is not exactly the most pressing problem. What's more interesting is why all those little improvements I made thank to you guys here on the forums (the last one was actually your Larger Image Popup thingie, lol), why can't they be packed see more by Boonex into some mega-patch and distributed to all those poor souls stuck with anything below 7.0.9? But I think it's like trying to ask why geese can fly and ostriches cannot. Lol.
Avatars is indeed a pressing problem. Anything that makes a site confusing to use, is a pressing problem.... although Boonex is not treating it as such. The avatars/photos combination as it relates to profile photos, as a point of confusion, is not just my opinion. This is knowledge I have extracted from reading hundreds of forum posts over the last three years.
I have always been a proponent of making the core product as user friendly as possible, and that has yet to be done with the avatar see more issue. It worked fine in Dolphin 6.... you selected a default profile photo and you were done..... then the went and fixed something that wasn't broken.
Let people have their avatar module if they must. All I ask is the ability to select a default profile photo to use as the avatar, WITHOUT installing the avatar module. THese folks a Boonex think they have a real slick system here. They are wrong.
BTW... things like that larger image popup of mine are commonly referred to as
'hacks'. Whether or not such things are an improvement, is a matter of opinion, I'd hack this avatar issue, but they have it so inextricably woven into every single 7.0.9 feature, it's a nightmare.
Exactly, reading hundreds of posts over three years and avatars are still there. :) Hope dies last. :)
They call it hacks, I call it Great Things In Life That Are For Free. :)
If it's inextricable and woven into, just rename it? Add some features to Profile photos and then rename it into something like My Top Photo? You know, if you can't beat them join them? After all, there is always Toyota and Lexus, so why can't be there Avatar and Profile Photo too? :)))
What I'd like is to click on a profile photo and get a pop-up where I can change it, something like FB has. Maybe someone knows about a mod for this?
I have always been a proponent of making the core product as user friendly as possible, and that has yet to be done with the avatar see more
'hacks'. Whether or not such things are an improvement, is a matter of opinion, I'd hack this avatar issue, but they have it so inextricably woven into every single 7.0.9 feature, it's a nightmare.
They call it hacks, I call it Great Things In Life That Are For Free. :)
If it's inextricable and woven into, just rename it? Add some features to Profile photos and then rename it into something like My Top Photo? You know, if you can't beat them join them? After all, there is always Toyota and Lexus, so why can't be there Avatar and Profile Photo too? :)))