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.