XYplorer Beta Club

Hi, I am a new comer on the forum.
Q: why is the avatar function disabled? I find it a good visual help in long threads where several users posts/answers

admsupport wrote:Hi, I am a new comer on the forum.
Q: why is the avatar function disabled? I find it a good visual help in long threads where several users posts/answers

I've seen you posts to a nbr of threads so will use this one to say: Hi and welcome to the XY forums!

Now, as a very freq poster here, I'll say that the reason we don't use avatars (and/or any more than a minimal sig area) is to save the extra vertical space that they require...we can thus see more posts in same screen space, which is (IMHO) more valuable than an avatar....they also are somewhat of a distraction from the clean look of forum.

We tried it for a few days once and the consensus was to go back to no avatars, ok?

j_c_hallgren wrote:

admsupport wrote:Hi, I am a new comer on the forum.
Q: why is the avatar function disabled? I find it a good visual help in long threads where several users posts/answers

I've seen you posts to a nbr of threads so will use this one to say: Hi and welcome to the XY forums!

Now, as a very freq poster here, I'll say that the reason we don't use avatars (and/or any more than a minimal sig area) is to save the extra vertical space that they require...we can thus see more posts in same screen space, which is (IMHO) more valuable than an avatar....they also are somewhat of a distraction from the clean look of forum.

We tried it for a few days once and the consensus was to go back to no avatars, ok?

Yep, true. Apart from the obvious fact that XYplorer is a surreal and totally artsy software project, I'd like the forum to look a little different than my city in carnival season.

admin wrote:I'd like the forum to look a little different than my city in carnival season.

agreed

@j_c_hallgren
Thanks