Lack of interest Avatar upload from URL

[Russ]

I searched the forums but didn't see this out there.

More options are usually a good thing haha , any plans to have the ability to link to an avatar?

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Gravatar
Link to outside source

Just a thought!

 

[Paul B]

Upload and gravatars are already allowed.

Only URL isn't at the moment.

 

[Russ]

Ya my list was just stating which are there currently, and which I think would be a good fit - didn't make that too clear haha

 

[Kevin]

But do you really want your sites page loading time to be dependent upon a remote site?

 

[Nick]

But do you really want your sites page loading time to be dependent upon a remote site?

Nope.

 

[Disjunto]

But do you really want your sites page loading time to be dependent upon a remote site?

no, you fetch the avatar once and store it locally.

 

[Paul B]

no, you fetch the avatar once and store it locally.

Precisely.

I'm glad the dev's haven't allowed avatars via URL.

 

[Russ]

Ya it's really no biggie, I went to link my avatar on my website, realized I couldn't, hit save - > then upload.

But I hadn't seen this discussion so it was more to spark one up

 

[Kevin]

no, you fetch the avatar once and store it locally.

So it's really upload from a remote URL, not link to it.

 

[Disjunto]

So it's really upload from a remote URL, not link to it.

yes, any other option is a bad idea. We don't want to be hotlinking for avatars

 

[KURTZ]

Nope.

+1

 

[TRACKER]

Hi all, I don't know why because, in this moment, We can't add avatar from URL, please add this simple function for You script

Greetings, Robert.

 

[Cezz]

Hi all, I don't know why because, in this moment, We can't add avatar from URL, please add this simple function for You script

Greetings, Robert.

+1 here... I like this idea and it should be very simple to do.

 

[KURTZ]

uhm .. personally i prefer the gravatar system, you can associate a specific image to a specific e-mail, this allow us to recognize you everywhere ...

 

[Kier]

You could always download the image in question and then upload it from your computer - it doesn't seem like a major step to me, especially as the image will tend to be relatively small.

 

[Jesepi]

I would like a user to be able to supply a URL for their avatar, and have the server grab the image from the remote location and save it locally. No hot-linking to the image, just a one time thing as it gets saved.

 

[Floris]

I would like a user to be able to supply a URL for their avatar, and have the server grab the image from the remote location and save it locally. No hot-linking to the image, just a one time thing as it gets saved.

I never quite understood why it is so hard for someone to just load the image in the browser, save it, and then use the upload feature for avatar?

It's a one second step "click, save"

 

[Cobro]

I never quite understood why it is so hard for someone to just load the image in the browser, save it, and then use the upload feature for avatar?

True

 

[Jesepi]

Because they want the quickest/easiest path. Reducing the number of steps to achieve something is what most people prefer. Instead of rightclick-save > name saved file > click upload avatar > browse for file > select file > click upload > go back and delete file, people want Paste address into field > click upload.

 

[Paul B]

If they want the easiest path of all then they should be using Gravatar as it's automatic