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[ragtek]

AS a vB user you have a profile picture and a avatar.
xf have only avatars...

Anybody have created an add-on to implement the missing profile pictures?

 

[Veer]

I think its fine to have a single picture for avatar and profile, its simple and nice.. otherwise it would be confusing.

Suggestion: If you really want to expend it then try adding a feature to store multiple (previously uploaded & new ones) profile pics same like facebook does. And option to select any of those as a profile/avatar picture

 

[dieketzer]

'hi i uploaded my pic and i still cant see it next to my posts?'

 

[ragtek]

'hi i uploaded my pic and i still cant see it next to my posts?'

I agree, that this was a big problem for new users, but now we have a nice system and the users are familiar with this and we can't / don't want to remove this now, when we switch

 

[CTXMedia]

IP.Board have gone the other way and removed the twin image avatar/profile pic setup in 3.2 in favour of a single image, on the basis that it is less confusing; and I must admit, on my own IP.Board it is something that comes up quite often "I uploaded my picture but it's not appearing next to my posts".

I suppose if it is an add-on then site owners can chose to use it if they feel it is something they want for their site. Might be interesting to see if there is some interest for it - there may well be people migrating over from vB for whom it would be important to keep these two distinct images for users.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[dieketzer]

I agree, that this was a big problem for new users, but now we have a nice system and the users are familiar with this and we can't / don't want to remove this now, when we switch

possibly a use for a custom profile field?

 

[ragtek]

I suppose if it is an add-on then site owners can chose to use it if they feel it is something they want for their site.

That's why i asked here in the add-on request forum

 

[CTXMedia]

That's why i asked here in the add-on request forum

Ah, sorry, my mistake - I didn't pay attention to which forum it was in.

As you were ... lol

 

[ToDie4]

An easy way around this is to simply insert an image in the About You section in your profile, host it on photobucket or what have you and use the bbcode img function, the photo will be present in the Information tab