Avatar Gallery

Clara Yuri Asaki · Post by **Clara Yuri Asaki** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 12:12 pm

What is it and how do I use it?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 12:56 pm

Gallery is a bunch of avatars the admin(Phade) has setup to be available for people to choose from. Phade didn't set the feature up, probably since people out there have better ideas for what they want to use for a avatar then he does.

~klinky

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:24 pm

The gallery consists of system avatars Phade would have to dump in his hard drive. By not diong so it saves space and bandwith for the board and even still people can use whatever avatar they like without having to bother Phade by e-mailing him a slew of little jpegs and gifs.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 3:30 pm

I like the fact that there's no gallery. It's like saying to people, "If you want an avatar, go find/make one!"

On one forum I go to, there's a gallery, and like 30% of the members use the same 3 or 4 Trigun avatars

Clara Yuri Asaki · Post by **Clara Yuri Asaki** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 8:42 pm

Oh. I thought the Avatar Gallery was your own personal collection of Avatars.

That would actually be helpful for people who switch their Avatars often. Of course, if the Gallery was used like that, you'd probably have to have a collection of Off-Site Avatars only, to save space on the Admin's hard drives.

If it was your own personal collection of Avatars, it would be a cool idea to have some kind of automatic daily Avatar-cycle thing that would change your Avatar everyday.

Well, anyways, that's why I was so interested in it and had to ask. Cause I thought it would supposed to be your own collection of Avatars.

Thanks for the answers! ^_^

f~a~e~r~i~e · Post by **f~a~e~r~i~e** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 9:53 pm

i would have helped...but i was wondering about the whole gallery thing myself.

klinky has answers for everything.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 10:07 pm

Clara Yuri Asaki wrote:Oh. I thought the Avatar Gallery was your own personal collection of Avatars.

That would actually be helpful for people who switch their Avatars often. Of course, if the Gallery was used like that, you'd probably have to have a collection of Off-Site Avatars only, to save space on the Admin's hard drives.

If it was your own personal collection of Avatars, it would be a cool idea to have some kind of automatic daily Avatar-cycle thing that would change your Avatar everyday.

Or you could just use Klinky's method if you want to mess with the source code for a while.

f~a~e~r~i~e · Post by **f~a~e~r~i~e** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 10:11 pm

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klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:41 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:The gallery consists of system avatars Phade would have to dump in his hard drive. By not diong so it saves space and bandwith for the board and even still people can use whatever avatar they like without having to bother Phade by e-mailing him a slew of little jpegs and gifs.

Technically a Gallery could SAVE space rather then use more. Since each member is allowed to store a 6KB avatar off of the site anyways. If you limited them to choosing from a set of 50 or so, then that would be wayy less then what's being used now. You would also have the added benefit of these avatars being on their local browser cache. So it would most likely save bandwidth and space, unless he put a ungodly amount of avatars in there.

Phade didn't do this since he loves us all very much

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:43 pm

Messed up there on the img :p

~klinky