Re: Simple feature request/suggestion re: avatars

Posted by Transcix on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Simple-feature-request-suggestion-re-avatars-tp5976210p6004954.html

Thanks very much for the response!

I know I can make the avatars small, but unfortunately they're still very visible. Unfortunately even in mixed mode I can see the avatars, for instance on your example of seahawk17.plus.com/forum I can see many avatars featuring a bird head and the numbers 267 below it. If I want to inform potential forum members on my site that they can click the +/- avatar icon to hide the avatar images--and I would have to inform them as it's not initially obvious (to the uninitiated, at least)--then it would certainly seem to them that I'm having to take an extra measure due to an inherent shortcoming in the forum software I'm using.

In the context of the website I'm making, I just couldn't have these little images, especially since I'm the only one who created the sub-forums which means my avatar will be displayed excessively. Keep in mind I'm dealing with professional scholars here... for many of them social media in the first place makes them cringe, and avatars are just out of the question.

If I refrain from using any avatar though, I would get the default image of an empty avatar, and although this isn't ideal I think it's passable.

I'm still in love with Nabble. I just think (and I may be wrong) that it would be relatively simple to change the software to allow the forum admin to toggle the avatar visibility on or off; it would still be the same for forum members, they could also toggle it on or off themselves, but now there would also be control over the default of what is seen by people visiting the forum for the very first time. I think one of the great aspects of Nabble is it's simplicity and flexibility, and because of this it can be particularly appealing to professionals or people from the older generation who just want something simple, basic and clean, that also takes advantage though of social media--something that's connected into web 2.0 but that doesn't necessarily look like it is. For this type of person, I think it would be a great improvement to be able to hide the avatar from the outset.

This is just my $0.02! :)