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vBulletin 3.6.7 PL1 post upgrade party thread
The forum upgrade is done. This new version of the vBulletin software incorporates over 6 months worth of minor bug fixes and security improvements, and ensures compatibility with newer plugin products. Most of you won't notice the changes, but here's a changelog for you to review:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229448 (Note that 3.6.6 to 3.6.7 is mostly a security fix) As usual, some things may not be functioning as normal (particularly Javascript), so report them here. |
ditto
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Oh so that's what that is! I can't change my av either.
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"unable to save image"
you know where a good place is to save an image on another website by allowing remote avatars <_< |
I can change your avatar... for a dollar.
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Avatars should work now. I had to chmod the directories again.
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Thanks man!
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Profile fields look all messed up.
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Except that would make it harder for us to edit people's avatars, Acer. Not much harder, granted but harder none the less.
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No, you'd have remote hosting AND uploading of avatars. We could upload a new avatar to GFF for a user OR remote host to wherever. Would it really be that confusing?
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Why are remote avatars needed? As is, the server hosts all the avatars and does it fast, so you don't have to wait 5 extra seconds for ImageShack to come in like you do with most people's signatures.
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I think the only valid argument there is that it'd allow for php scripts, or whatever they're called, to have an avatar than randomly changes on reload.
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php would be fun but really it would allow for larger filesize for avatars. I mean sure within reason. I'd hope people wouldn't be pointing to 2 megabyte sized avatars. But really around 200 kb shouldn't be life threatening for anybody.
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Ah, well for larger filesize you should just be campaigning for an admin to increase the limit, not to allow remote linking. I mean, it's not like server space or bandwidth is an issue, the limit is just there to prevent people from using animated movie clips or something.
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The limit is not 75kb because the server can't handle more. It's 75kb because increasing the size of avatars 266% is insane. The only reason anyone would need more than 75kb (which is certainly acceptable for good resolution within JPG or PNG compression) is to come up with insane animated GIFs. Plus, it changes the maximum download size of the avatars of one thread page from under 2 MB to 5 MB.
And I (and quite a few people when we've had this debate before) hate animated GIFs. I'm not even reading Devo's posts right now, just skipping right past them, it's too insane to have that shit in my field of vision. |
Firefox, and probably other browsers, do have the ability to not play animated gifs, you know.
I hope this isn't too animated for you to read! ='D |
I don't want to turn off all animated GIFs, you know.
And, yes, crappy animated GIFs can be made to 75k (as Devo and Dubble prove right here). But Acer's argument in this debate about av and sig filesizes and dimensions (which we have seemingly had about eight thousand times) is that bigger is always better. There's never an upper bound. We didn't use to have 75k avs either and now that's not big enough? If we go to 200k, then what will the next increase request be, 350k? Then 700k? Where's the upper limit? A 105x150 BMP with no compression is under 50k. If you can't do whatever you need in 75k, I say it's time to get a new hobby. |
Perhaps if you didn't want to imply you desired all animated gifs off you should have worded your original statement differently. If I "hate" something, I generally want to avoid all instances of it.
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My numbers are all wrong, by the way, ignore the numbers I have in there and just use "happy candy".
The current av size is 30k, which means that Acer is advocating upping the avatar limit 666%. How are gigantic animated GIFs so necessary to increase the maximum avatar section loading time more than 6 times over? People would just stop compressing their images, which means even single frame avs would balloon in size (why compress if you don't need to?). It's just a bad idea all around for everyone who doesn't care if Acer can't do a 300 frame animated GIF. Bigger is not always better. Additional Spam: And I say this with the full understanding that Acer has one of the final says on everything! |
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lolz mikey I thought we already cleared that fun mess of textual misunderstanding in the hut? gonna demote u to janitor *kisses*
I think we all know I love having fun and pushing limits but I'm understanding of our boundaries. I just love the ever living fuck out of options. Never can have enough but uh you know within reasons; don't want to turn GFF into My Space or something retarded. I've voiced that before though. Right, a sweet option that I'd love is to create two avatars if you're CU-RAZY like me. The first one is a default one that displays for everyone within the limitations of 30 or 50 or whatever kb we have avatars at these days. It's been a while since I've changed mine. The second one you have to click a tiny graphic to enable and it would be 200 kb or whatever insane size. Only the curious would click it. Or hell you might set an option in your uh options panel to have these browser killers on but they'd be set to off by default so don't worry your sweet heads. Ramble ramble ramble primary avatar is limited and on by default secondary avatar isn't limited (or perhaps 2 mb limit or off-site hosting) and is off by default ramble ramble ramble control panel fun for all of us kids. And there's another one of my extravagantly unnecessary ideas that perhaps I will detail out later in pictures by means of the photoshup and photos.cx that will never be used. =)))) Additional Spam: Oh ya, here's a rather simple idea that I bet you guys would love. An ignore ava/sig list. I'd love it to have levels. Like perhaps an ignore forever for people whose ava/sigs you just always hate. And then another where you can ignore for a couple days that you set. And then another that will kick them off the ignore list when they change their avatar or sig. Any fans? |
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