Bug or feature? ("Don't show users' avatars" setting)
June 01, 2016, 04:13:28 am
So someone just asked about this over at a test site. They set their profile to not show users' avatars, then wondered why the users' avatars had vanished in posts but were still all over the board index and message index . Their thinking was that if you are going to have a setting to get rid of avs, it should work everywhere. That's why they chose to enable that setting: because they wanted avs gone. I hadn't thought of this before, but they have a point. Thoughts?
Re: Bug or feature? ("Don't show users' avatars" setting)
Reply #3 – June 01, 2016, 05:13:40 pm
Yeah I'm not sure either. Current way is definitely better for performance, since you don't have to check the members tables for settings all the time. I was thinking that just for the moment, I might whip up a small mod package that does apply the profile setting to the index pages. Try that out and see how it goes. Will also ask the person in question about why they want to hide avs.
Re: Bug or feature? ("Don't show users' avatars" setting)
Reply #6 – June 01, 2016, 10:31:54 pm
Apparently the usual reason for wanting to hide avs, at least for these people, is that some sites allow avs that are NSFW and/or not for kids. Which is why they were asking about hiding them everywhere.