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Quote from: Princess Darcy on 2018 Aug 25, 21:25:06Also randomly changing avatar size to non'linear proportions will break a very many users' avatars as they are mostly made to be square, mine included.

Rewards/Karma system:  We've tried that in the past.  It ended very badly.  It most likely will not come back, especially the badges.

Not true. Having an increased size limit doesn't specifically change the avatar layout based on the maximum size allowed. If you're having a square shape, it'll stay that way, if you change to a rectangular shape (if it's allowed), it'll adapt automatically. On that forum I used the examples, theres a lot of avatars that still use square ones because it's either preference or they don't know how to resize. Unless ancient html/css is being used, this shouldn't be a problem.

About the Reward system, since it's something pretty common to find, care to explain a bit better on what happened?
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Introductions / Re: Hi everyone!
2018 Aug 17, 14:31:08
Thank you!
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Introductions / Re: Hi everyone!
2018 Aug 16, 20:05:32
Thanks for dropping by!

*hugs*
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Sorry for the double post.

Anyways, I'm going to use my own post above just so you can see how better the spaces can be used. I know, the post was quite long, but here's my point. From what I've seen, there's a lot of big signatures here, so, even if the post is relatively small, it still has some space going down just for the signature, which will create unused space on the avatar/posts/info area.

Here's what I mean:
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And I don't have anything on my signature!

Now, the question is, why not use that unused space to improve the avatar quality? And add a post-reward system?
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Not necessarily change URL to upload, having both options would be nice so anyone can decide which to use. This is the first forum I've seen limited to only URL. It just looks weird. Much smaller forums I know use the upload system, so I'm really not sure how exactly this storage thing works, either way, I don't think it is that expensive to implement it since most pre-made forums come with that option already.

Also, here's one forum that uses the rectangular avatar, which is also a MLP forum (Brazil): Link

For anyone interested in seeing, I'm going to drop some pictures of the avatars there below on the spoilerbox since you have to register to be able to see the posts and profiles from other users anyway. And like I said, this looks much, much better.

Pictures below:
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If anyone from the team needs help with this in case this goes forward, I can help, either with donations or tips on forum aesthetics.

I'm also going to take the chance and say that the reward system included on that forum for the number of posts are really good too. In case anyone is wondering what's that it is those mini-images below the avatars from the pictures above. It not only increases people to become more active on the forum, it makes people happy to actually earn something for being active on the community, and it looks good for everybody (plus, it's kinda nice to show off your reward of 2k+ posts).


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There's a chance this might have already been discussed, so apologies if it was.  X3

So, I'm an active user on a couple of forums and I have to say, it's been a while since I didn't have to use an URL to change my avatar to a custom one like here. Uploading images to use as avatar is a common thing, specially at forums. A lot of people like to customize before adding them (like me), so it should make sense having an option to add the avatar through upload.

Also, I honestly think the maximum viewing size of the avatars should be increased. 178x300 for example is probably one of the best-looking avatar sizes out there, and it makes everything prettier. Just an example of what my currently avatar could look here:

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What you guys think? Considering it's a mlp-based forum, I'd love to see bigger and prettier avatars out there...
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Wow, so many cool stories...

As for me, back in 2011 I remember a lot of people talking about MLP on this rhythm game I was hooked called Osu!, so I said "Hey, let's give this a shot". I watched the entire season in one day. Been a brony since then.

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Introductions / Hi everyone!
2018 Aug 16, 14:20:39
Hey guys, I knew the game for quite some time now, but it's my first time in the foruns, it's a pleasure to meet you all!
I'm currently in touch with Rattletrap to be part of the unity implementation team and help the game as much as I can.
Feel free to drop by and say hello, I won't bite ovO