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Post by Poog on Oct 19, 2015 0:44:20 GMT -5
Yo, Poog here. I'm currently looking into something new and fun; a badge system. Think of it like merit badges, you do _______ and get ______ badge. I've put the system in for the sake of the example. It shows up on profiles and mini-profiles. For now, we have a badge for Takaki re-tweeting something of yours, but I can make plenty more (no I won't be making custom badges for people until a long while down the road). Ones I have in mind are for being helpful, winning the contests I plan to host, etc.
Now here's the problem. They stretch mini-profile backgrounds, which leads me to a change I've wanted to make for a while. I think mini profile backgrounds should go due to this and the fact that they make names, titles, etc harder to read, sometimes impossible depending on their background. Which is... not good, and frankly makes the site less visually pleasing.
So there's two options.
A) Keep the super hype badge system, get rid of mini-profile backgrounds. 150 x 150 avatars are still fine. It makes the site look better.
B) Get rid of the badge system, keep mini-profile backgrounds.
I personally think option A is best, as many of the mini profiles end up making things ugly, cluttered, and just a mess with things being hard to read. But I care about you guys and wanna hear your thoughts, so go for it. Vote away~
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Post by [Vitz!] on Oct 19, 2015 0:51:07 GMT -5
If there was a way to make avatars themselves a bit bigger (maybe something vertical like 180x280 that I used in another forum some time ago) instead of using the backgrounds would be pretty nice.
But if we stick with 150x150 I'll pay no mind either so wtv.
Badge system looks promising, though. Keep it.
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Post by Akira on Oct 19, 2015 1:01:06 GMT -5
Keep the badges! I am used at the small avatars at forums. Improvemets are always welcome!
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Post by Yagyū on Oct 19, 2015 1:17:37 GMT -5
I'm okay with switching to a smaller avatar again! The badges sound nice, please keep them. ~
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Post by kinryuten on Oct 19, 2015 1:24:20 GMT -5
I like the idea of badges. I just need to catch 6 Pokemon lol.
But in all seriousness, do the badges.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 1:46:34 GMT -5
Hm, I'm gonna miss the mini backgrounds but I do kind of agree with Vitz on making the avatars a bit bigger. If not, then alright I'll accept whatever is given
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Post by Yagyū on Oct 19, 2015 1:48:56 GMT -5
Hm, I'm gonna miss the mini backgrounds but I do kind of agree with Vitz on making the avatars a bit bigger. If not, then alright I'll accept whatever is given As I recall with this host you actually have to make a modification to the forums code to have larger avatars beyond 150x 150 and have an image url for it too. ~
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Post by Poog on Oct 19, 2015 1:57:59 GMT -5
Hm, I'm gonna miss the mini backgrounds but I do kind of agree with Vitz on making the avatars a bit bigger. If not, then alright I'll accept whatever is given As I recall with this host you actually have to make a modification to the forums code to have larger avatars beyond 150x 150 and have an image url for it too. ~ Correct. And not having too much experience with code, admittedly I am a bit nervous about touching it, heheh.
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Post by Yagyū on Oct 19, 2015 2:03:09 GMT -5
As I recall with this host you actually have to make a modification to the forums code to have larger avatars beyond 150x 150 and have an image url for it too. ~ Correct. And not having too much experience with code, admittedly I am a bit nervous about touching it, heheh. That's understandable. It's only like 3 specific lines you have to make minor edits to though. "Proboards avatar size" should bring up how to resize the default avatars dimensions. If you're wanting to give it a try. ~
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Post by tzitzimine on Oct 19, 2015 2:22:39 GMT -5
I already say goodbye to my background image so bring those badges chief.
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Post by Poog on Oct 19, 2015 2:40:42 GMT -5
One other thing I forgot to mention -- the more badges you get, the more your background profile would grow. You'd have to be constantly remaking your background if you wanted to collect badges, lol.
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Post by Yagyū on Oct 19, 2015 2:42:01 GMT -5
I remember having to do that on another forum before. It was kinda annoying. ~
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Post by deathwish1988 on Oct 19, 2015 3:10:14 GMT -5
ill go with option A tho im new here and im new to the pro boards style so i didn't use the bigger avatar option , but ill go for whats better for site .
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Post by [Vitz!] on Oct 19, 2015 3:17:29 GMT -5
Proboards is the first one I see that actualy needs you to mess with the code to be able to use bigger avatars, lol. But that's a good thing. Maybe if I had acess to the code I could give it a look to see if I discover something. Looking into tutorials on the internet could also work. Also I should say that 180x280 pixels is exactly the size of that avatar I made years ago to put on perspective: Not too big and not to small in my opinion.
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Post by Yagyū on Oct 19, 2015 3:19:57 GMT -5
Yeah but the thing is you also have to edit to width of the miniprofiles too if I remember correctly and also the margin of posts so that text doesn't end up covering the profiles. You'd have to google it to find the 2 or 3 exact lines of code that would need to be adjusted. ~
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