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Name: Clutch

Suggestion: Allow Animated/Gif profiles avatars on basic forum accounts.

Why should we implement this? I feel that it is more visually pleasing along with the fact that Head Admin+ and retried Staff can have it so why shouldn't everyone else?

How will this improve the Forums? I think people could express themselves more on the forms and add a bit more personality to their profile.

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+1 swag bitch

yuh everyone should have the option

(dont ask how I already have one :D)

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I'd be happy to allow it, but be aware that mobile clients will take a much longer time to load each thread, and depending on how the service we use implemented caching it could lead to longer load times even on a normal we browser. 

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+1 

Time for my JoJo gif

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  I'm going to tag everyone that's currently voted to ensure they see this and can re-evaluate their votes should they choose to do so.

@Marvel @Aeon @Black @Dinaric @BigZach @Taz @Bleach @Conrad @Guac @Arizona @Tinovious @Neptune @Slak @Finn @Deathtiger @maverIck

 

This is just a reminder that this has been suggested before and denied by the old Founders.

On 7/14/2018 at 7:43 PM, Joah said:

No, It causes performance issues. It also can cause a Cache overflow.

This is something we can test out if everyone wants it, however it could cause a forums crash that may require us to do a massive cache clear again, causing the loss of a lot of things on the forums.

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Tbh if its going to cause such a big issue for the fourms its just not worth going through the trouble so some femboys can have their anime girlfriends come to life for a few seconds. ill change my vote to a -1

 

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knowing what I know now, -1. 

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Well rip this suggestion.

Maybe animated pfps could become store items in the future? Maybe apart of that big forums pack or something along the line. Just an idea

Updating to a -1 sorry 

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2 hours ago, Forseen said:

  I'm going to tag everyone that's currently voted to ensure they see this and can re-evaluate their votes should they choose to do so.

@Marvel @Aeon @Black @Dinaric @BigZach @Taz @Bleach @Conrad @Guac @Arizona @Tinovious @Neptune @Slak @Finn @Deathtiger @maverIck

 

This is just a reminder that this has been suggested before and denied by the old Founders.

This is something we can test out if everyone wants it, however it could cause a forums crash that may require us to do a massive cache clear again, causing the loss of a lot of things on the forums.

I just wanted to to make our first kiss my Profile picture, Shucks. :( -1 

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Man you guys switch opinions fast.

@Forseen when you say it could cause a massive crash, how big a chance is this? And how hard would it be to back up the current forums info? 

I guess also at that point how much effort would Founders/Devs be willing to put into a suggestion like this?

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On 5/21/2021 at 9:33 AM, Daytona211 said:


I'd be happy to allow it, but be aware that mobile clients will take a much longer time to load each thread, and depending on how the service we use implemented caching it could lead to longer load times even on a normal we browser. 

@Forseen

This is correct. The main reason for only allowing certain groups animated avatars was simply due to optimization, it was never about being special or “cool kids only”. Our cache system isn’t optimal (wasn’t implemented by me) and we didn’t want mobile devices, or slower connections to have any significant load times.

With that being said, it’s always better to deploy changes like this in small batches rather than forcing everyone to reset their avatar one day due to a performance issue. This was the main reason we only allowed it on certain groups.

I haven’t touched the ACP in months as @Forseenhas mostly taken over my old role and I act as a Consultant when needed, he’s welcome to enable gif avatars for all users if he wishes to do so, but understand the negative performance impact it may have and also the pain-in-the-ass it is to reset all avatars like we’ve had to do in the past.
 

My recommendation would be to only allow this if the current cache system is optimized; and understand it still may have a negative performance impact. They probably already know this, but @ Forum Adminshould never touch the cache settings unless you explicitly know what you are doing and have potential support from our host as it can be wonky.

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Fuck performance issues. +1

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On 5/28/2021 at 6:26 PM, Brooklyn said:

Fuck performance issues. +1

Agreed get these forum campers to go outside for once instead of sitting on the forums all day +1

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