Please, please, please make the avatar module go away
This is getting excruciating. You have finally given us the ability to NOT install the avatar module, but what's the point? If you don't install it, you are left with potentially thousands of little gray ghost thumbnails proliferating your site. Or am I missing something? Is that "Set as Avatar" action button supposed to work without the avatar module installed? It''s still there without the avatar module installed.
The avatar module/system is probably the worst idea that was ever implemented in Dolphin..... well, next to cooliris and open social that is. What is so hard about giving us the ability to use a scaled down profile photo as an avatar, just like the actions button suggests, WITHOUT installing the miserable, useless avatar module (No offense to the guy that created it.... I'm sure you were just listening to all the little weenies that whined for it, and I'm sure you meant well) .
Lot's of us folks are trying to create sites for grownups, and really don't want this kid stuff.
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We don't see that we should ship Avatars that pull from Photos by default, because there may be just as many web-masters willing to use alternative Photos module, and standard Avatars as there are those who want alternative Avatars and standard Photos. Some web-masters mat choose to not have Photos installed at all. So, they see more
http://ustillup.com/m/photos/home/
Browse through as many pages of public photos as you like, and notice how many of the "Photos" are titled 'Avatar'. Let me know if this tells you anything. I'm really anxious to hear what you think this signals.
What I'd like is to click on a profile photo and get a pop-up where I can change it, something like FB has. Maybe someone knows about a mod for this?
I have always been a proponent of making the core product as user friendly as possible, and that has yet to be done with the avatar see more
'hacks'. Whether or not such things are an improvement, is a matter of opinion, I'd hack this avatar issue, but they have it so inextricably woven into every single 7.0.9 feature, it's a nightmare.
They call it hacks, I call it Great Things In Life That Are For Free. :)
If it's inextricable and woven into, just rename it? Add some features to Profile photos and then rename it into something like My Top Photo? You know, if you can't beat them join them? After all, there is always Toyota and Lexus, so why can't be there Avatar and Profile Photo too? :)))
Just go to advanced settings -> profiles and set "profile photo" or "avatar" as member thumb and "profile photo icon" or "avatar icon" as member thumb icon.
See Andrew..... that wasn't so hard.
To OP (HL): You're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome.