Bug: Avatars are cropped to circle

[NTMBK]

For some reason, on my system all avatars are getting cropped down to a circle, meaning I can't see ~25% of them. Some sort of bug in the new software?

 

[Jodell88]

it isn't a bug, it's supposed to be a circle.

 

[FerrelGeek]

I can't upload an avi

 

[NTMBK]

it isn't a bug, it's supposed to be a circle.

Well that's dumb.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I've seen other XenForo forums with square avatars. Maybe it's a setting in the XenForo software.

 

[Ken g6]

It's definitely a style setting. You can change it with CSS. And avatars are square if you click a user's username.

 

[Ajay]

How do I change it with CSS? I'm not a web developer.

 

[NTMBK]

Yeah, making a setting in the forum preferences would be great. I don't want to go hacking stylesheets.

 

[Leros]

Circle pictures are the new cool thing

 

[hal2kilo]

Circle pictures are the new cool thing

Oh cool. Just what I needed for my old dial phone. I can't replace the phone number with my circle avatar.

 

[NTMBK]

So is this ever getting fixed?

 

[Titillating]

There is nothing to fix. This is not a bug.

 

[balloonshark]

99.99% of all pics on the web have corners yet whoever came up with round avatars completely ignored this hard fact. If that's not bad enough it basically takes 25% of the square pic/avatar and throws it away by cropping it round. This is a huge waste of space. Why don't forum designers use common sense in favor of making a change for the sake of change?

 

[NTMBK]

There is nothing to fix. This is not a bug.

It's messed up hundreds of pieces of user-uploaded content, sounds like a bug to me.

 

[Titillating]

Your user-uploaded content was uploaded with the intention of being a square avatar in vB. XenForo displays them as circles. This is not a bug, it's a change. If you don't like it, simply alter your avatar.

 

[NTMBK]

Your user-uploaded content was uploaded with the intention of being a square avatar in vB. XenForo displays them as circles. This is not a bug, it's a change. If you don't like it, simply alter your avatar.

Can we not alter the software settings instead...?

 

[Titillating]

Can we not alter the software settings instead...?

Adapt, friend. We've bigger fish to fry at the moment than this, and it is not a simple toggling of options but would require code changes across a variety of templates. The three weeks you've spent complaining about this would have provided you ample time to crop an image.

 

[FeuerFrei]

The VB Style theme, available in the Style Chooser below, renders all avatars in glorious squareness.

Isn't my favorite theme, but it's the only alternative right now that doesn't involve Stylish.

 

[Ajay]

The VB Style theme, available in the Style Chooser below, renders all avatars in glorious squareness.

Isn't my favorite theme, but it's the only alternative right now that doesn't involve Stylish.

Yeah, that's what I'm using till I can find a dark theme that I like.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Adapt, friend. We've bigger fish to fry at the moment than this, and it is not a simple toggling of options but would require code changes across a variety of templates. The three weeks you've spent complaining about this would have provided you ample time to crop an image.

No, it's a very simple CSS change, not a code change. But I do understand that you have better things to worry about.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Seems to suddenly be fixed?

 

[NTMBK]

OMG, they're square! Thanks guys!

 

[Ketchup]

OMG, they're square! Thanks guys!

Yeah. Things were so much simpler before when nothing ever changed and nobody cared. Well, this is a tech forum, so I guess we can't have that! lol!

 

[Titillating]

We make 'em circles, people complain about change. We make 'em squares again, people complain about the lack of change. Just can't win with you guys

 

[Ketchup]

You can't! Lol. Livin' to wine!

Personally, I didn't care either way. So if more members are happier with the square, then job well done!