off-site Avatar??

[Wellcky]

Just wonder if you guys are thinking of letting us link to an off-site Avatar like in phpBB 2.0.0?

 

[Angrymarshmello]

It won't be happening

Say 200 different people respond to a thread. The server will have to contact 200 other different servers to get their custom avatars. AT has enough bandwith issues at it is.

 

[Wellcky]

not even 4 us subscribers!!!

 

[ProviaFan]

I browse with the avtars turned off, but still, the bandwidth issues, as RB has brought up, would affect me. I hope it won't be happening.

 

[Joel Kleppinger]

There wouldn't be "bandwidth issues." It's not bandwidth AT would have to pay for if it's linked.

Now page load times would be a different thing. That could be negatively affected.

Not that I care what happens.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

oops, Joel's right - page load times is what I meant to say.

It's been brought up before and turned down without a thought

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Along these lines, it would be "possible" to have a default set of avatars that you're able to skin entirely on the client side. The server would send out the filename to pull from the cache (if it's not there it would send it from the default) and the user could replace the default with one of their own. Since the actual number of avatars wouldn't be increased, the bandwidth difference(s) would be next to nothing.

Guessing this would take a bit of tweaking in the forum code (read: not gonna happen anytime soon), but it would allow you to further customize your neffing experience.

 

[jcovercash]

I think that a new feature for subscribers could be the ability to upload 1 custom avatar, and you could delete it if you wanted and upload a new one.

cuz if you read the thing on the today page about the subscribers

...plus much more to come

u see that, i think it woudl be cool for subscribers to ahve that feature


Josh

 

[Hossenfeffer]

AFAIK, the general consensus is it's not kosher to add features that plainly differentiate between subscribers/non-subscribers (custom avatars and such). If there were an easy way to substitute the avatars you want to see (but only on your machine), this would give a certain degree of novelty value without placing extra load on the servers.

 

[Jason Clark]

Hiya, linking to outside images is not something our forums can't do, it's something we turn off and do not allow. We won't do this as it will negatively impact other users browsing.

 

[DRGrim]

As something along these lines, would it be technically possible to make an "AnandTech Browser"? Or even a less specific FuseTalk browser?
This would be a small client that you would download, and would build the webpage itself by bypassing the webservers. This would use less bandwidth (I think), and would allow for features like custom avatars (or unique avatars for each person), ignoring, automatically loading images within the post, et cetera. That way, each person could choose which features of FuseTalk they want, without messing it up for everyone else.
What do you think?

 

[bizmark]

Originally posted by: DRGrim
As something along these lines, would it be technically possible to make an "AnandTech Browser"? Or even a less specific FuseTalk browser?
This would be a small client that you would download, and would build the webpage itself by bypassing the webservers. This would use less bandwidth (I think), and would allow for features like custom avatars (or unique avatars for each person), ignoring, automatically loading images within the post, et cetera. That way, each person could choose which features of FuseTalk they want, without messing it up for everyone else.
What do you think?

even better would be something that created a local cache of all of the threads that I've read, so if I have a thread open on my screen, say with 20 replies, then hit "F5" to reload, and there's now 23 replies, I download just the 3 NEW posts and not the stuff that I've already read. That would kick ass bandwidth-wise, but it'd be fairly complicated to implement, I think. And hey, we've already got newsgroups, right?

 

[FelixDeCat]

>not even 4 us subscribers!!!

Let me guess, you want to be a cow right?