Avatars: The Last Pollbender

[Mogri]

Which shape do you prefer?

 

[Torzelbaum]

I think square would show a bit more of me but circle is still good enough.

 

[Zef]

I've just resized my regular and Xmas avatars to better fit the circle instead of looking like I ran headlong into a window, so I'm good either way. I feel like I'm not taking advantage of the empty space, though.

Does the forum support transparencies?

EDIT: Just realized that the default mode applies a white backdrop to my transparent PNG, and the After Dark mode applies a black backdrop. I'm good

 

[Falselogic]

Meh!

 

[Patrick]

It will take up the same amount of space either way, and some people could use the extra real estate. And if you like circles, you could still upload a circle shaped avatar. I’m not any good with transparencies, but I’m pretty sure there’s a way to do it.

 

[JBear]

I voted for circle simply because I optimized this newest avatar to display in a circle and don't want to have to revisit it so soon.

Embrace change!

 

[Cadenza]

I'm honestly fine with either way, but I voted for circle because I think it looks pretty stylish!

 

[Kirin]

I'm not sure whether it spites my face, but the circle definitely cuts off the tip of my nose!

 

[Mogri]

ROUND 2. FIGHT!

What are our feelings on "square but with rounded corners"?

 

[Vaeran]

Rounded square looks perfect. Don't change a thing.

Thanks for doing this. The circular avatars kind of bothered me but I thought it was too trivial an issue to bring up. This looks way better.

 

[Patrick]

I prefer this to circles

 

[Droewyn]

I'm good with it.

 

[Destil]

All circles will fit within the square.
If you want a circle just trim your avatar image.

 

[keurig]

Woah, this is great!

might rotate back to another avatar now

 

[Kirin]

Overall, the rounded corners look is neat! I like it, looking at other people's avatars.

OTOH, it does really weird things to *mine*, 'cause I had a one-pixel square border on it, which now gets cut off oddly. I don't necessarily hate it, but I might go back and remove it at some point.

 

[Falselogic]

Well now I miss the rounded ones?!

 

[Vaeran]

Shhh, no you don't.

 

[Paul le Fou]

I like the rounded square! I suppose I should get an avatar.

 

[Destil]

Looks like I fucked up the transparency, though.

 

[q 3]

Hmm.

 

[Cadenza]

Rounded square looks good! Best of both worlds.

 

[Yimothy]

Looks like I’m in the minority here but I’d prefer sharp corners.

 

[JBear]

Looks like I’m in the minority here but I’d prefer sharp corners.

I got you, fam:

 

[Issun]

From ATARI plane to ATARI comfy bed.

 

[Yimothy]

This must be what the report function is for. Not really.

 

[Lady]

guess I should an av before I'm associated with seafoam green forever

 

[Lady]

request for the background color to be removed tho

 

[Mogri]

The background color is automatically added to fit the theme (white for light themes, black for dark themes). As far as I know, it's the only thing that changes when I tell the system a theme is light or dark -- all of the theme colors are configured separately, so I could lie about whether a theme is light or dark if I wanted -- and I don't have any control over that behavior.

If it's any consolation, it blends in really nicely in night mode.

 

[Lady]

Replace instances of "@xf-AvatarBG" in template > core_avatar.less with "transparent". or find out where template variables are defined.

 

[Paul le Fou]

The background color is automatically added to fit the theme (white for light themes, black for dark themes). As far as I know, it's the only thing that changes when I tell the system a theme is light or dark -- all of the theme colors are configured separately, so I could lie about whether a theme is light or dark if I wanted -- and I don't have any control over that behavior.

If it's any consolation, it blends in really nicely in night mode.

Hm, yours is still white all around the moogle. Or am I misunderstanding?