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Topic: Time to bring back avatars (Read 2984 times)

sgk
legendary
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June 18, 2014, 02:16:34 AM
#63
whats an avatar?

Could you lend me yours for a day?  Grin
legendary
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June 18, 2014, 01:51:04 AM
#62
It would pose some security risk, the forum was previously hacked because of this. Not sure if the community want to giveup their security for changing of avatar.
legendary
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June 18, 2014, 01:31:08 AM
#61
yes
allow changing or adding avatars
hero member
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June 16, 2014, 06:07:37 PM
#60
Pleassssseeeee.

I want to get rid of this ugly Litecoin logo in my avatar.  Cheesy

If not re-enabling avatars, please at least allow us to delete our old ones.

Bitcoin 4 life

You can try contacting Theymos and see if he will do it for you. In all honesty though, I'd rather have a bad (depending on how bad) avatar than no avatar.
legendary
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June 16, 2014, 06:05:20 PM
#59
Pleassssseeeee.

I want to get rid of this ugly Litecoin logo in my avatar.  Cheesy

If not re-enabling avatars, please at least allow us to delete our old ones.

Bitcoin 4 life
legendary
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June 16, 2014, 05:02:04 PM
#58
yes it would be nice to bring avatars back!!! Smiley
newbie
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June 16, 2014, 04:26:20 PM
#57
If there's a security risk...obviously have to wait for the upgrade.   That being said, I like being able to "personalize" my profile with an avatar, so definitely looking forward to when they are able to be used.
newbie
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June 16, 2014, 02:41:38 PM
#56
As long as it is a security flaw no way.
hero member
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June 16, 2014, 12:56:20 PM
#55
This is the first forum when avatars are disabled for security reasons. And I don't get it why, really. So big and popular forum without avatars? It is time to bring them back imo.

Forum software has yet to be updated. If you look at the bottom, the version of SMF is 1.1.19. SMF is currently at 2.0.7 Stable.

We have an old forum software which may have unknown/known bugs with file uploads which could cause security issues.

I'm not saying I wouldn't like avatars... I just prefer a secure forum. This is a unique forum in the way it is run and is more of a target of exploits than others.

Security < Nice images.
legendary
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June 16, 2014, 12:52:04 PM
#54
This is the first forum when avatars are disabled for security reasons. And I don't get it why, really. So big and popular forum without avatars? It is time to bring them back imo.
newbie
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June 16, 2014, 06:40:09 AM
#53
yes we want avatar back
legendary
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June 15, 2014, 06:40:50 AM
#52
There's no point waiting for avatars until the new forum is complete. A new forum is going to replace this forum regardless.

If security is priority number one, then a security audit will surely need to be put into place upon logo reactivation. More money spent.
Yeah, we just have to wait for the new forum software.
hero member
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June 12, 2014, 03:18:42 PM
#51
There's no point waiting for avatars until the new forum is complete. A new forum is going to replace this forum regardless.

If security is priority number one, then a security audit will surely need to be put into place upon logo reactivation. More money spent.
sr. member
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June 12, 2014, 03:24:32 AM
#50
Changing avatars is disabled because of a security problem. They won't enable it until the new forum software.
What security problems arise from that?

Why did they get disabled anyway?

No idea about the details, but I believe it was disabled after the hack in Oct.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/about-the-recent-attack-306878
legendary
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June 11, 2014, 05:11:40 PM
#49
I would also love to finally be able to have an avatar. Smiley

Why did they get disabled anyway?

There were some issues at first, they disabled them saying they'll be fixed later. But ultimately they're not getting fixed until the new forum software arrives.

Here's the board created about the software

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0
hero member
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June 11, 2014, 05:06:04 PM
#48
I would also love to finally be able to have an avatar. Smiley

Why did they get disabled anyway?
legendary
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June 11, 2014, 04:31:38 PM
#47
It's in development now. There's an entire subforum dedicated to it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

What development needs to be done. All they need to do is enable it.
Changing avatars is disabled because of a security problem. They won't enable it until the new forum software.

What security problems arise from that?
legendary
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Merit: 1000
June 11, 2014, 07:56:00 AM
#46
It's in development now. There's an entire subforum dedicated to it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

What development needs to be done. All they need to do is enable it.
Changing avatars is disabled because of a security problem. They won't enable it until the new forum software.
full member
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June 11, 2014, 02:10:19 AM
#45
they' scare to death to be hacked again ...

be cool and people will be cool ... ortherwise .. people will start poke into simple machines again ...
legendary
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June 11, 2014, 01:53:56 AM
#44
Certainly wouldn't mind seeing this functionality re-enabled soon.
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