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Welcome to Metro Jacksonville => Feedback and Suggestions => Topic started by: Charles Hunter on March 03, 2023, 06:18:27 PM

Title: Animated Avatars
Post by: Charles Hunter on March 03, 2023, 06:18:27 PM
Can we get rid of animated avatars? They are highly annoying when trying to read a thread. I would guess they eat some bandwidth, too.  A couple of other message boards I frequent have banned them.

My apologies if this is always the subject of a thread here, but I'm not scrolling through 7 pages of titles ...
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: JPalmer on March 07, 2023, 03:50:23 PM
Lol, there is only one person I know who has an animated avatar on here that I can recall. Have you tried telling them directly?
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: Charles Hunter on March 07, 2023, 04:56:08 PM
I see 2 regularly - simms3 and snaketoz
And, no, I have not confronted them directly.
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: Jason on March 08, 2023, 08:14:03 AM
<----  This guy has an animated avatar...  :-)


Charles, are you viewing the site on your phone/tablet or on a PC?

Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: Charles Hunter on March 08, 2023, 08:41:28 AM
OK, 3  :)

Tabletish - specifically Microsoft Surface Pro 6 with the add-on keyboard
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: Jason on March 08, 2023, 11:00:57 AM
Yeah, on the smaller screens I can see where the avatars might be a bit distracting.

I removed mine for ya
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: Snaketoz on March 08, 2023, 12:04:58 PM
Wow, I wish everything I didn't like would disappear.
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: jaxlongtimer on March 08, 2023, 04:22:04 PM
My first wish for our Jaxson team leaders would be a search function for all the blog posts  ;D.  Trying to find old threads so as not to recreate/repeat the same back and forth or to add updates would be nice.

Thanks for all you do to host this site.  We appreciate the effort!
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: Charles Hunter on March 08, 2023, 08:59:22 PM
Quote from: jaxlongtimer on March 08, 2023, 04:22:04 PM
My first wish for our Jaxson team leaders would be a search function for all the blog posts  ;D.  Trying to find old threads so as not to recreate/repeat the same back and forth or to add updates would be nice.

Thanks for all you do to host this site.  We appreciate the effort!

Yes! Given a choice, I would continue to manually hide the animated avatars if this site had a functioning search function.

And a better way to provide links - the vBulletin-based boards I'm on allow you to make any word in a post a hot link, instead of having the full URL as visible text.
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: Lunican on March 08, 2023, 09:47:26 PM
Quote from: Charles Hunter on March 08, 2023, 08:59:22 PM
Yes! Given a choice, I would continue to manually hide the animated avatars if this site had a functioning search function.

And a better way to provide links - the vBulletin-based boards I'm on allow you to make any word in a post a hot link, instead of having the full URL as visible text.

Here is how you do that:

[url=http://www.metrojacksonville.com]link text[/url]
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: jaxlongtimer on March 08, 2023, 10:16:30 PM
Just found a couple of more items to look into:

(A) Posted in the "Break Room" but that wouldn't post to the bulletin board.  So, (B) I went to "remove" the post from "Break Room" and reposted under "News."  Received an error message saying I can't remove my own topic. 
Title: Re: Animated Avatars
Post by: BridgeTroll on March 09, 2023, 07:27:48 AM
Quote from: jaxlongtimer on March 08, 2023, 10:16:30 PM
Just found a couple of more items to look into:

(A) Posted in the "Break Room" but that wouldn't post to the bulletin board.  So, (B) I went to "remove" the post from "Break Room" and reposted under "News."  Received an error message saying I can't remove my own topic. 
I removed the Break room  post for you...