Make avatars hotlink-only?

byakko

Hello, is there a way to remove the upload function for avatars and make them hotlink-only?
Animated .GIF avatars don't work through photo upload and having them on the local server may take up too much space.
Thank you!

peregrine

perhaps this search "prevent avatar uploads" will help you.

http://vanillaforums.org/search?adv=&search=prevent+avatar+uploads&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&discussion_question=1&comment_c=1&comment_answer=1&page_p=1&within=1+day&date=

not sure what you mean by hot-link but there are numerous avatar plugins

gravatars, vanillicons defaultavatar , etc.

vrijvlinder

To save an animated gif as an avatar add this to the config.php

$Configuration['Garden']['Thumbnail']['SaveGif'] = TRUE;

peregrine

Yet I thought he said he didn't want animated avatars lol.

I know I wouldn't allow them, it would chase all the forum members away.

vrijvlinder

This would make an awesome avatar

byakko

@peregrine said:
perhaps this search "prevent avatar uploads" will help you.

http://vanillaforums.org/search?adv=&search=prevent+avatar+uploads&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&discussion_question=1&comment_c=1&comment_answer=1&page_p=1&within=1+day&date=

not sure what you mean by hot-link but there are numerous avatar plugins

gravatars, vanillicons defaultavatar , etc.

I'm good with disabling avatar uploads, but I'm trying to look for a way to allow users to set external image links as their avatars.

For example, a user can just paste this image link http://i.imgur.com/KHh5kwq.gif within their avatar settings and it would set as their avatar without it being hosted on the local forum. It's called "Import a photo from a URL" in IPB.

-

Also I think it would be better if there was just 1 avatar, not a thumbnail and a large one. The thumbnail one can just be a css-resized version of the large one.

vrijvlinder

Changing size of avatar with only css does not make image weight smaller and if you use hover zoom it is very annoying to constantly see the larger image pop up when you hover an avatar to see their name.

I would recommend not to load up your forum with external link requests. It will cause more problems than hosting the images in the forum.

byakko

Or just have a consistent 100x100 avatar throughout the forum like most forums without any resizing. I guess I'm fine with hosting it local rather than external, but is it possible to not resize the image? (Animated .GIF avatars lose their animation when resized.) Image weight isn't really an issue in this case.

vrijvlinder

To save an animated gif as an avatar that is still animating add this to the config.php

$Configuration['Garden']['Thumbnail']['SaveGif'] = TRUE;

this defines the size of the avatar in profile page

$Configuration['Garden']['Profile']['MaxHeight']= 1000;
$Configuration['Garden']['Profile']['MaxWidth'] = 250;

this defines the size of the thumbnail for the avatar

$Configuration['Garden']['Thumbnail']['Size'] = 40;

byakko

@vrijvlinder OMG it worked! Thank you so much!