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Community The Great Avatar Purge

Discussion in 'RPG Codex News & Content Comments' started by DarkUnderlord, Oct 11, 2013.

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  1. DarkUnderlord Bringing that old Raptor magic.

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    Once upon a time, the Codex didn't allow you to have custom avatars, you had to choose from a gallery which was full of images from various RPGs and tactical games. This is because that custom avatar you wanted to use is stupid. And ugly.

    Then we upgraded to XenForo, and as that didn't have a built-in gallery feature, people used custom avatars for a time. And yay, avatars became stupid and ugly.

    Earlier this year however, we paid someone to build a gallery system for us because DU has not yet into OOP and XenForo code is foreign and strange to him. Also lack of time.

    We didn't remove old custom avatars at the time though, because we wanted to make sure the gallery was working properly. In the end, apart from some issues with GIF avatars (hence we've removed all GIF avatars from the gallery), everything seems to be working well. So the time has come to remove those custom avatars.

    However because of the way XenForo stores avatars (which is as a physical file based on your user id stashed under the data directory), there's no way to tell who has old custom avatars and who's already using an image from the gallery - without going through them one by one. So in the tradition of the Codex - in order to remove all old custom avatars - we just purged everything.

    That's why you've lost your avatar today.

    Those who had custom avatars as a result of some agreement (IE: Codexian troll avatars drawn by MCA during one of our fundraiser campaigns) will have them re-instated. I've gone through and re-added most of them for those users. If there's anyone I've missed, let me know.

    Otherwise, please feel free to peruse our gallery and choose an avatar that you feel suits you best. One day we may allow you to pay for a custom avatar because we're sell-outs like that. But that's one day, not today.
     
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  2. Mastermind Arcane Patron Bethestard

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    :mob:
     
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  3. Surf Solar cannot into womynz

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    :incline:
     
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  4. Fat Dragon Arbiter

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    :dance:
     
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  5. Monty Arcane

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    Some of the custom avatars were interesting. Were they really that much of a problem?

    (and meanwhileinPolands posts just won't be the same.... :()
     
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  6. FeelTheRads Arcane Patron

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    DU, can you fix my pig
     
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  7. Scrooge Female Quota Staff Patron

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    I just love the codex.









    PS: Fuck you, I want my Scrooge back :cry:
     
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  8. fizzelopeguss Arcane

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    ffs, arnie was perfect. get laid already.
     
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  9. evdk comrade troglodyte :M Patron

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    Konjad, you utter, utter cunt.
     
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  10. Infinitron I post news Patron

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    Grab the Codex by the pussy Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker
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  11. Jashiin Arcane

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    Panicked avatar gallery browsing
     
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  12. deuxhero Arcane

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    Hmm, now to find something as classy as a minimalist vector of an obscure game's logo.

    edit: this will do. I really dislike humans as avatars.
     
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  13. kazgar Arcane

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    DarkUnderlord , CmCC probably deserves his custom avatar still, even if he didn't donate potato.
     
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  14. Broseph Fabulous Hoosier Patron

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    :hero:
     
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  15. Mastermind Arcane Patron Bethestard

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    I wanted to pick the homm2 vampire lord but got an error, (something about the smallest dimension having to be bigger than half the biggest). plz fix.
     
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  16. Infinitron I post news Patron

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    We might want to consider sucking up to Developer posters by allowing them to use custom avatars, yes.
     
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  17. Micmu Magister

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    Those x-com avatars are absolute horse shit.
    Look how big I am now!!
     
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  18. Humanity has risen! Arcane Patron Repressed Homosexual

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    Finally those custom avatars were removed. Hopefully emoticons will be next, especially the oversized ones.
     
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  19. kazgar Arcane

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    Oh yeah, Adam Heine as well?
     
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  20. Cowboy Moment Arcane

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    At first I was happy. Much incline, great thanks to noble leader.

    Then I noticed the Prelude to Darkness gallery is incomplete. I'll resize and submit the full package myself, just need to know the preferred resolution and max size. Crooked Bee ?
     
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  21. Random Arcane Patron

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    God, DAMN it

    You had ONE JOB DU

    :negative:

    What am I without my Spiteful Crow avatar?
     
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  22. AstroZombie Arcane

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    :mob:
     
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  23. Johannes Arcane

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    bs
     
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  24. ~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T Arcane Patron

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    Well I'm no longer an ant. Might as well be a black man.
     
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  25. Menckenstein Lunacy of Caen: Todd Reaver

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    DarkUnderlord Mine was pretty sweet, I need Jihadi Hank back, thx.
     
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