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Whenever you link something (with; ) it doesn't seem to resize it, which has caused some people to have an overloaded screen whenever I link to 1,000+ x 1,000+ pictures for my secondary avatar. x;

So I sort of fixed my problem, I had to get the penguin pic sized down to make it work. There should definitely be some resizing done on Member Title images though.

Member titles aren't meant to be images, on account of their being titles.

;P

But why not use an awesome feature like [IMG] to spruce it up?
Double the avatar, double the fun!

Because that's not what it's meant for.

ORLY?

Admin is my title and doesn't break the layout.

Because it is a tiny image, I assume. What if it was the same 'Admin' title, but bigger? It would break the format. :/

I'm just saying, resizing is already a thing for avatars. Is it that hard to do for that portion too?
Say if I wanted to make a fancy image at high quality and have it resize it for me automatically?
If it is just impossible to do I'll quit bitching. :/

ORLY?

Haha, you've got a point. But even if they are pictures, member titles should be titles, not...whatever that is.


Wait, JW, what the fuck is that thing?

It's to go with this month's Avatar theme...


Edit:
In case you haven't seen it before, those characters are from a show called Adventure Time (it's the best).
It's a Batman/Adventure Time mashup.

The problem is that those things are processed in two completely different ways.

Since there's the expectation that any avatar will be an image, an html img tag is in place in the forum skin to hold it, and thus anything you put in the avatar field in your profile will be placed in that code with the intention of pulling an image. Notice what happens if you give it something that's wrong or not even a URL...it displays an empty image. Because the code expect it to always be an image and has the image tags in the skin, it's a simple matter to attach CSS code to it restricting its' size.

On the other hand, there's no such expectation that a personal title will be an image...in fact, by design they should never be images. We added that ability in ourselves when we changed the code to parse any BB code that was typed into the field. This means that there is no html img tag that we can attach additional specifications to...that code is generated by the forum when it reads the [img] tag. As far as the software is concerned, there's no difference between parsing BB code in a personal title or in a forum post, and there's where you run into the problem.

If you change the [img] tag parsing code, it's going to apply that to images made in posts as well. Thus, another piece of code and a modification would need to be made specifying whether the code was being parsed for a post or a title and if it's a title, change the image tag that it generates. And then unless you used optional variables, you would have to go back to every instance of code that calls that functionality within the forums and change it to the new format.

I know how it may seem like it should be a simple change, but unfortunately it is not. It may be something I look into in the future, but there are just higher priority things. In the meantime, if we can self-moderate our image sizes, that would be awesome.

The problem is that those things are processed in two completely different ways.

Since there's the expectation that any avatar will be an image, an html img tag is in place in the forum skin to hold it, and thus anything you put in the avatar field in your profile will be placed in that code with the intention of pulling an image. Notice what happens if you give it something that's wrong or not even a URL...it displays an empty image. Because the code expect it to always be an image and has the image tags in the skin, it's a simple matter to attach CSS code to it restricting its' size.

On the other hand, there's no such expectation that a personal title will be an image...in fact, by design they should never be images. We added that ability in ourselves when we changed the code to parse any BB code that was typed into the field. This means that there is no html img tag that we can attach additional specifications to...that code is generated by the forum when it reads the [img] tag. As far as the software is concerned, there's no difference between parsing BB code in a personal title or in a forum post, and there's where you run into the problem.

If you change the [img] tag parsing code, it's going to apply that to images made in posts as well. Thus, another piece of code and a modification would need to be made specifying whether the code was being parsed for a post or a title and if it's a title, change the image tag that it generates. And then unless you used optional variables, you would have to go back to every instance of code that calls that functionality within the forums and change it to the new format.

I know how it may seem like it should be a simple change, but unfortunately it is not. It may be something I look into in the future, but there are just higher priority things. In the meantime, if we can self-moderate our image sizes, that would be awesome.

I love it when you talk technical to me, baby.

Oh you. <3

You should still just like, make a new BB code, just for moi ;P [avatar][/avatar]