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Jacob Bugge
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March 12, 2009
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The say of the natives

  • March 12, 2009
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Quite a few times it has been claimed in these threads that the posters are few, do not represent the average, and so on.

Seemingly this leads the claimers to the conclusion that the strong support of the present forum appearance and the consequent strong objections to the complete change anticipated, and at least partially confirmed, does not represent a general opinion among forum members.

However, I am convinced that the objections to the anticipated change are widespread among the product forum members, especially among frequent posters, and especially among those contributing answers.

As far as I can see in the product forums that I contribue to or follow, at least 3/4 of the questions are answered by forum regulars such as myself that never, or very rarely, ask questions themselves. This means that we may be few in number, but not in terms of contributing to the forums.

Actually, only few regulars in the product forums post in the general forums at all, except perhaps on very rare occasions, but all the reactions I saw after the nightmare of the aborted forum merge were clear: Everyone resented not only the serious issues, but also the very format, which was not that far from what we are anticipating here, based upon the feedback so far.

All other product forum members post (questions) much less frequently, but stil, all the reactions I saw after aborted forum merge were the same.

Consequently, as far as I can see, what is posted here in these threads is the say of the natives.
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    March 16, 2009
    The option exists to have members of communities upload their own. It can also be set up to moderate all avatar uploads. I don't know what decision has been made at this point tho.
    March 16, 2009
    So we are left with Cutesy Comic-Cuts space-wasters?

    All the more reason for banning them all together, in that case.
    March 16, 2009
    I looked it up again. Here it says:

    >Since avatars are a highly used graphic in the system, we actually convert them to a static png to make sure they are available quickly to the app; therefore, we do not support animated gifs for avatars or profile photos.
    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    March 16, 2009
    I very much doubt it ;)
    PJonesCET
    Participating Frequently
    March 16, 2009
    > One thing I did see in the docs is that animated gifs are converted to something else, forgot exactly what tho.

    Most like it would be a flash movie which takes up less bandwidth than than animated gif file.
    March 16, 2009
    >I meant for avatars!

    me too! :)
    Inspiring
    March 16, 2009
    dave milbut:

    That is too much!

    :)
    Participating Frequently
    March 16, 2009
    I meant for avatars!
    March 16, 2009
    One thing I did see in the docs is that animated gifs are converted to something else, forgot exactly what tho.

    The reason I've been trying to dig in the docs is to see what is allowed within the software since John has said they aren't going to customize it. So far I haven't found a lot of answers, but I haven't had a whole lot of time either.
    March 15, 2009
    but, but...