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Title: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on June 24, 2012, 10:58:20 pm

I didn't know tiny images could be placed in Custom Titles back when users had control over them. Could the image in this user's Custom Title be fixed or something? (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=2221) The link to the Firefox download page still works, though.

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: Goober5000 on June 25, 2012, 02:37:54 am

Wow, that is a blast from the past.  The "Get Firefox" custom titles were used way back during the time when Firefox became 1.0.  I'm pretty sure we were still using vBulletin at the time too.  They weren't added by the users themselves; they were assigned by admins on request.  I think Sandwich was the main guy behind them, but I could be misremembering.  Whoever it was stopped adding them when he realized it was stretching our "no avatars" policy.

I'm half inclined to leave it there out of nostalgia. :)

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: headdie on June 25, 2012, 02:44:21 am

I just get a broken image link icon lol

personally I say leave it, it's one of those quirks this community has developed over the years and it's not being abused at the moment so no harm done

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: mjn.mixael on June 25, 2012, 08:41:11 am

ew.. broken image link. The developer in me cringes everytime I see that.

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on June 25, 2012, 10:35:15 am

At the very least, couldn't the broken image be replaced with something of similar size (http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&q=get+firefox+icon&oq=get+firefox+icon&gs_l=img.3..0i5i24.2974.5591.0.7063.16.16.0.0.0.0.141.1109.13j1.14.0...0.0.0im8TNbsspo#q=get+firefox+icon&gbv=2&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=isz:ex,iszw:80,iszh:15)? It's rather jarring to see the broken image icon considering that most broken images on forum threads just show up as blank spaces.

I probably truncated the URL wrong, but it ends up at the page where I want it to be so I'm not too bothered.

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: The E on June 25, 2012, 10:45:38 am

Aside question:

Why do you care?

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: MatthTheGeek on June 25, 2012, 10:48:49 am

Probably because of something similar to:

Quote from: mjn.mixael on June 25, 2012, 08:41:11 am

ew.. broken image link. The developer in me cringes everytime I see that.

Also, the thread title couldn't be more explicit about it being a nitpick to begin with.

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: The E on June 25, 2012, 10:51:37 am

Speaking of broken image links then, there's quite a few of them on the Moderation pages (Especially the "Reported posts" page).

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: mjn.mixael on June 25, 2012, 11:11:50 am

Yeah.. I try not to look at that page.. for the same reason as stated above.

Title: Re: Some Minor Nitpicking About Another Member's Title
Post by: Flipside on June 27, 2012, 05:37:24 pm

Clave is an old Warpstorm member who used to pop by from time to time, nice guy, older than me, massive fan of aircraft :)