Avatars

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In order to cut down on bandwidth usage and server strain, we have re-implemented Remote Avatars.

What this means, is when you go to change your avatar, and you put a url in the box, the server just stores the URL, and then when showing your avatar, if gives the URL so that the web browser gets the image from the original location.

This saves strain on the server, because it no longer needs to query the mySQL database to get the avatar file (When you upload an avatar, it uploads into the database).

You can still use the upload from computer option if needed, but we would prefer if you uploaded your image to somewhere like image shack, and then used the remote hosting option.


Edit: I can't help but notice that this aint showing the right avatars in the post bit >.< I'll fix it when i get home.

Edit2: Fixed :)
 

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Yes, Yes i am, thanks for asking. Stay on topic and dont psot on old threads :P