Time to bring back avatars

[jeffersonairplane]

It's in development now. There's an entire subforum dedicated to it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

What development needs to be done. All they need to do is enable it.

[Yuki1988]

It's in development now. There's an entire subforum dedicated to it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

What development needs to be done. All they need to do is enable it.

The new forum software is in development. We will have a completely new software around next Feb.

[ajareselde]

There are alot of other things that must be done.
Avatar is nice, but u shouldnt put bling bling infront of your info safety

[nwfella]

Certainly wouldn't mind seeing this functionality re-enabled soon.

[knightcoin]

they' scare to death to be hacked again ...

be cool and people will be cool ... ortherwise .. people will start poke into simple machines again ...

[oli123123]

It's in development now. There's an entire subforum dedicated to it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

What development needs to be done. All they need to do is enable it.

Changing avatars is disabled because of a security problem. They won't enable it until the new forum software.

[jeffersonairplane]

It's in development now. There's an entire subforum dedicated to it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

What development needs to be done. All they need to do is enable it.

Changing avatars is disabled because of a security problem. They won't enable it until the new forum software.

What security problems arise from that?

[Acidyo]

I would also love to finally be able to have an avatar.

Why did they get disabled anyway?

[alani123]

I would also love to finally be able to have an avatar.

Why did they get disabled anyway?

There were some issues at first, they disabled them saying they'll be fixed later. But ultimately they're not getting fixed until the new forum software arrives.

Here's the board created about the software

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=167.0

[Pkofet]

Changing avatars is disabled because of a security problem. They won't enable it until the new forum software.

What security problems arise from that?

Why did they get disabled anyway?

No idea about the details, but I believe it was disabled after the hack in Oct.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306878.0

[Initscri]

There's no point waiting for avatars until the new forum is complete. A new forum is going to replace this forum regardless.

If security is priority number one, then a security audit will surely need to be put into place upon logo reactivation. More money spent.

[oli123123]

There's no point waiting for avatars until the new forum is complete. A new forum is going to replace this forum regardless.

If security is priority number one, then a security audit will surely need to be put into place upon logo reactivation. More money spent.

Yeah, we just have to wait for the new forum software.

[drugo]

yes we want avatar back

[Hazir]

This is the first forum when avatars are disabled for security reasons. And I don't get it why, really. So big and popular forum without avatars? It is time to bring them back imo.

[Initscri]

This is the first forum when avatars are disabled for security reasons. And I don't get it why, really. So big and popular forum without avatars? It is time to bring them back imo.

Forum software has yet to be updated. If you look at the bottom, the version of SMF is 1.1.19. SMF is currently at 2.0.7 Stable.

We have an old forum software which may have unknown/known bugs with file uploads which could cause security issues.

I'm not saying I wouldn't like avatars... I just prefer a secure forum. This is a unique forum in the way it is run and is more of a target of exploits than others.

Security < Nice images.

[21-hater]

As long as it is a security flaw no way.

[Malok]

If there's a security risk...obviously have to wait for the upgrade.   That being said, I like being able to "personalize" my profile with an avatar, so definitely looking forward to when they are able to be used.

[Joca97]

yes it would be nice to bring avatars back!!!

[CoinHoarder]

Pleassssseeeee.

I want to get rid of this ugly Litecoin logo in my avatar.  

If not re-enabling avatars, please at least allow us to delete our old ones.

Bitcoin 4 life

[Initscri]

Pleassssseeeee.

I want to get rid of this ugly Litecoin logo in my avatar.  

If not re-enabling avatars, please at least allow us to delete our old ones.

Bitcoin 4 life

You can try contacting Theymos and see if he will do it for you. In all honesty though, I'd rather have a bad (depending on how bad) avatar than no avatar.