Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Hello, I am wondering if anyone has ever thought of letting us post pics of ourselves on our profiles. I mean, I know most of us are blind but, I mean I would still like any sighted person to put a face to my voice and/or postings.
This's been suggested numerous times, and as I recall, the answer has always come down towards a no. Pictures take a good bit of space, and it'd take bandwidth to push them down. If you want to make a picture of yourself available, post a link to it in your profile. But that's just been what's been said in the past. If you have a suggestion about it, and think it's better, feel free to toss it out.
Oh, another thing against pictures is that for the dialup people (yes, some peple still use dial up, though it makes me cry for them in sympathy), pictures would probably make the profiles load a lot slower I'd think. Though perhaps that could be solved by making the pictures behind a link, or a checkbox in account settings that would allow you to not get pictures. I'm not that advanced in making websites, so I don't know how hard that'd be, a't least the second one.
To clarify this, no, we're not against the idea. It was just never implemented.
well I already posted my pic and twitter and stuff urls on my profile. so for some crazy reason if you wondered what I looked like there you go.
If the profiles allowed it, you could use the <img> tag to link to a picture of yourself on an external server. The syntax for this is:
<img src="http://www.somenet.com/some_picture.jpg" width="[desired width]" height="[desired height]" alt="[some text describing the image]"/>