Metropol

Commencing with the upgrade to Metropol 7.1 (at some point this week)...

1. Avatars must be in 16:9 ratio and have a width of 150px
For ease of use the avatar uploader will be set to accept 84 and 85 as acceptable heights, but only 150 as a width.
2. Avatars cannot be shatliffed into 16:9
They must (preferably) be recropped from the original source image. There will be no substandard upscaling either (ronnie)
3. Avatars must be a clear photo of your face and nobody elses (david) and you must be close enough to the camera and well lit enough to be visible (stuart)
4. er....
5. that's it


There'll be a two day grace period for those with analogue avatars to upgrade, after which all analogue avatars will be removed.


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With digital switchover just round the corner, there is an important announcement coming regarding avatars. Care to guess what?

Mandatory enforcement? Rendered in Ascii but using 1s and 0s only?

PNG only! No...

Clear images with rules like those you get with passport applications?

Nini wrote:Mandatory enforcement?

tempting, but no

Our avatars have to be in HD? Like Chair's?

Will they all be rearranged so they're 3px to to the left, to free up the old space taken up by analogue avatars?

We need a new plug-in to see them in future? Oh, all avatars are going to be crushed down into five separate images, all of which are nowhere near big enough to look like anything more than a mishmash of pixels.

I refuse to have an avatar.

Jamez wrote:I refuse to have an avatar.

I thought you were rather proud of your looks, Jamez.

Hymagumba wrote:With digital switchover just round the corner, there is an important announcement coming regarding avatars. Care to guess what?

I have no idea.

StuartPlymouth wrote:I thought you were rather proud of your looks, Jamez.

He's got a really sexy voice you know. I'd be a bit disappointed if he turned out to be a fugly minger.

Chie wrote:He's got a really sexy voice you know.

I read that and my eyes dimmed just that little bit.

And my heart dimmed a little also... ah well. *scrawls more into Nini's big blackmail book*

Is it a ban on VGA resolution webcam pics making the place look untidy?