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Anthony
06-15-2006, 10:00 AM
Can we please allow remote linking of avatars.

It just makes it easier to keep using the same ones without re-uploading them over and over. Thank you for fixing this problem, Matt. [smilie=burgerking.:

Matt
06-15-2006, 11:30 AM
unfortunately, there's no default way to do this within vbulletin. i haven't seen any mod/hack to do it either, but if i come across it, i'll definitely look into it.

Anthony
06-15-2006, 11:35 AM
are you for real? Thats gay as shit.

Matt
06-15-2006, 11:39 AM
are you for real? Thats gay as shit.

yeah, i totally assumed it was a feature, until we were testing out vbulletin. i've searched their support forums and couldn't find a current mod/hack to allow it. sorry for the hassle, but uploading the avs to our server is the only option right now.

on a positive note, it prevents people from linking to slow sites or files that are too large, which slows the forums down.

Anthony
06-15-2006, 11:43 AM
yeah, but you would think a forum with this many features and tools would have that one covered.

Matt
06-15-2006, 11:47 AM
yeah, but you would think a forum with this many features and tools would have that one covered.

yeah, looking at the vbulletin forums, people have been asking about them for a while now. for whatever reason, they decided not to do it. *shrug*

there are some hacks for old versions of vbulletin that allow you to do it. if someone ever makes a new one for the latest version, we'll probably put it in.