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I announce that I cease all development and activity in the programming universe indefinitely. My career has reached the turning point I was not expecting for at least another year, leaving me highly off guard and without laid-out plans for this hobby's continuity. I have begun a 5-year residency program in Neurosurgery which is clearly not compatible, time-wise, with programming.

I gave in all my passion for developing, and you gave me back your loyalty and trust, even when I did not deserve that much. Now it is the time for payback. I release all my present and past work as Open Source software, in the hope some talented developer will continue maintaining and expanding my vision of a modern, sleek forum software. The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.

I hereby thank Euan, kawaii, andrewjs18, Ben, Matt, Omar G., effone, Eric J., Devilshakerz, Wildcard, JordanMussi and all the other team members I have had the opportunity to work with when I was a MyBB team member. I thank Tomm M, my mentor, who inspired me to pick up coding with his piece-of-art plugins. And finally, I thank all of you MyBBoost subscribers who have helped me getting through my toughest university years economically.

Yours sincerely, Filippo

Avatars not displayed properly if using default avatars

Eldenroot

10 Sep 2016 Edited
#1
This issue is marked as solved
Another minor bug - there is no avatar shown in a popup dropdown menu when the author of the thread uses a default avatar. Just a blank image.

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Shade 25 Sep 2016 Edited
#2
This behavior depends on how the default avatar plugin you are using works. Ideally it should add a default avatar upon registration and register it to the database, which would work with QuickReferences. However, and it might be your case, if the plugin is adding default avatars when requested QuickReferences has no way to know if the user has a default avatar or not.

I can fix this partially by ensuring an avatar is always displayed, but beware that the default image will be not using external plugins (it will be a simple image, located in images/default_avatar.png which if you don't have you will need to upload).
Eldenroot 3 Oct 2016
#3
I dont use any plugin. Just default MyBB 1.8.x feature - it has an own picture for users without avatar uploaded
Shade 3 Oct 2016
#4
I didn't know MyBB 1.8 has a default avatar option built in. I will investigate.
Brenda 3 Oct 2016
#5
Yea it has a default avatar. /default_avatar.png.

However I use dvz random avatars, works really well.
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Eldenroot 8 Oct 2016
#6
Yes, DVZ random avatars works fine - it replaces default avatar by a random one.

However when a user use only default avatar -> no avatar is shown in a popup window.

@Shade - MyBB 1.8 applies to all users without their own avatar the default one (settings is located here: ACP->Profile options->Default avatar

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There is a mod (I havent tested it yet) - maybe it can fix the issue:
https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=375
Shade 8 Oct 2016
#7
Nope, that will not fix the issue. However I have fixed it in 1.2 and I will push the update as soon as possible. The only thing I am worried about is Unicode characters are not displayed properly, which would imply adding an utterly heavy external library to the package. I am actively looking for a better solution.
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