Osprey
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- Feb 18, 2005
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Edit: It's been pointed out that the ability to hide avatars in posts was added a couple of days ago. Oh well. You can still use the following instructions to hide them from forum view, though.
Edit #2: ...and the below no longer works for forum view. I'm really starting to dislike coming to this site.
This new board software sorely needs an ability to disable avatars, something which the old (and better, IMO) board software had for 15 years. In the meantime, since avatars were irritating me, I looked into force-disabling them. Since I accomplished it, I thought that I'd share.
Here's how:
Go into your adblocker's options, then to the custom filters (ex. "Add your own filters") section and add the following:
http://cdn1-www.hfboards.mandatory.com/data/avatars/*
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_s.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_l.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_m.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_male_s.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_female_s.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_male_m.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_female_m.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_male_l.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_female_l.png
The top one disables users' custom avatars and all of the rest disable the various default ones that come with the board software (for people who haven't set a custom avatar, like me). There might be a way for you to edit your filters in raw text so that you can just copy and paste all of those at once.
Having avatars disabled seems to greatly speed up loading of pages for me and also streamlines them so that posts and threads take up a bit less vertical room.
Edit #2: ...and the below no longer works for forum view. I'm really starting to dislike coming to this site.
This new board software sorely needs an ability to disable avatars, something which the old (and better, IMO) board software had for 15 years. In the meantime, since avatars were irritating me, I looked into force-disabling them. Since I accomplished it, I thought that I'd share.
Here's how:
Go into your adblocker's options, then to the custom filters (ex. "Add your own filters") section and add the following:
http://cdn1-www.hfboards.mandatory.com/data/avatars/*
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_s.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_l.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_m.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_male_s.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_female_s.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_male_m.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_female_m.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_male_l.png
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/styles/brivium/stylium/germanium/xenforo/avatars/avatar_female_l.png
The top one disables users' custom avatars and all of the rest disable the various default ones that come with the board software (for people who haven't set a custom avatar, like me). There might be a way for you to edit your filters in raw text so that you can just copy and paste all of those at once.
Having avatars disabled seems to greatly speed up loading of pages for me and also streamlines them so that posts and threads take up a bit less vertical room.
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