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Farewell

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Letter Avatars 1.0.2

10 Oct 2018 Edited
#1
Letter Avatars lets you create Google-style default avatars using usernames' initial letters; give your board an elegant touch without being obtrusive or heavy on server's resources. Letter Avatars uses an external server – ui-avatars.com – to provide crisp dynamic images extracting user's username initials.



You have fine-grain control over the hue range, luminosity, font size, shape and letter case of avatars.

Avatars have an average load latency of 2 ms; you will not even notice them loading, and they will not block page rendering.

You decide how many letters you would like to display. 1 resembles Google the most, but 2 is usually the best choice for style and readability.

Whether if you choose dark or light luminosity backgrounds, the text's color will be automatically adjusted to ensure the best contrast possible.


Minimum requirements


MyBB 1.8.0
PHP 7.1

Installation


Upload Letter Avatars to your MyBB installation maintaining its folder structure integrity. Install and activate from the plugins manager.


This project is licensed under

MIT


A simple license with little to no use restrictions, except for author's crediting. Read the provided LICENSE file for more informations.

Permissions

Commercial use
Modification
Distribution
Private use
Limitations

Warranty
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honger 31 Jul 2020
#41
Is it possible to change the resolution of avatars? Despite of using 2:1 (125x250px) avatars, the plugin forces 75x75 resolution (in the inline styling) and I can't really find a way to change it.
Shade 31 Jul 2020
#42
Unfortunately no, ui-avatars.com only allows for 1:1 ratios.
Hüseyin Filiz 15 Oct 2020
#43
https://ui-avatars.com/api/?name=test&si...t-size=0.6

ui-avatars not working?
Hüseyin Filiz 15 Oct 2020
#44
Is there a solution?
Shade 15 Oct 2020
#45
Seems like their servers are adjusting, just wait it out a bit. Remember to clear your cache and try again in some hours. If the issue persists, let me know.
Hüseyin Filiz 15 Oct 2020
#46
@Shade I cleared the cache. The problem persists. Has anyone found a solution?
Shade 15 Oct 2020
#47
Seems like that particular background color (7f3ebc) is not supported. You can remove the user avatar or reassign avatars with the button in your ACP to solve.

Example of a different color working: https://ui-avatars.com/api/?name=test&si...t-size=0.6
Hüseyin Filiz 15 Oct 2020
#48
Randomize Letter Avatars.

The problem seems to be solved temporarily. The same problem persists with newly registered members.
Shade 15 Oct 2020
#49
I have no control over the server, I am not its owner. They must have changed something lately, I am sure they are aware of the issue since it's a high volume website. Be patient a little bit.