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I need a new thread to talk about profiles. These are new and raw so don't bombard me with all the things they don't do. I am only interested in what I can make them do without touching the existing code. I'm sure jelsoft will be changing them as they get all the complaints in. So don't think I don't listen just because I won't do anything about it. I am also over there putting my two cents in with all the other owners of vBulletin. I can guarantee you that.


Anyway, I figured out how to capture the click event for the tabs without touching their code. So I am going to add your Jumpgate data as an AJAX update when someone clicks the tab. It will probably check the age of the cash before it runs off to JOSSH to get the data though. Don't want happy clickers pissing off Istvan.

I think this time the data will stay for historical reference when a pilot goes TRI-C. Maybe tag it as archive data when that happens. It will also know when the owner of the account is viewing it so I may add AJAX calls in there to check statistics and evaluate progress. Thus eliminating the need for the pilot lister.

Things I don't like about the profiles.

The background image set up is rather simple.
The profile image album is public. Why?
All the user CSS is in the page causing the pages to load slower. I may develop a hack to save this as files for each user. If someone doesn't beat me to it.

Now that vBulletin 3.70 is Gold there will be lot's of mods coming out for the profiles. Hopefully something useful for us. I am already half finished with one to swap out the IM and status icons for custom styles. I just have to figure out how to change the one by the user name up top without touching the code.

My biggest challenge right now is coming up with a pilot data template that works for the data but still works with the user customizations. Anyone want to design the page to insert in there?

So any ideas? Complaints? Likes? PIE?

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Being the loving caring webmaster that I am I have broken all your member picture albums. I moved the storage from the database to the file system to cut back on some overhead and apparently there is no conversion utility yet. Silly me. Alas it will be better and more green for all of us.

The profile ones still show on your page so the pages aren't broken. But you will need to re-upload each pic and delete the old one. I would upload the profile pics, then redirect your page to use the new ones, then delete the old. No albums will show until you do this apparently. sigh

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never mind I fixed it.

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