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Re: Vanillicon Proxy: Suggestion for more Privacy and Reliability
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Re: Vanillicon Proxy: Suggestion for more Privacy and Reliability
I guess there are two ways to provide your users with standard icons: a) use an online service like vanillicon or use some sort of identicon like library which generates the avatars on your own server. One advantage of online services is that generally you could have the same avatar at different places on the net without… -
Re: Vanillicon Proxy: Suggestion for more Privacy and Reliability
You're right, I should have mentioned this possibility in the list, too. However, I've discarded this approach immediately since it requires that every access to an avatar is processed by PHP. This is disadvantageous: * it hat negative effects on the performance (the PHP intepreter has to be started etc.) * it has negative… -
Re: Vanillicon Proxy: Suggestion for more Privacy and Reliability
@R_J That's a great idea. But in order to be compatible to vanillicon.com, this approach requires that vanillicon.com publishes the algorithm and the master SVG file (as far as I know, vanillicon isn't open source). I would appreciate that, because I would prefer a local avatar creation with a respective vanilla plugin.… -
Re: Vanillicon Proxy: Suggestion for more Privacy and Reliability
What's really great at the Vanillicons is that they are SVG. There might be around 16 different eyes, 16 different mouths and 16 different "heads". The tilt and the colors are no elements but mere style. So if you create a SVG with all existing elements in it, that file would be quite small. You only would have to load… -
Re: Vanillicon Proxy: Suggestion for more Privacy and Reliability
Thanks for the constructive feedback! Why would you need that? The images are static and don't change, so the only situation would be an erroneous transfer between vanillicon.com and the forum. But I thought about that, too. My proposal is to provide a button in the admin dashboard, in order to delete the full cache. I…
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